For many Tesla investors, Sunday's launch of its robotaxi trials in Texas represented the historic day. After years of courageous promises, Elon Musk's company eventually began to browse passengers alone without man directly behind the wheel.
When the first view was very good, that should be a little surprise. Selection of passengers in the only invitation test set for Tesla cows, as well as Dan Ives. Wedbush Tech analyst says the stock should have a double market value of the $ 1 trillion market, and is currently proposing as a purchase with a price target of $ 500.
“In general, these robotaxiss exceeded our expectations and provided travel experience without seam and personalized that set the spark for driving freely,” Ives told his clients in a research register on Sunday, describing his experience as “very interesting.”
On the one hand, the day signaled the historic action for Tesla, whose shares were exposed to 1.7% of the highest in the flat market.
For the first time, the manufacturer relies heavily on the sale of hardware-the supply of electric vehicles-emphasizing it was on the way that a company that one day could get a large part of its profit from high-quality software and services.
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However, it wasn't anywhere near ”Chatgpt time“Tesla's CEO has He promised to Two years ago.
There are no open switches that suddenly made millions of Tesla vehicles capable of operating without human supervision, as Musk has predicted.
Tesla invited the city's outside executives to try the service
Instead the horsemen had a large number of famous Tesla-friendly influencers, many of whom had traveled from outside the city to Austin just to participate in the launch.
The exact number of cars involved in the experiment on Sunday is unknown. Musk showed previously he just wanted almost a dozen or thus reducing risk and ensuring high safety.
Tesla staff serving as security investigators were sitting all the time in the front passenger seat, though it is unclear what influence, if any, on the car or if the car, in some cases, was flying remotely.
Since the rider was separated from the southern Austin area, the trips were charged to Model price of $ 4.20 each (Memory of marijuana often uses) It seemed short. Two Livestreams and Tesla broadcasters Farzad Mesbahi and Sawyer Merritt were five and three minutes in length, the ruler.
Tesla did not publish any figures from her first day, but in one photo of the Tesla Robotaxi command center Sent With the software guide Ashok Elluswamy, the screen showed that 112 rider had been run for a total of 499 miles, or approximately 4.5 miles per trip.
The company did not respond to a request from Luck for feedback.
Seeking Robotaxi as 'Pokemon Hunt'
Even in this controlled environment, it didn't go completely without a hitch. There was a little delay for two hours at the beginning, and once the service was activated, the participants mentioned the long -awaited times and remote areas in other cases.
In one example, this required Herbert Ong and Xander Sky to remove it from finding their Tesla car as it would not collect on the highway near their area.
“This is like Pokemon hunting,” Sky argued, as one of the guests on their living journey “Keep running, keep running”.
“Keep running, keep running”. – @Teslaboomermamama When he looks @herbertong Find his first robotaxi stopped taking him in Austin. Herbert got about 1/4 miles of action but eventually got a robotaxi. pic.twitter.com/7yxfesqraf– Miss Jililanne (@missijilianne) June 22, 2025
Sawyer Merritt, another Tester on Sunday, working extensively in the Tesla community, said he hoped the interruption would be revised soon.
“One thing I wish you would do was change the picture in the image for a robotaxi,” he He said. “Right now, you are bound for whatever you choose.”
“Obviously we're on the wrong side of the yellow lines twice”
The biggest issue, however, happened during the journey that Rob Maurer took. The former Tesla Daily Podcaster, who was behind the Y model when it briefly tried the left turn before turning back to his old path.
At that point, however, it was running briefly in the path preserved for upcoming traffic.
“Obviously we are on the wrong side of the yellow lines twice here. There are no cars anywhere in front so this was not a safety issue, (but) we were caught by a car that was behind us,” Maurer said.
In other words, the first day was the many success of Tesla Pundits expected, taking into account the restrictions set to ensure security, but the one that leaves the improvement space even before the service expanded to more users.