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CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that his company is now running a small number of its Robotaxi vehicles in Austin, Texas, without a human driver or safety supervisor on board.
“Just started Tesla Robotaxi drives in Austin with no safety monitor in the car,” Musk posted on X. “Congrats to the @Tesla_AI team!”
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of software, wrote in a separate post that the Austin Robotaxi service included, “a few unsupervised vehicles mixed in with the broader robotaxi fleet with safety monitors.” He said the ratio of driverless to supervised vehicles will increase over time in that market.
Tesla shares rose 4.2% on Thursday to close at $449.36.
