We still know almost nothing about Tesla’s robotaxi service

In bicycles and holes, we started getting a better idea of ​​what Tesla’s Robotaxi will seem to be launched in Austin, Texas, within a few weeks. But it is almost not enough to look at what is at stake.

The company is considering on June 12 as a possible date for the launch of the Robotaxi service in Austin, Bloomberg Reports – although this date can change. Tesla has not yet announced an appointment, and it has not been explained by those who will be able to reach the vehicles.

The news comes at a time when CEO Elon Musk said that the company started testing vehicles without safety drivers.

“During the past few days, Tesla has been testing self -driving (no one in the driver’s seat) in the public streets of Austin without accidents,” Musk said at X. “A month before the specified date.

But before Musk gives a lot of credit for this teacher, keep in mind that we still know how this service works. Tesla has never been proven publicly that its vehicles could work completely without a driver, without the human safety driver behind the wheel, on public roads. We have seen them leading themselves within the borders of Tesla Factory, an environment that the company has completely controlled and there is no place near the active city street with pedestrians, bikers and other weak road users.

We know that Tesla plans to launch the service using 10-20 Y. It seems very likely, given that Ashok Eluswamy, Autopilot Vice president and AI said in a recent profit call that they would get “audio inputs” so that they can capture sirens from emergency vehicles, for example.

These vehicles will also be greatly activated, which means that there will be a distance operator watching vehicles through their embedded cameras, ready to control if a problem appears. But keep in mind that this came from a research note published by Morgan Stanley Adam Jonas, not from Tesla itself. Jonas also said that the service will be an invitation only at the launch. So, unless you are an investor in Tesla, or influencing social media with great followers, or a personal friend close to Eileon Musk, do not make any immediate plans to travel to Austin next month.

Tesla in self -driving service is a great departure from how Robotaxi companies usually deal with these types of launch operations. Waymo, which is worth noting runs the Robotaxi service available to the public in the United States, tests its vehicles without a driver for weeks, and sometimes months, before opening it to the audience. And even though, the company only allows certain people, usually from a waiting menu, to ride in its cars.

But before that, Waymo spends months in driving around the city, collecting data around the streets of streets and driving habits for other drivers. Sometimes this information is used to launch a commercial robotics service; At other times, the data is fed on the central computer for general improvements to the automated driving program.

Waymo is also relatively transparent about its process. Before the launch of a roboti service in Phoenix, Arizona, the company invited journalists from dozens of outlets to the test facility in Castle, California, allowing them to ride vehicles in a closed path. Waymo also released her safety, and published many blog publications about her safety approach, and published a handful of studies reviewed by the peer, which explains how its technology routinely behaves than human drivers.

Tesla, on the other hand, has not been much less than the safety of its cars outside the noise data for its CEO. Even the federal government, which has recently had a semi -Akassi member as part of DOGE, has a lot of questions about imminent launch. The National Road Traffic Safety Administration, which operates under the US Department of Transport, has recently sent a camel of questions, including the number of vehicles, and its ability to work in bad weather conditions, and what TESLA owners can reach the supposed technology without a driver.

One of the ongoing concerns of NHTSA is that Tesla is based on the Robotaxi service on the Full Driving Assist (FSD). The drivers assistance system in the first generation of Tesla, Autopilot, was linked to hundreds of non -fatal accidents and 51 deaths reported from October 2024. At least two of these deaths have been linked to FSD. NHTSA is investigating these incidents for several years so far.

Self-driving technology is designed on a lot of things-cameras, software, artificial intelligence, engineering, possibility-but the success of any general robotics service will decrease in the end. Do people trust that the company is building technology enough to enter a vehicle without anyone in the front seat? Many public opinion polls have shown low support for autonomous vehicles over the years and the high extensive hostility towards technology.

Moreover, the brand problems in Tesla are involved in the focus. It is clear that the company is struggling under the yoke of musk and its difficult role to the right. It has turned his wealth on the Internet, his support for extreme right -wing political parties, and his fascist gestures in Trump’s marches, all the brand Tesla toxic. A recent survey study cohesion of the reputation of the major companies in the Tesla 95 classification, with a decrease from the eighth -rating brand four years ago.

Tesla will always have its fans – many of them fill my box box with the success of the company’s success in the future as well as personal insults to dare to question the leadership of Musk – but it will take more than a few players to create successful robotics work. Especially we know a little.