Tesla First Delivery Without Driver New Car to Customer

Tesla CEO Elon Musk He said the car manufacturer had completed his first delivery without a new car to a customer, directing Model Y SUV from Austin, Texas, Gigafactory to an apartment building in the area on June 27.

Tesla’s account in Social Network X, which is also owned by Musk, shared a video Overnight showing the model of the public roads in Austin, including the highways, without a person in the driver’s seat or the front passenger seat of the car.

Tesla did not say which version of his software and hardware was installed and used in the car shown in the video – or if and when this technology would be available on the commercial network of its customers.

To model and Owner’s guideIt is available on the Tesla website, it says that in order to use the full option to drive Tesla self-driving, which is the most modern, partially automated driving system, available today-owners have to hold their hands on the wheel and remain ready to take the handlebar or stop at any time.

The vehicle in Tesla’s video was shown working without a highway driver, passing through residential streets and around parking lots before arriving and stopping for a customer. The buyer was waiting from the curb in a residential building with Tesla employees, some sports logo-emplated shirts. (The curb is painted in red, indicating that it is a non-stop fire lane.)

In 2016, Tesla shared a video with the autopilot-known as the video “Paint It Black”-which was placed in a way that exaggerated its self-driving capabilities, delayed deposits laterS

National Movement Safety Administration on Highways (NHTSA) investigates Tesla over possible safety defects in their FSD systems and recently sought more information from the company about its Robotaxi debut after its cars were seen to break some traffic rules.

In posts on X on Friday, Musk wrote: “First Fully autonomous delivery of Tesla Model Y from factory to customer’s home throughout the city, including highways, it was just finished the day before the graphics !! Congratulations to the teams of @tesla_ai, both software and AI Chip Design! “

He also wrote“There were no people in the car at all and there were no remote operators who control. Fully autonomous!

Musk’s statement about the “first completely autonomous driving” on a public highway was not accurate. Alphabet-Created Waymo, already working with commercial robotaxes in many cities in the United States, offers employees fully autonomous rides on the Phoenix highways Since 2024And since then he has expanded these rides to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

AI’s leader at Tesla, said Ashok Elusmeni, said in Posts on x that the carmaker “literally chose a casual customer who ordered model Y in the Austin area to participate. He also said that the vehicle delivered was “exactly the same as any model Y manufactured at the Tesla factory.”

Elluswamy also scored in Post that the Y model of delivery without a driver traveled “at a top speed of 72 miles / h.” Most highways in Texas have a maximum speed limit of 70 miles per hour, according to the Texas Department of Transport WebsiteS

Separately, Tesla launched Robotaxi’s pilot program in Austin last weekend, including 10 to 20 of its Model Y SUVs, equipped with a technology that Tesla revealed a little about the public.

The Tesla Robotaxi service is only available for choice, invited riders who were mostly influential and analysts, many of whom generate income by posting Tesla-Fan content on platforms such as X and YouTube. Tesla Robotaxi’s vehicles are moving with a human safety manager aboard the front passenger seat and being controlled remotely by employees at the Operations Center.

Since 2016, Musk It promises that Tesla will soon be able to turn all its existing EVs into fully autonomous vehicles with a simple update of the software on the air. In his master plan, part Deux, he outlined a future in which every Tesla owner will be able to add his car to “Tesla Shared Fleet only by touching a button in the Tesla Phone app, which allows his car to generate income for them while they sleep.

In 2019, Musk said Tesla will have 1 million robotaxis on the road by 2020. – a claim that helped him raise $ 2 billion at that time from institutional investors.

While Tesla has not fulfilled these promises so far, delivery without a Texas driver this week has caused excitement among believers in Musk and his vision.

Meanwhile, Tesla is fighting the brand’s reaction in response to the frequent political rhetoric of the Executive Director, his approvals of the far -right extremist party of Germany and his work for the Trump administration.

Tesla sales have decreased during the year in key markets, especially all the time EuropeIn the first five months of 2025, partly as a result of this twist. The company also faces increased competition from EV manufacturers, especially Chinese brands such as BYD, NIO and Xiaomi, offering more accessible and more new models.

Tesla is expected to disclose the number for the production and delivery of vehicles for the second quarter on July 2.