Another self-driving car service is coming to Texas. Not long after Waymo started offering robotaxi rides to select Austinites, Tesla announced plans to put its own cars on the road with a fleet of vehicles set to launch in Austin in June.

Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those in the car as a top priority,” Musk said.

While there are really no truly autonomous vehicles in the world, Tesla may be inching closer to making this dream a reality if comments from Elon Musk are to be believed. The billionaire CEO made some intriguing announcements during the automaker’s Q4 2024 earnings webcast on January 29.

The claim of the vehicles driving around, carrying passengers with no driver behind the wheel by June borders on ridiculous. The numbers just don't back it up

Elon Musk said today that Tesla will launch “unsupervised full self-driving in Austin as a paid service” in June.

Our collective eyebrows raised when Elon Musk said self-driving vehicles were coming to Austin this week. Yes, really. Here is senior reporter Sean O’Kane’s article detailing Musk’s claims, which he made during Tesla’s Q4 earnings call.

Elon Musk said Tesla will begin launching unsupervised self-driving models in Austin, Texas by June and several other U.S. cities by the end of 2025.

Tesla will introduce a paid autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Elon Musk said during an earnings call discussing the automaker's financial results for 2024. As TechCrunch reports, he said the company will use cars with no human driver behind the wheel and with the unsupervised version of its Full Self-Driving software,