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Elon Musk Celebrates As Tesla Car Self Drives To New Owner's Home; Internet Jibes 'Google Did It Before With Waymo'
Tesla delivered its first autonomous delivery of an EV self-driving car from Gigafactory to its new owner without cargo or the buyer dropping to the showroom. Sharing a clip of the EV self-driving to the owner's location, Tesla tweeted, "World's first autonomous delivery of a car!" It added, "This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30 min away—crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner."
Tesla also shared the pictures of the owner posing with their brand-new EV parked outside their home in Texas.
Euphoric Elon Musk reacted to the company's achievement, remarking, "The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways, was just completed a day ahead of schedule!!"
Musk further congratulated the "Tesla AI teams, both software & AI chip design!" The billionaire noted, "There were no people in the car at all and no remote operators in control at any point. FULLY autonomous!"
He further claimed, "To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fully autonomous drive with no people in the car or remotely operating the car on a public highway."
Tesla's AI techie Ashok Elluswamy reacted to his boss's tweet stating the speed of the EV, "Yup! Max speed was 72 mph." Musk replied to the tweet, stating, "Zippy."
Tesla has also recently launched Robotaxi in Austin in a geofenced area. The autonomous ride hailing service by the EV giant will soon roll out for the general public.
Meanwhile, here's how the netizens are reacting to Tesla's self-delivery of vehicles, with some praise, and some skepticism. One user remarked, "Elon is now shipping things ahead of schedule " Another user quipped, "A little spooky…" "lmao bro waymo does this daily," wrote a third user. Yet another commented, "Waymo, known as Google self-driving did this in 2012, but I'm pretty sure there are enough gullible people who will believe your lies."
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Musk Launches Tesla AI Robotaxi In Austin With Flat Fees Under $5
FILE-A Tesla Inc. Robotaxi on Oltorf Street in Austin, Texas, US, on Sunday, June 22, 2025. (Tim Goessman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The burgeoning self-driving taxi industry signed on a new player this weekend as Tesla officially debuted its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas on Sunday.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on X the Tesla AI robotaxi launch began in Austin on Sunday afternoon with customers paying a $4.20 flat fee.
Ahead of the launch, CNBC reported the company would operate invite-only robotaxi rides, operated by a few Model Ys, within a geofenced area of Austin, according to CNBC.
There were expected to be "safety monitors" with the vehicles, Electrek reported, citing invitations.
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"Super congratulations to the @Tesla_AI software & chip design teams on a successful @Robotaxi launch!!" Musk wrote Sunday afternoon in an X post. "Culmination of a decade of hard work. Both the AI chip and software teams were built from scratch within Tesla."
Tesla reposted some videos shared by people who said they used the company's robotaxi service during the launch.
The electric vehicle maker's stock was up over 10% as of midday Monday in the wake of the service's debut.
With the new debut, FOX Business takes a look at Tesla's robotaxi plans and the operations of two other big names in the industry in the U.S.
TeslaTesla's entry into robotaxi services has been long awaited by investors and fans.
While the initial rollout will reportedly use Model Ys, the company has a CyberCab sedan with no steering wheel or pedals in the pipeline.
Tesla said in its first-quarter shareholder deck that volume production of the Cybercab is expected to begin in 2026.
Musk unveiled the CyberCab and a planned Robovan designed to carry more passengers during an event in October. At the time, he said the CyberCab had a price tag of more than $30,000, FOX Business previously reported.
The billionaire Tesla CEO has indicated in past earnings calls that Tesla owners will be able to allow their vehicles to be part of the robotaxi fleet when they don't need them.
He has his sights set on introducing Tesla's robotaxi service to Los Angeles and San Francisco after Austin, CNBC reported.
In April, Musk predicted the robotaxi service will "move the financial needle in a significant way" for the company, "probably around the middle of next year, second half of next year."
WaymoWaymo got its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, subsequently turned into a subsidiary in 2016.
