{"id":81970,"date":"2025-04-22T18:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81970"},"modified":"2025-04-22T18:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T22:53:44","slug":"here-are-all-crazy-claims-elon-musk-made-tesla-self-driving-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=81970","title":{"rendered":"Here are all the crazy claims Elon Musk made about Tesla self-driving today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1600\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-Hero.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta Hero\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-Hero.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-Hero.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-Hero.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Tesla-Full-Self-Driving-Beta-Hero.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Elon Musk said Tesla\u2019s self-driving will start contributing to the company\u2019s profits\u2026 wait for it\u2026 \u201cnext year\u201d with \u201cmillions of Tesla robotaxis in operation during the second half of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim has become a running joke, as he has made it for the last decade.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-412396\"\/><\/p>\n<p>During Tesla\u2019s conference call following the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/04\/22\/tesla-tsla-q1-2025-financial-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its Q1 2025 financial results<\/a>, Musk updated shareholders about Tesla\u2019s self-driving plans, which he again presented as critical to the company\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>He made a series of claims, mainly updating timelines about Tesla\u2019s self-driving efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\">Advertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are the main comments:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The CEO reiterated that Tesla will launch its paid autonomous ride-sharing service in Austin in June.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He did clarify that the fleet will consist of Model Y vehicles and not the new Cybercab.<\/li>\n<li>Musk also confirmed that Tesla is currently training a fleet specifically for Austin.<\/li>\n<li>As we previously reported, this internal ride-hailing fleet operating in a geo-fenced with teleoperation assist is a big change from Tesla\u2019s approach.<\/li>\n<li>Musk said \u201c10 to 20 vehicles\u201d on day one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Musk said that Tesla\u2019s self-driving will start contributing positively to the company financially in the middle of next year, and \u201cThere will be millions of Teslas operating autonomously in the second half of next year.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Musk has literally said something similar every year for the past decade and therefore, it\u2019s hard to take him seriously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The CEO claimed that Tesla would get \u201ca 90-something percentage market share\u201d in the autonomous market.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Musk again claimed that no one else is getting close to Tesla\u2019s capacity, and he criticized Waymo for being too expensive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Musk is \u201cconfident\u201d that the first Model Y will drive itself from the factory to a customer\u2019s home later this year.<\/li>\n<li>The CEO said that he is confident that Tesla will deliver \u201cunsupervised full self-driving\u201d in consumer vehicles by the end of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite Tesla missing earnings expectations by a wide margin, the company\u2019s stock rose 4% in after-hours trading following Musk\u2019s comments, indicating that shareholders still believe Musk\u2019s self-driving predictions, despite his predictions having been incorrect for almost a decade.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-electrek-s-take\">Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n<p>The first point I believe will happen. Tesla needs it to happen. It badly needs a win on the self-driving front.<\/p>\n<p>However, as we previously explained, while Tesla will claim a win in June, it will be with a limited geo-fenced and teleoperation-assisted system that won\u2019t scale to customer vehicles, which is what has been promised for years.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla was even asked how it plans to launch this in Austin in June, when FSD in consumer vehicles currently requires frequent interventions from drivers, and Ashok, Tesla\u2019s head of autonomous driving, admitted his team is currently focused on solving the intervention specifically related to driving in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>With training on specific Austin routes and using teleoperations, Tesla can make that happen, but the road between that and unsupervised self-driving in consumer vehicles and \u201cmillion of Tesla robotaxis\u201d in the second of next year is a long one.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, other than the first point, I believe Tesla will not achieve any of the other on anything close to the timelines announced by Musk today.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m willing to take bets on that. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said Tesla\u2019s self-driving will start contributing to the company\u2019s profits\u2026 wait for it\u2026 \u201cnext year\u201d with \u201cmillions of Tesla robotaxis in operation during the second half of the year.\u201d The claim has become a running joke, as he has made it for the last decade. During Tesla\u2019s conference call following the release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}