Tesla’s long -awaited robotaxi dream may finally come on the road this month. CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the company starts in its self-driving vehicles to start a public ride in its self-driving vehicles. The announcement made via a post on X (East Twitter) is an important moment in Tesla’s ambitious self-driving strategy. Musk has long stopped Tesla’s future on autonomous vehicles, which he believes that the future of transport is going away from the plan to manufacture cheap electric cars in favor.

But it will not launch a full speed yet. Musk warned that the company is getting “Super Paranoid about security” and the date of the rollout may be shifted based on the final check. The pilot service is expected to start with the 10–20 model Y SUV, which is running in a limited area under distance human supervision.

Musk also revealed that from June 28, Tesla vehicles would start running themselves directly from production line to customer homes – another first, if promised.

Tesla is testing its full self-driving (FSD) software on public roads in Austin. In a recently performed by Musk, a model Y was autonomally converted into a corner, with the word “robotaxi”.

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Despite the enthusiasm, Tesla’s service will actually work very rarely about where it will work, what kind of human monitoring will be involved, or how people can book a ride. A successful robotxy debut may be important for Tesla, especially EV sales have slowed down, competition has increased, and musk polarization political affiliation has affected the company’s reputation in Europe.

“Austin >> LA for Robotaxy launch launch,” Musk posted in a tongue-in-gala jab in California’s tight autonomous vehicle rules. During the ongoing La riots, the Wemo self-driving cars were also set on fire last week.

Uber and Wave saw on London

Tesla’s move comes in the form of Ride-Heling veteran Uber, which also appears in Atlantic. The company has announced that it will launch its first robotaxi trial in London in 2026, in partnership with British AI Startup Wave Technologies Limited, unlike Tesla’s bold, No-Human-Inside approach in partnership, Uber’s pilot will start with drivers on the wheel–what is the freedom level 4 autonomy. It is often used as a step stone for complete automation. Uber said that it hopes to reach that perfectly autonomous milestone soon, although it has not offered a specific timeline.

Uber’s time is helped by a new law in the UK. The Automatic Vehicle Act, recently passed by Parliament, establishes a fast-track structure to achieve self-driving buses and taxis on public roads. “The future of transportation is coming,” said UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander. “Self-driving cars can bring opportunities for jobs, investment and UK among world leaders in new technology.”

Waymo leads the way, but faces challenges

While Tesla and Uber are running to enter the market, Wemo, which is owned by Alphabet (the original company of Google), is ahead in many ways. Its Wemo One Service is already offering more than 200,000 payments per week in San Francisco, Phoenix, Los Angeles and Austin. Vemo has planned to expand more cities in the US including Atlanta, Miami and Washington, DC, where it is working with local policy makers to allow perfectly for driverless services – the capital is not yet legal.

But being first does not mean to be innocent. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently revealed an investigation in WEME, after unexpected behavior of 22 reports and traffic safety violations. In the previous year, Wemo has also had to remember more than 1,000 vehicles after minor accidents and software errors. Nevertheless, the company suggests that its cars are quite safe than human drivers, showing 81 percent less injuries citing 50 million rider-quarter miles data.