A Tesla Inc. Robotaxi in the Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, on June 22, 2025.
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TeslaThe -Y -Y -Robotaxi model finally went to the street this weekend and sent the shares of the electric vehicle manufacturer by 10%on Monday.
The EV giant made autonomous trips in Austin, Texas on Sunday, and only opened the service by inviting a limited number of drivers.
The invited included long-time Tesla fans, promoters and shareholders, of whom many income from the publication of Tesla and Musk-related social media content on platforms such as X and YouTube.
In a post in his social network X, CEO Elon Musk said that customers calculated a flat fee of $ 4.20 per trip.
“Super congratulations to the @Sla_ai -software and chip design teams for a successful @robotaxi start !! Highlight of a decade of hard work. Both the AI chip and the software teams were built in Tesla from scratch,” he said in a contribution.
A passenger in Teslas Early Access program for the model -y -robotaxis wrote to X that they carried out 11 trips with the service with “zero problems”. Musk has released numerous encounters with the services again.
Other street users and researchers found that the robot taxis violated traffic rules in Austin.
The Verge reported that a Tesla model -y -Y -Robotaxi briefly drove a wrong path in Austin. The Tesla-critical author Ed Nestermeyer announced a video by Austin, in which a Tesla robotaxi brakes hard in the middle of traffic in the middle of traffic to “inpatient police vehicles outside of his road”.
Musk has promised investors a Tesla Robotaxi fleet for a long time that has increased the pressure in recent months.
Once considered a pioneer, Tesla is now trying to catch up alphabet'S Waymo in the west and Chinese competitor, including Baidus Apollo Go, Weride and Pony.ai. Waymo has reported that it now delivers more than 250,000 commercial driverless trips a week and has exceeded 10 million trips last month. Apollo Go reported that it exceeded 11 million trips.
Musk said David Faber from CNBC last month that Tesla should have hundreds of thousands in the United States in the United States by the end of next year, if not over a million “self -driving cars in the United States. In May, Musk announced plans for the first time to start the service in Austin. Later debuts for Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Tesla got started and rose from a group of democratic legislators in Texas and lawyers for public security, who asked the company to delay the debut.
The company has not yet published the systems that are known unattended as FSD owner on non -outstanding Tesla owners.
Tesla sells its new electric vehicles with partially automated driving systems, which are marketed as standard autopilots and Premium -FSD -supervised systems. This includes characteristics such as automatic track perception and navigation and, according to data, have been associated with accidents, including deaths, which were pursued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
– Lora Kolodny from CNBC has contributed to the reporting.
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