
Tesla completes first driverless delivery to Austin resident
- by Austin American-Statesman
- Jun 30, 2025
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Tesla's X account posted a video of the delivery, showing the vehicle—with no passengers in the driver’s or front passenger’s seat—navigating from the Tesla Gigafactory at 1 Tesla Rd., east of State Highway 130. The car drove on highways, through residential streets, and around parking lots before arriving at Jose's apartment about 30 minutes later. It parked in a no-stop fire lane to meet Jose and the team. According to Elluswamy, the vehicle reached a max speed of 72 mph during the trip.
Since 2016, Musk has promised that Tesla will soon lead the autonomous vehicle market as all of its vehicles would be driverless. In 2019, he said Tesla would have one million robotaxis on the road by 2020, a feat he did not achieve as Tesla's autonomous robotaxi service launched in Austin just this month.
The service is currently available to a select group of invitees, primarily Tesla influencers and analysts who earn income through Tesla-related social media content. The robotaxis operate within a restricted area in Austin, bounded by East Riverside Drive and State Highway 71 to the north and south, and by State Highway 183 and State Highway Loop 1 to the east and west. A Tesla employee sits in the front passenger seat as a safety supervisor, while the vehicles are also monitored remotely by staff at an operations center.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still investigating Tesla's FSD systems, recently asking for more information into the technology after several of the company's Austin robotaxis were seen violating traffic laws in videos posted to social media.
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