— Terrapin Terpene Col (@TerrapinTerpene) June 10, 2025 From the video, we can see that a second Tesla vehicle is trailing the driverless vehicle, likely with a remote teleoperator ready to take control or activate a kill switch. As we previously reported, Tesla has been building a team of teleoperators to remotely control its vehicles when needed. Just this week, days before the planned launch of the service, Tesla has posted a new job listing for engineers to build a teleoperation system with as low latency as possible. Having a trailing car can address the latency problem. After sharing the video above, Musk highlighted that these are unmodified Model Ys, like the ones that Tesla delivers to customers. This prompted someone to ask when Tesla plans to deliver unsupervised self-driving to customers, as he promised every Tesla vehicle produced since 2016 would be capable of doing. Musk didn’t confirm it, but he said that the custom software running on those vehicles have about 4 times more parameters than the current version (FSD v13) in customers vehicles and he could see that being deployed in the customer fleet later this year: It’s a new version of software, but will merge to main branch soon. We have a more advanced model in alpha stage that has ~4X the params, but still requires a lot of polishing. That’s probably ready for deploy in a few months. As we previously reported, this fleet deployment in Austin is quite a moving of the goal post for Tesla, which has been promising unsupervised self-driving in all vehicles since 2016. This service is only going to work in a geo-fenced area where Tesla is optimizing its FSD software to perform better, and it is supported by teleoperation, something that can’t be scaled to the customer fleet. Electrek’s Take I don’t know why Musk wants to emphasize that Tesla is using the same vehicles it delivers to customers as if it’s a giant advantage over Waymo. We know that Tesla’s hardware approach is much cheaper than Waymo. That’s not new. The real question has always been about safety and performance.