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Nearly six months after launching a limited Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas with safety drivers in the car, the company says it’s testing driverless vehicles in the city without humans on board.
“Testing is underway with no occupants in the car,” CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post on his social network X over the weekend.
For more than a decade, Musk has been promising Tesla investors and customers that the company’s electric vehicles will soon be upgradable to self-driving cars, capable of serving as unmanned robotaxis, or of completing a cross-country trip without any human intervention.
While that still hasn’t happened, the company unveiled a Robotaxi-branded ridehail app and service in Austin in June, and a separate car service in the San Francisco Bay Area soon after.
