At the end of last year, the head of Tesla, Elon Musk) admitted that the company will begin to offer an autopilot in Texas and California that does not require supervision from a person in the second quarter of 2025. At today’s reporting conference, it became known that the pioneer of the implementation of this function will be Austin, where the large enterprise Tesla and its new headquarters are located.
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Such a binding is understandable by the desire of Tesla to run into everything new, in the literal sense of the word, in the vicinity of its headquarters. Today, Elon Musk said the following: “Tesla will launch a complete autopilot uncontrollable to man as a paid service in Austin in June.” Since it would be strange to observe the selective activation of this function on customer cars when being in a particular city, we are probably talking about Tesla electric vehicles, which in this area will act as automatic taxis. Moreover, previously the tests of such a service have already been carried out, as company representatives admitted last year.
When the mask was asked about the terms of accessibility of this service in California, he called the more blurry frames: “I predict that Tesla will launch a complete autopilot (FSD) in California by the end of this year, as in many other regions of the United States.” It is noteworthy that in Texas, apparently, the territory of the service will be limited by its administrative center. This is reasonable, given the complexity of the implementation of the full autopilot on public roads and the need for remote control over the behavior of unmanned vehicles. Tesla is not going to offer full autopilot to all customers until it becomes safer than the average driver.
According to the American NHTSA department, local drivers pass on average without incident of 670,000 miles (1.072 million km). According to unofficial data, Tesla with her autopilot “conditionally trouble -free mileage” is about 500 miles (800 km), but we are talking about the need to intervene in management from a person, and not real incidents. In other words, the company still has something to work on in terms of technology improvement.
At the quarterly event, Musk also stated that it is the commercial successes of the corporate autopilot that Tesla’s financial indicators will begin to move up in the next three years. Their growth will be literally carried out “along the ballistic trajectory”, as the head of the company put it using an aerospace term. If we take into account that something similar Musk promised a year earlier in relation to the year of the current one, one can recognize the next displacement of the deadlines inherent in the plans of the company. In fact, Musk has been promising to offer a complete autopilot “next year” for about eight years in a row. In some limited form, apparently, it will appear in the current, but the mass coverage of the market will have to talk in a later date.