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Tesla d’Elon Musk abandoned a 30 -minute video designed to electrify the fans and stir the debate. Published on June 28, the clip shows what Musk claims is a historic step: the first Tesla Model y to get from the factory to the customer’s house, without anyone inside and without a distant operation.
“The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from the factory to a customer house across the city, including the highways, has just ended a day before the scheduled date !!” Musk published on X (formerly Twitter) on June 27.
The Y model, the best -selling vehicle in the world, navigates the car parks, highways, intersections and streets of the city, after traffic lights and the stop of pedestrians. The destination? A very happy owner’s house about 30 minutes from Austin Gigafactory in Tesla.
Come and spend time with us and model for 30 minutes
Complete 1x speed below below https://t.co/lcclc85hsn pic.twitter.com/3ki7styhsa
– Tesla (@tesla) June 28, 2025
Musk did not retain: “There was no one in the car and no distant operator controls at any time. Completely autonomous!” He continued: “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fully autonomous motivation without anyone in the car or operating the car remotely on a public road.”
There was no one in the car and no distant operator controls at any time. Completely autonomous!
To our knowledge, this is the first fully independent motivation without anyone in the car or by operating the car remotely on a public road.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2025
X fans were ecstatic. “Thank you for changing the world and how we work” wrote one.
Thank you for changing the world and how we work – really phenomenal to witness the story. Just curious: if Tesla now has the technology where a car can be fully behaved independently from the factory to the house of a customer through the city (even on highways!), Could you help us …
– AIAGENT (@AI_voiceage) June 27, 2025
“Fantastic to see this happen,” said another.
Fantastic to see that happening and just shy from the 5th anniversary of the start of the construction of Giga Texas! Historical!
– Joe tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎 🤠🛸😎 🤠🛸😎 🤠🛸😎 (@joetegtmeyer) June 27, 2025
This is the kind of video that makes you believe that the future has finally arrived. But it is Elon Musk and Tesla we are talking about – a business with a long history of too promising and underestimated on autonomous technology. To understand what is really going on, you have to understand the high challenge race of several billion dollars to build a really autonomous car.
Technological wars: VS Lasers cameras
At the heart of the autonomous race are two fundamentally different philosophies.
On the one hand, you have tesla. Its “complete autonomous” system (FSD) is almost exclusively based on cameras and AI. The approach, known as “Tesla Vision”, argues that if humans can drive with only two eyes, a car should be able to do the same with eight cameras offering a 360 -degree view. The computer of the car “sees” the world and makes decisions based on a huge amount of video data on which it was formed. It is a visually impressive approach and at a lower cost, because it avoids expensive equipment.
On the other hand, you have companies like Waymo (belonging to the mother company of Google, Alphabet). The Waymo system also uses cameras and a radar, but its key sensor is Lidar (light detection and stumbling up). The Lidar units are around, pulling millions of laser beams per second to create a 3D card in real-time-précis of the car environment. This gives the car a superhuman capacity to “see” the distances, shapes and objects with precise details, day or night. It is more expensive but is widely considered by many of the industry as a more robust and more redundant system.
The challenges are colossal: the company that breaks, level 5 autonomy – where a car can drive anywhere, at any time, without any human intervention – will not only dominate the automotive industry, but will also revolutionize logistics, transport and urban life.
Verification of reality: Deconstructing media threshing
With this background, let’s watch Tesla’s video again. The model manages it impressive various scenarios of the real world. But Musk’s claims on a historical first are, characteristicly, exaggerated. A few days ago, on June 22, Tesla spear A very limited version of its Robotaxi service in Austin. Not only did this involve a small number of cars and customers picked by hand, but each vehicle had a human supervisor in the passenger seat and was limited to a “geographically limited) area.
In addition, Musk’s assertion that this is the “first fully autonomous motivation without anyone in the car … on a public road” is clearly false. Waymo already offers driver -free rides, including trips en route to its employees in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Although it has not yet been available to the public, the capacity has been operational for some time. The main difference is that Waymo has spent years collecting data and validating its security in these areas with its fleet equipped with Lidar, while Tesla seems to rush to create a public perception of leadership.
Our grip: a breakthrough or a carefully choreographed blow?
This Tesla video is a public relations victory. But given the history of musk, a good dose of skepticism is justified. It is very likely that this specific 30 -minute route was meticulously mapped and tested by Tesla in ideal conditions to ensure flawless performance for video. The real autonomy test is not whether a car can take a perfect and pre-plane-plane trip; It is if he can manage thousands of unpredictable trips, safely, over millions of kilometers.
The most revealing question remains: if Tesla’s system is really “fully autonomous” as claims in this video, why its commercial robotaxis still requires a human supervisor?
Musk is a brilliant seller, and this video is his last most convincing announcement. He sells a vision of the future which is terribly close. But as we have seen many times, with Tesla, the gap between a promotional video and daily reality can be vast. Until these cars sail in countless cities without human security net, this “historic” is only a little more than a piece of brilliant marketing, but probably brittle.
