Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch

August 20, 2026 Rani Molla

Tesla Robotaxi on a graphic red background.

Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city's service appears to have finally gone fully driverless.

Over the past two weeks, all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin monitored by the crowdsourced Robotaxi Tracker were unsupervised, the site's creator, Ethan McKanna, told The Verge. Those rides involved 54 different cars. McKanna has also seen a sharp increase in unsupervised Robotaxis elsewhere, particularly Dallas and Houston, where roughly 30 driverless Teslas have been operating over the past week.

That's a substantial change from earlier this summe …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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