"We are expecting to have no safety drivers in at least large parts of Austin by the end of this year,"
"So within a few months, we expect to have no safety drivers at all, at least in parts of Austin. We're obviously being very cautious about the deployment."
"Obviously even one accident will be front page headline news worldwide,"
"So it's better for us to take a cautious approach here."
"Even if the regulators weren't making us do it, we'd still do that as the right, cautious approach to a new market."
Tesla expects to remove human safety monitors from robotaxis in large parts of Austin by the end of the year and plans to launch robotaxi services in 8–10 additional U.S. states before the end of 2025. Current robotaxi safety monitors have access to a kill switch and sit in the passenger seat in Austin and the driver seat in San Francisco as a fallback. The Austin fleet was last reported at about 20 vehicles and has driven more than a quarter million miles, while San Francisco vehicles have driven more than a million miles. New-market deployments will include safety monitors as a cautious fallback regardless of regulatory requirements.
Read at The Verge
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