Tesla logo outside the center and delivery center of Tilburg.
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Tesla Entire Elone musk He said that the automrisa finished his first driver’s delivery of a new car buyer, a rutile model and SUV from Austin’s company, Texas, Gigafatona in residential building during 27. June.
Tesla Account on the Social Network X, which is also owned by musk, shared video Overnight shows the model and crossing public roads in Austin, including highways, without a man in a driver’s seat or passenger car seat.
Tesla did not say which version of its software and hardware is installed and used in the car shown in the recording – or if and when this technology will be commercially available to its customers.
To model and Handbook for ownersAvailable on Tesla’s website, it is to use the municipal self-supporting (supervised) – which is a partially automated company that are available today – owners must hold hands on wheels and remain ready to control the steering or braking at any time.
The vehicle in Tesla’s video is shown by the work without driver on the highway, passing through residential streets and around the parking lot before arrival and stop it to the customer. The buyer was waiting for a curb in a residential building, with Tesla employees, some sports logos. (The curb is colored in red, indicating that it is a non-stop fire.)
In 2016, Tesla shared videos for the autopilot that has seen – known as the “color on black” – which was staged in a way that exaggerated its cars, deposits later discovered.
National Transport Security Administration (NHTSA) investigates Tesla due to possible security damage in their FSD systems, and recently asked for more information about her debut robotaki after his cars were seen violating some traffic rules.
In posts on X Friday, the musk wrote: “First Fully autonomous delivery of tesline models and from the factory in the customer in the entire city, including highways, the day before the schedule was completed !! Congratulations @ Tesla_ai, both software and ai chip designs! “
He He also wrote“There were no people in the car at all and there were no remote control operators at any time. Fully autonomous! This is the first fully autonomous drive without people in a car or remotely drive a car on the public highway.”
Musk’s claim about “Firstly Fully Autonomous Drive” on the public highway was not true. Alphabet-Open Vaimo, which already work commercial roboters services in several American cities, offers employees completely autonomous driving on Phoenix highways From 2024. YearsAnd since then, it was expanding that driving towards Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Head AI in Tesla, Ashok Elluswami, he said in Posts on X If the car manufacturer was “literally chosen a random customer who ordered the model and in the Austin area” to participate. He also said that the delivered vehicle was “exactly the same as each model and manufactured in Tesla’s factory”.
Elluswami also noticed Post on x that the model and in delivery without driver traveled at a maximum speed of 72 mph. ” Most highways in Texas have a maximum speed limit of 70 miles per hour, according to the Texas Department website.
Separately, Tesla started a pilot robotaki program in Austin last week, which included 10 to 20 of its IV models, equipped with technology, which the Tesla discovered a small public a bit.
Service Tesla Robotaki is only available for choosing, called rids that were mainly influenced and analysts, many of which generate income by publishing the contents of the tesla fan on platforms as well as KS and YouTube. Tesla robotaki vehicles located with a supervisor for human safety on the front passenger seat and distance was called the operational center employees.
Since 2016. years, Musk It promises that Tesla will soon be able to turn all its existing EVS into fully autonomous vehicles with a simple, exceedingly updating the air software. In his master plan, part of Deuka presented the future where every owner of Tesla could add his car to the “Tesla common fleet by” enabling their car to create revenue for them.
In 2019. Musk said Tesla would have a million robotaxi on the way to 2020. Years “The request helped him raise $ 2 billion from institutional investors at that time.
While Tesla has not fulfilled that promises so far, delivery without driver in Texas this week caused excitement among faiths in Musk and his vision.
Meanwhile, Tesla fights the return mark in response to CEOs often flammable political rhetoric, his approval of German Daleed right extremist party and his work for Trump administration.
Tesla sales refused a processed year in key markets, especially in full EuropeIn the first five months of 2025. partly as a result of that return. The company also faces increased competition of EV producers, especially Chinese brands, such as bid, NIO and Xiaoms, offering more accessible and newer models.
Tesla is expected to delay that 2. July paragraphs its vehicle production and delivery numbers and delivery.
