Tesla celebrated historic first on Friday when a new model Y left the Austin and-no one in the vehicle-returned to the client waiting for half an hour.
Already the second turning point this week after Commercial deployment From his Robotix service, it marks an early birthday gift for CEO Elon Musk. The entrepreneur had promised Tesla supporters for June 28, which is by accident when he turns 54 years old.
“The first fully autonomous delivery of the Tesla Y model from the factory to the Customer Home, including the highways, was completed the day before,” Musk said. Posted the Friday. “There were no people in the car at all and there were no remote operators at any time. Completely autonomous.”
Since this is entirely without Supervisory Driving (FSD) in its first practical brand application, Tesla uploaded a video as proof. Documents from different angles at an approximately 30-minute drive from the factory in Austin to Blvd. 1515 S. Lamar. The city center, where its new owner conquered.
Whether this delivery is only a one -time test or part of a wider distribution plan remains unclear. Although in theory it can save at least part of the $ 1,390 destination destination Tesla, he runs the risk of scratching the vehicle in transit – and even just arriving to the client dirty, looking as it was just through a rainstorm.
The first time a car was delivered to its owner! https://t.co/xgzbrdamix– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 28, 2025
In addition, the range of the Y Model is maximized by official 357 miles with real world tests indicating a lower range. Unless he can drive from one Tesla service center to another so that the employee can fill it, range would limit him to a radius in Texas.
Finally, terrain regulations could be completely illegal because state governments are currently determined under what conditions autonomous vehicles, if they can drive on their roads at all.
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In the case of Austin, for example, city authorities said Wealth They had no word in what Musk’s company did.
“Tesla has made the city aware of their intention to deliver a fully autonomous vehicle,” a spokesman for the state capital, Texas, said. “While the city has no authority to regulate these vehicles, we will continue to work with the company to provide feedback if public security problems arise.”
Autonomous delivery has also caused skepticism about whether Tesla can mislead people to believe that technology is stronger than it really is. Some pointed to the fact that the video was not live, but was set later.
In addition, the Robotaxi service that started operating at Austin on Sunday still works only in certain hours, does not drive to the airport and has a security monitor on the front passenger seat at any time.
First autonomous car delivery in the world!
This Tesla rode from Gigafactive Texas to the home of its new owner of 30 min. pic.twitter.com/wfsiaeu6oq– Tesla (@tesla) June 28, 2025
In addition, the weather is advantageous, as Musk was trying to turn the investor’s focus to divert his Robotaxi technology and away from his fight business on selling EV.
This next week, Tesla is expected to announce figures of global production and delivery in the second quarter, which show deliveries from 14% to 383,000 vehicles, according to Medium assessment Outside the company’s investor relations team.
While several skeptics are obliged to remain untrustworthy no matter what the suspicion is rooted in part in the experience.
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Almost nine years ago, Tesla published a similar demonstration when he released the video “Taict It Black”. He claimed that the vehicle was driving completely independently and the man behind the wheel was not even there to monitor for safety.
“The face of the driver’s seat is only for legal reasons,” the video released in October 2016 said. “He does nothing. The car is driving alone.”
No. Literally chose a random client who ordered Model Y in the Austin area. The vehicle is exactly the same as any model y produced at the Tesla factory. June 28, 2025
AI director of AI of Tesla, Ashok Eluswami, later testified in A. Oath deposit The footage was wasn’t supposed to be accurate representation of technology. Both the video and the posting of the blog ever deleted completely from Tesla’s page, but thanks to YouTube and web -archives are still that can be seen.
There was also another, recent example. In October 2024, Musk showed prototype robots that communicate with human guests at an event without telling someone who were Tele-driven from a distance by people.
Tesla did not respond to the commentary request from Wealth.
But Eluswami, who has climbed to the rows In Tesla’s operation of the 2016 video, he denied fraud with the video for a self -driving on Friday.
“Literally selected a random client who ordered Model Y in the Austin area. The vehicle is exactly the same as any model y produced at the Tesla factory, he answered a question of x.
