Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call that it plans to launch its first unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) service in Austin, Texas, in June 2025. This will mark Tesla’s first deployment of a driverless service on public roads globally.
The announcement follows the unveiling of Tesla’s Robotaxi Cybercab in October 2024, when the company outlined plans to introduce driverless rides in Texas and California by 2025.
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Musk explained that Austin was selected as the initial location to allow Tesla to “dip its toe in the water” and ensure the safety and reliability of the technology before expanding the service to other cities.
“We want to prove to ourselves and prove to regulators that the vehicles are unequivocally safer in autonomous mode than not,” Musk said during the earnings call. “We’re not far off. Like, low single-digit months.”
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Tesla plans to expand the unsupervised FSD service to additional cities by the end of 2025, contingent on confirming that the technology significantly reduces the risk of injury compared to human-driven vehicles.
The company has been in discussions with the City of Austin since December 2024 regarding the operation of a Robotaxi fleet.