Elon Musk celebrated Friday after a Tesla drove itself from a factory to a customer’s home for the first time.
“First time that a car has delivered itself to its owner!” Musk boasted on X, a day before his 54th birthday.
Musk said the delivery was done ahead of schedule.
“The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways, was just completed a day ahead of schedule,” Musk wrote in another post. “There were no people in the car at all and no remote operators in control at any point. FULLY autonomous.”
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Tesla shared video of the drive, writing on X:,”This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner’s home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner.”
Tesla also debuted its robotaxi service in Austin this week.
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Ahead of the launch, CNBC reported the company would operate invite-only robotaxi rides, using a few Model Ys, within a geofenced area of Austin.
There were expected to be “safety monitors” with the vehicles, Electrek reported, citing invitations.
“Super congratulations to the @Tesla_AI software & chip design teams on a successful @Robotaxi launch!!” Musk wrote Sunday afternoon in an X post. “Culmination of a decade of hard work. Both the AI chip and software teams were built from scratch within Tesla.”
Fox News’ Aislinn Murphy and Alexandra Koch contributed to this report.
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