Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars.

Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of plastic bollards.

What the tracking shows, and who did it

A crowdsourced project called Robotaxi Tracker logged the rides. Its creator, Ethan McKanna, told The Verge that all 170 monitored rides over two weeks ran unsupervised. “Austin has seemingly stopped supervised rides for a couple weeks now,” he said. Plates previously marked as supervised are now offering unsupervised rides, he added.

One disclosure belongs at the top rather than buried. McKanna spent this summer interning with Tesla’s own Robotaxi team, as The Verge reports. That does not make his data wrong, and Tesla publishes nothing...

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