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Model Y cars are pictured during the opening ceremonial of the caller Tesla Gigafactory for electrical cars successful Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said connected Tuesday that his company's robotaxi work is "tentatively" acceptable to motorboat successful Austin, Texas, connected June 22.
In a post connected X, Musk indicated that he's flying from Los Angeles to Austin for the kickoff, which he'd antecedently said would beryllium sometime successful June. When a commenter asked erstwhile nationalist rides volition start, Musk said the existent program is for June 22, and that the archetypal thrust from the mill to a customer's location volition instrumentality spot connected June 28.
"We are being ace paranoid astir safety, truthful the day could shift," Musk wrote.
Earlier connected Tuesday, Musk shared a video connected X showing that Tesla was investigating driverless vehicles connected the roads of Austin without a quality information supervisor down the wheel. The eight-second clip showed the latest mentation of the Model Y SUV, painted achromatic with a achromatic "Robotaxi" graffiti-style logo painted connected it, navigating an intersection and pausing to let pedestrians to traverse a crosswalk.
Musk precocious told CNBC's David Faber that Tesla volition commencement with a precise tiny rollout, including astir 10 to 20 of its robotaxis, with a new, "unsupervised" mentation of the company's FSD oregon "Full Self-Driving" exertion installed. The tests volition impact the Model Y, not the futuristic looking CyberCab that Tesla plans to nutrient adjacent year.
Musk said Tesla volition "geofence" the service, limiting wherever the robotaxis tin initially operate, and that employees volition remotely show the fleet.
— CNBC's Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.
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