Came true late: · 7 months after the deadline
Unsupervised FSD paid service in Austin in June 2025
“We’re going to be launching unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June.”
Context: Elon Musk on the Q4 2024 earnings call (Motley Fool transcript). He added: "no one in the car".
How we judge it
Paid rides with no Tesla employee in the vehicle, open to the public in Austin, by 30 Jun 2025.
Resolution criteria are our interpretation of the claim, written before grading. Methodology
- Said
- Resolve by
- Verdict
- Partly kept at deadline ()
- Stated probability
- None stated
- Specificity
- 3 of 3 (precise and measurable)
- Score
- 0.5 points × weight 3
Later developments
Came true late: · 7 months after the deadline
Verdict at the deadline: Partly kept (). That verdict, and the score, stay as they are; this line records that it happened later. Methodology
The missing element arrived later: on 22 Jan 2026 Tesla began public Robotaxi rides in Austin with no safety monitor or employee in the car (a few cars mixed into the monitored fleet).
- CNBC: Musk says Tesla takes safety supervisors out of some Austin Robotaxis (Jan 22, 2026)
- Teslarati: Tesla launches public Robotaxi rides in Austin with no Safety Monitor (Jan 2026)
- The Verge: Tesla is finally doing unsupervised robotaxi rides (Jan 2026)
Last checked for later developments .
Evidence & grader’s note
Paid service launched June 22, 2025 with no one in the driver seat, but invite-only and with a Tesla safety monitor in the passenger seat.
