It is happening. Yesterday Tesla starting rolling out FSD V14.2.1.25 with XAI Grok Voice. You give verbal navigation directions. Today Tesla robotaxi are being spotted driving around in Austin without safety monitors.
Even if you were a passenger who had trouble using a rideshare app to give your destination, you will be able to talk to the FSD robotaxi to give AND change your destinations.
There will be no safety monitor and safety drivers in months and scaling will accelerate massively.
All the people and analysts saying years away to scale or even bulls forecasting 10,000 or 40,000 or less unsupervised Tesla robotaxi by end of 2026 are wrong.
It will be bigger and faster.
Unsupervised Tesla Robotaxis are driving on the streets of Austin, TX!
There is no safety monitor inside the vehicle. Tesla has solved self-driving. https://t.co/66l4MyINKp pic.twitter.com/O8wwlji4fj
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) December 14, 2025
Here is a video from yesterday where you can talk to your Tesla car and give and change driving destinations.
Grok AI is now more deeply integrated into @Tesla UI.
You can now ask it to handle all your navigation tasks in a very human-like manner. This is a game changer, especially when paired with FSD.
Here’s a demo: pic.twitter.com/oziObJYju7
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) December 13, 2025
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So, when you take a robotaxi and there is nobody in it, are you allowed to sit at the driver place ? What happens if you use the steering wheel and the pedals (since there’s still a wheel) ? Maybe you are allowed to use the wheel as if the robotaxi was a rented car and you are responsible for how you drive if there’s an accident (?).