Mask’s Target June 22 Tesla’s long-standing Robotaxi service launch

Tesla CEO Elon Musk I said His company will begin offering public vehicles on unmanned vehicles in Austin, Texas on June 22nd.

The date could change as Mask claimed Tesla was “ultra paranoid about safety.” Tesla Model Y SUV was discovered in recent weeks Tested mainly in Austin There is no driver in the seat. Bloomberg News previously reported that Tesla was. We are looking forward to the release on June 12th Of service.

Musk has spent years claiming Teslas can drive himself. In 2019, he insisted that Tesla would do so. Robotaxi service will be launched in 2020 It features unmanned vehicles of 1 million people. It never happened.

Instead, Tesla has spent years repeating software called Fully Autonomous Driving (FSD). The software is currently under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is allegedly involved in multiple crashes during low visibility conditions. Includes pedestrians being killed.

Musk claims that Tesla developed the FSD to a point where it would no longer have to be overseen. This new “unsupervised” version of Tesla’s FSD software is what powers Austin vehicles. and musk I insisted On Tuesday, “All Teslas coming out of our factory are available for unsupervised driving.”

However, these claims are being paid attention. According to Musk, a small vehicle fleet – about 10 ships to start from the beginning – Geofiend in the “safeest” area of ​​Austinaccording to the mask. Teslas is also able to run over and over again. Specific neighborhoods in southeast Austinperhaps collect data to create a smoother experience.

This is a major change in approach from the way Musk has discussed over the years about FSD being a general purpose autonomous driving solution that works everywhere without human supervision. Tesla’s process is much more similar to how Waymo, which currently runs a commercial robotax business in multiple US cities, is deploying services in new locations.

Musk’s claim that the new Tesla can drive unsupervised represents a major shift from his promise in 2016 that every car car has the necessary hardware. It will be completely automated. That was not true. Tesla has passed multiple versions of FSD hardware in its vehicles for several years since then. In January, Musk admitted that those millions of cars would need to be upgraded Runs the current software. That’s unknown Is such an upgrade possible?.