Everything we know about Tesla’s robotaxi launch in Austin

TeslaRobotaxi finally hit the streets this weekend, but the presentation may encounter some barricades.

Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company is expected to launch Robotaxis in Texas on June 22, and the first driverless journey to a customer house expected from the factory on June 28th.

Musk shared news about the temporary exit in an article on social media Platform x last week.

Here are what we know about Tesla activity.

When and where

The launch will include a limited number of Tesla vehicles on June 22nd in Austin. The first driving will be not Sibercab introduced in October, but in Model Y.

Access to vehicles and driving is only an invitation. Some impressive on social media reported Early access invites you to test the new service from Sunday.

Tesla fan and supporter Sawyer Merritt shared the details of the invitation Musk’s XSummarizing a few important features:

• Excursions to airports or airports are excluded
• Service may not be limited or not due to bad weather
• A Tesla Security Monitor will sit in the right passenger seat during the journey

Driving is limited to a geographical region of the city and remote drives will monitor as spare.

Musk, CNBC’den David Faber’e Robotaxis’in only Austin’in parts of the company will “think that the safest” and Tesla’nın remote operation centers will “watch” said.

Can Musk fulfill promises?

For a long time, Musk has made a driverless robotaxi and oppressed to fulfill his promises. At an early date like 2019, Musk said that Robotaxis was “very sure” that he would start in 2020.

In May, Musk confirmed his plans to launch the service in Austin this month and then launched for Los Angeles and San Francisco. At that time, Musk said that the service would start with 10 vehicles circulating Austin.

“It is cautious for us to start with a small number, that things go well and then scaled.” He said.

Wall Street analysts, such as Dan Ives from Wedbush, believe that Robotaxis will start the “autonomous gold age for Tesla” that the market value can strengthen more than $ 2 trillion by the end of next year.

This is twice the market value from the closing of Wednesday.

“There will be many mishaps … But considering the globally unique scale and scope, we believe Tesla has the opportunity to have the autonomous market and have the opportunity to have other automobile players in both the US and the world.”

Tesla is once seen as a self -driving technology leader, now a laggard, AlphabetWaymo in the USA

Waymo said that he reached 10 million trips in May and he already runs a commercial robotaxi fleet throughout the US and also asks for permission to test autonomous vehicles with a human security driver in New York.

Regulatory barriers and opposition

Tesla faces a bumpy way full of regulatory barriers and the return of MPs.

On Wednesday, a group Democratic deputies In Texas, Tesla urged the Robotaxi launch until September 1, to remove a new slave of Texas’s self -exercise laws.

“We believe that this is for the benefit of the creation of both public security and public transportation operations,” Tesla’s field quality director Eddie Gates said. He said. They also asked for a detailed information showing that Tesla would be in accordance with the new law if it continued with the launch.

Public security defenders protested the launch in Austin at the beginning of this month.

A group known as Dawn Project, a technology security organization that criticizes Tesla’s autonomous abilities, showed a Tesla Model Y with a stopped school bus and a child -sized mannequin. The group said that the software reads the elements on the road incorrectly.

Dawn Project founder Dan O’dowd said CNBC’s “Squawk on the street” on Friday.

O’dowd, who also runs Green Hills Software, a company that sells technology to its competitors, said CNBC is “close to anywhere” and shouldn’t go to the streets.

“This software doesn’t know how to recognize a school bus,” he said.

According to the data pursued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Tesla’s FSD features containing a standard FSD or FSD control contains automatic steering and parking, but it is connected to accidents and deaths.

Tesla under fire

Tesla’s brand has taken several hit by decreasing in sales and reputation damage due to Musk’s political activities in recent months.

Musk was a great supporter of President Donald Trump, he became a hundred -millions of re -selection campaign, and then pioneered government productivity efforts, which aimed to reduce costs. At the end of May, he left the episode.

Musk’s close ties with Trump caused the owners to join the brand, and in some cases it caused violence with the targeted showrooms and vehicles in arson and vandalism attacks.

However, after the relationship between Musk and Trump brought with Teh Titan’s expenditure invoice on the President’s X, it appeared at the beginning of this month and led to a harsh sale in the stock. Later, he apologized for social media broadcasts and said that some were “too far”.

The home manufacturer also sees a global sales decline in key markets such as the US and Europe. While vehicle sales in Europe tank 49% one year ago in April, global first quarter deliveries fell by 13%.

The decline was dependent on a combination of Musk’s politics and increasing competition in the home market.

– Lora Kolodny from CNBC contributed to this report.