FuriaHubAll tracked Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin were unsupervised
Robotaxi Tracker logged 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin over two weeks, all without an onboard safety monitor, across 54 cars. Creator Ethan McKanna said Austin has seemingly stopped supervised rides.
On August 20, 2026, The Verge reported that Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi service appears to have gone fully unsupervised. Over the prior two weeks, all 170 rides logged by the crowdsourced Robotaxi Tracker had no onboard safety monitor.
What we know
- Those 170 rides involved 54 different cars, according to site creator Ethan McKanna.
- McKanna said Austin has seemingly stopped supervised rides for a couple of weeks and that plates once marked supervised now offer unsupervised trips.
- He also counted roughly 30 unsupervised Teslas in Dallas and Houston over the past week.
- Waymo still operates more than 300 driverless vehicles in Austin and about 4,000 across 10 other cities.
Takeaways
- The Austin unsupervised shift is from a crowdsourced tracker, not Tesla data.
- Tesla did not comment to The Verge.
- Waymo’s Austin and multi-city fleets remain much larger.
Source: The Verge
