Overview

• Musk announced on June 27 that a Tesla Model Y completed a fully driverless delivery from its Austin factory to a customer’s home with no occupants and no remote intervention
• Tesla declined to provide route details or video evidence to substantiate the vehicle’s autonomous highway segment, leaving the claim unverified
• Electrek and industry analysts note that Waymo and other firms have long offered fully autonomous highway rides, challenging Tesla’s assertion of a first
• The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a probe within 24 hours of Tesla’s June 22 Austin Robotaxi launch after reports of unsafe maneuvers
• Experts highlight Tesla’s camera-only approach and past self-driving delays as factors driving broader doubts about its autonomy ambitions