The autonomous ride-hailing company offers driverless rides in four cities — Phoenix, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Austin — with Atlanta, Miami and Washington, D.C., slated to get the service next year. The service in the nation's capital will be contingent upon the city council and mayor agreeing to overturn a law that bans autonomous vehicles.
In early May, Waymo said it "provides more than 250,000 paid trips each week" and had over 1,500 vehicles in the four cities where its service is live.
The company said Tuesday in an X post it was expanding its service areas this week in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
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Waymo is also looking to return to New York City, announcing in another X post it has "applied for a @NYC_DOT permit to drive autonomously with a specialist behind the wheel while we're in the city" and was "advocating for changes to state law to allow us to bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to the city one day."
The company uses electric Jaguar I-PACE vehicles.
Waymo told FOX Business that "each generation of our autonomous driving technology, including our current fifth generation and the upcoming sixth generation, delivers improved capabilities and performance at a fraction of the cost of the previous system."
ZooxZoox, owned by Amazon, has purpose-built robotaxis and a testing fleet.
Its purpose-built robotaxis provide rides to Zoox employees, their families and friends in Las Vegas, San Francisco and Foster City, California, the company said.
Zoox's test fleet, comprised of manned retrofitted SUVs, is present in a handful of cities, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin, Miami, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Its expansions to Los Angeles and Atlanta took place earlier this year, according to press releases from the company.
FLEET OF AMAZON-BACKED SELF-DRIVING TAXIS WILL SOON HIT THE LAS VEGAS STREETS WITH PUBLIC RIDES
Zoox said in late May it "recently opened its Zoox Explorer program in Las Vegas, inviting select riders to experience the Zoox robotaxi and provide feedback on the forthcoming service for free." It is targeting a broader launch of its robotaxi to the Las Vegas public "later this year," according to the company.
It has also said it is looking to start providing robotaxi rides to the public in San Francisco in 2025.
Earlier this week, Zoox revealed it had opened its "first-ever serial production facility" for its robotaxi in the U.S. The 220,000-square-foot Hayward, California, factory will have a capacity for over 10,000 robotaxis per year.
Get the latest updates on this story at FOXBusiness.Com
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Tesla delivers a Model Y autonomously from factory, marking major step in self-driving tech
Jose (fourth from left) with the Tesla team after receiving his Model Y at homePhoto: X/JoseAustin: Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the company successfully carried out its first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y, with the vehicle driving itself from the manufacturing facility to the customer's residence. The delivery is part of Tesla's broader effort to demonstrate advancements in autonomous driving.
Musk revealed the update through a post on X (formerly Twitter), stating that the Model Y navigated "across town," including highway routes.
"The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways", Musk said.
The autonomous delivery took place a day earlier than originally planned. "Completed a day ahead of schedule!! Congratulations to the @Tesla_AI teams, both software & AI chip design!" Musk said.
He pointed out that the delivery took place without anyone inside the vehicle or any remote control involved.
"There were no people in the car at all and no remote operators in control at any point. FULLY autonomous! To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fully autonomous drive with no people in the car or remotely operating the car on a public highway." Musk said.
Although Musk did not initially share photos or video evidence of the trip, he later reposted the tweet of the buyer who got the Tesla delivered.
"That was me! So excited to have been a part of this thank you! Elon Musk and Tesla", the buyer posted with the images of the car delivered.
The buyer shared excitement on X after taking the first ride in the autonomously delivered Tesla.
"First drive in the first fully autonomously delivered Tesla! Thank you @elonmusk, @philduan, @aelluswamy, @Tesla, Brian Aeder and the @Tesla_AI team for such an amazing experience", he said.
According to Bloomberg, Tesla's head of AI and Autopilot, Ashok Elluswamy, said the Model Y hit 72 mph during the trip.
This event underlines Musk's vision of Tesla evolving beyond an electric vehicle manufacturer into a company deeply rooted in artificial intelligence and robotics.
The announcement comes shortly after the launch of Tesla's long-anticipated robotaxi program. On June 22, Tesla began offering test rides to a limited group of influencers and investors using a small fleet of self-driving Model Y SUVs, confined to certain zones within Austin.
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