The company’s Tesla logo outside the Tilburg factory and delivery center.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk The automaker said on June 27, the automaker completed the delivery of its first driverless new car and was routed from a Y Model Y SUV from an apartment building in Austin, Texas.
The Tesla account on social network X is also owned by Musk. Shared a video Overnight, the Y-shaped Y crosses Austin’s public roads, including highways, driver’s seats or front passenger seats, were shown without humans.
Tesla didn’t say which version of the software and hardware was installed and used in the car shown in the clip – or when it will be used commercially for customers.
Modeling and Owner’s ManualAvailable on Tesla’s website, says that to use Tesla’s full autonomous driving (supervised) option (the most advanced, partially automated driving system available today), owners must put their hands on the steering wheel and be ready to take over the steering or braking.
The vehicles in Tesla video show no drivers on the highway, passing through residential streets and parking lots without drivers before they can arrive and stop to hand over to customers. The buyer was on the roadside in an apartment building where Tesla employees were heading side by side, with some sports logos decorated shirts. (Patt the curb red to indicate that it is a constant fire path.)
In 2016, Tesla shared an autonomous driving video called “painted black” which was staged in a way that exaggerated its autopilot capabilities. Later revealed.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Investigation is under investigation Tesla obtained due to possible safety flaws in its FSD system and recently sought more information about its Robotaxi debut after its car violated certain traffic rules.
Musk wrote in a post on Friday X: “The first The Tesla-type Y from the factory to every customer home, including the expressway, has been fully delivered independently, just one day! Congratulations to the @tesla_ai team, including software and AI chip design! ”
he Written, too“There is no one in the car at all, no remote operator at any time. Completely autonomous! To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fully autonomous drive, no one in the car or driving a car remotely on public highways.”
Musk’s claim to “first-first fully autonomous driving” on public highways is not accurate. letter– The Waymo, owned by Waymo, has operated commercial robot services in several cities in the United States and has been providing fully autonomous rides on the Phoenix Expressway Since 2024Since then, these rides have expanded these rides to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Ashok Elliswamy’s AI director at Tesla says Posts on X The automaker “actually chose a random customer who ordered the order of the y-type in the Austin area” to participate. He also said the delivered vehicles were “exactly the same as every model produced in the Tesla factory”.
Elliswamy also pointed out Posts on x Model y in driverless delivery spreads at a “maximum speed of 72 mph”. According to the Texas Department of Transportation website.
In addition, Tesla started a robot pilot program in Austin last weekend, involving 10 to 20 of the technology-equipped Y SUVs, which Tesla has hardly disclosed to the public.
The Tesla Robotaxi service is available only, and invites riders primarily influencers and analysts, many of whom generate revenue by publishing Tesla-Fan content on platforms like X and YouTube. The Tesla robotic vehicle runs with the human safety supervisor in the front passenger seat and is monitored remotely by employees at the operations center.
Since 2016 Musk There has always been hope that Tesla will soon be able to transform all its existing electric vehicles into fully automatic vehicles with simple, in-the-air software updates. In his master plan Part Deux, he outlines a future where every Tesla boss can add their cars to the “Tesla-shared fleet” by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app, allowing their cars to generate revenue for them as they sleep.
Musk says Tesla will have 1 million robots by 2020 in 2019 – This claim helped him raise $2 billion from institutional investors at the time.
Although Tesla has not fulfilled these promises so far, the driverless delivery in Texas this week has sparked the excitement of believers about Musk and his vision.
Meanwhile, Tesla is fighting a brand rebound in response to the CEO’s regular inflammatory political rhetoric, his support for the German far-right extremist party AFD and his work on the Trump administration.
Tesla’s sales fell year-on-year in major markets Europein part, the rebound in the first five months of 2025. The company also faces competition from electric vehicle manufacturers, especially Chinese brands such as Bider, Neo and Xiaomi, which offer more affordable and updated models.
Tesla is expected to disclose its second-quarter automobile production and delivery numbers on July 2.
