- Tesla has made its FSD Supervised ride-hailing service available to some employees.
- For now, only testers in Austin and San Francisco can try the service.
- The company says it’s already completed 1.5k trips and 15k miles of driving.
Tesla just took a big step forward toward bringing robotaxis to the public. Strangely, it didn’t come with a bunch of fanfare from its CEO either. Instead, the company quietly confirmed on X that it has made its ride-hailing service available to some employees.
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“FSD Supervised ride-hailing service is live for an early set of employees in Austin & San Francisco Bay Area,” read the post. Those cities are both very important for Tesla as the brand has facilities in each. A short video posted along with the announcement tells us a bit more about how it works.
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A rideshare app allows users to click a big button that simply says “Pick Me Up.” Once the car arrives, users get a notification and a reminder to buckle up in the car. Cybertruck-styled font shows a new script that calls the service “Robotaxi.” The video seems to indicate that, for now, a human safety driver is in the driver’s seat during the testing.
Once in the car, it appears riders get a message on the rear-seat infotainment system to confirm their name, address, and arrival time. Riders click a button in the car that says “Start Ride,” and off goes the car. According to Tesla, it’s already completed 1.5k trips and 15k miles of driving.
Interestingly, the Robotaxi nomenclature helps us understand an important point. The Cybercab refers to the vehicle, and Robotaxi is a service that can leverage more of Tesla’s models. No doubt, they’ll share software and functionality to a degree.
Perhaps the biggest surprise here isn’t that this is happening but that it’s seemingly on time. Elon Musk has famously been overly optimistic about true Level 5 driving tech. This time, it seems like his promise that a paid version of this service will go live in June could end up coming true. Even then, though, we expect a full-scale rollout to take a good long while.
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