Musk’s Tesla Robotaxis to launch in Austin, Texas, this Sunday

Tesla deployed a small group of self-driving taxis picking up paying passengers on Sunday in Austin, Texas, with CEO Elon Musk announcing the “robotaxi launch” and social-media influencers posting videos of their first rides.

Musk called the moment the “culmination of a decade of hard work” and noted that “the AI chip and software teams were built from scratch within Tesla.”