"The removal of the safety monitors will most likely ramp up the scrutiny on Tesla's ongoing testing in Austin, doubly so when the company starts offering rides in the empty cars. Tesla's small test fleet has been involved in at least seven crashes since June; few details are known about the accidents since the company aggressively redacts its reports to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration."
"Video of a totally empty Tesla Model Y SUV started spreading on social media over the weekend, and on Sunday, Musk confirmed his company was testing "with no occupants." Neither Musk nor Tesla has shared how quickly it plans to move to offer customer rides with no safety monitor. The company's own X account provided a hint in a post Sunday evening: "Slowly, then all at once." Tesla's head of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, wrote: "And so it begins!""
"Tesla started offering rides in Austin to hand-picked influencers and customers in June, with an employee in the passenger seat who could take over if the cars did anything unsafe. Those safety monitors moved to the driver's seat in September. The company has since ditched the wait list, and gradually expanded its service area to cover a large portion of the greater Austin metropolitan area. But its fleet size never grew to mor"
Just about six months after starting tests in Austin, Tesla is allowing Robotaxis to operate without a human safety monitor onboard. The removal of safety monitors advances the company toward launching a commercial Robotaxi service. CEO Elon Musk previously promised cars would become fully driverless with software updates, and the new tests position Tesla to compete with Waymo. Tesla's small test fleet has been involved in at least seven crashes since June, and the company redacts many details in NHTSA reports. Video showing an empty Model Y circulated on social media, and company posts signaled gradual rollout plans.
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