Musk’s driverless Teslas hit Austin—no safety drivers in sight

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00:00Musk's driverless Teslas hit Austin, no safety drivers in sight.

00:05Austin just got a lot weirder.

00:07Tesla's robo-taxis are now officially loose on city streets,

00:11with zero humans in the driver's seat, or anywhere else for that matter.

00:15After months of influencer joyrides with nervous employees up front,

00:19Elon Musk's electric parade ditched the safety drivers and let the bots fend for themselves.

00:25Musk, who spent years bragging that true autonomy was just a software update away,

00:29finally has empty Model Y's roaming Austin.

00:32In response to a viral video of an empty Tesla robo-taxi driving in Austin,

00:37Musk confirmed on X that Tesla is now running fully driverless tests, saying,

00:41testing is underway with no occupants in the car.

00:45Tesla's pilot fleet has logged eight accidents since June,

00:48racking up a crash every 62,000 miles,

00:51while the average American driver goes about 500,000 miles between fender benders.

00:56So, yeah, maybe hold off on that robot ride for now.

01:00Regulators in Texas are letting Tesla run wild,

01:02while in California, rules still stand between these bots and a public launch.

01:07The Austin fleet barely tops 30 cars,

01:09but Musk's big talk of covering half the U.S.

01:12has quietly shrunk to doubling the Austin numbers to 60.

01:16Oh, and about Waymo, Tesla's main rival.

01:19Musk claims Waymo never stood a chance,

01:21yet their driverless cabs still crash way less.

01:23Maybe it's not the hype, but the hardware.

01:26Bottom line, Tesla's robo-taxis are loose in Austin,

01:30the crashes are piling up,

01:31and the future looks, well, messy.