AI illustration: Sleep in your car, wake at your destination, in many US cities by end of 2025
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Elon Musk promised Sleep in your car and wake at your destination in many US cities by end of 2025 by the end of 2025. The deadline passed and it didn't happen.

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“The acid test is, can you go to sleep in your car and wake up in your destination and I'm confident that will be available in many cities in the US by the end of this year.”
— Elon Musk · Apr 22, 2025 · Tesla Q1 2025 earnings call, Apr 22 2025 (The Guardian) ↗
What actually happened

Musk was confident that by end of 2025 people in many US cities could sleep in their car and wake at their destination. At year end Tesla's consumer FSD was still supervised, and its ride service ran only in Austin and the Bay Area. InsideEVs — Tesla's 2025 robotaxi promises fall flat ↗

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Apr 22, 2025
The promise: “The acid test is, can you go to sleep in your car and wake up in your destination and I'm confident that will be available in many cities in the US by the end of this year.” · Tesla Q1 2025 earnings call, Apr 22 2025 (The Guardian) ↗
Dec 31, 2025
Deadline passed. Musk was confident that by end of 2025 people in many US cities could sleep in their car and wake at their destination. At year end Tesla's consumer FSD was still supervised, and its ride service ran only in Austin and the Bay Area. InsideEVs — Tesla's 2025 robotaxi promises fall flat ↗
Today · Oct 12, 2026
Status: Missed · 285 days past due. Never happened.

On Tesla's April 2025 earnings call Elon Musk said the acid test was whether you can go to sleep in your car and wake up at your destination, and that he was confident it would be available in many US cities by the end of 2025.

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