特斯拉CEO埃隆·马斯克承诺的Robotaxi服务已在旧金山湾区推出，但目前仍需人类驾驶员在场。与奥斯汀的服务不同，湾区的特斯拉车辆在启动时需要一名驾驶员，其职责是监督并随时准备接管特斯拉的全自动驾驶功能，以应对车辆可能出现的错误。原因是特斯拉尚未获得在加州运营无人驾驶服务的许可。此举在Alphabet的Waymo也在扩张其自动驾驶服务之际展开，Waymo计划明年在达拉斯推出服务，并已宣布将在迈阿密和华盛顿特区扩张。

🚗 特斯拉Robotaxi服务已在旧金山湾区推出，覆盖旧金山、圣何塞等地，允许用户通过叫车服务乘坐特斯拉车辆。

⚠️ 与奥斯汀不同，湾区的Robotaxi服务目前仍需要一名人类驾驶员坐在驾驶座上，负责监督车辆的全自动驾驶功能并随时准备接管。

🚫 特斯拉在加州尚未获得运营真正无人驾驶Robotaxi服务的许可，这是导致其在湾区服务模式与奥斯汀不同的主要原因。

🌐 此项服务推出之际，Alphabet旗下的Waymo也在积极扩张其自动驾驶业务，计划在达拉斯、迈阿密和华盛顿特区推出或扩大服务范围。

As recently promised by CEO Elon Musk, Tesla has launched its Robotaxi service in the Bay Area — but the "robo" part is a bit dodgy right now.

Tesla's AI account on X posted a coverage map on Thursday, with a big chunk of San Francisco, San Jose, and everything in between being covered by the service. Musk retweeted the tweet, saying that "you can now ride-hail a Tesla in the SF Bay Area, in addition to Austin."

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Tesla fans will undoubtedly be happy to see the service expand so quickly - it launched less than two months ago in Austin, and the coverage area was expanded to a wider area in Austin after a couple of weeks.

But as Electrek pointed out, in Bay Area the Robotaxi service is very different from the one in Austin, where the cars are really driving themselves, with no one present in the driver's seat (though the company does use human supervisors in the passenger seat).

In the Bay Area, however, there's a driver in the driver's seat. Their job is to basically use Tesla's Full-Self Driving set of autonomous driving features, allowing the car to drive itself but constantly supervising what it does, always ready to take over if the car makes an error.

Politico noted that Tesla doesn't have a permit to run an autonomous driving service in California, meaning that it can't launch a truly driverless Robotaxi service there.

The news comes after Alphabet's Waymo picked up its expansion plans. The company recently announced it will launch its autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas next year, on top of previously announced expansion in Miami and Washington D.C.