With just weeks to go before Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s self-imposed deadline to remove “safety monitors” in its Austin, Texas, robotaxi service, the EV giant and Musk are ramping up rhetoric stressing their autonomy and AI ambitions. Tesla stock edged up slightly in Tuesday’s stock market. Musk claimed during October’s third-quarter earnings call that Tesla plans to take its “safety monitors” out of the front passenger seats of Model Y robotaxis in Austin by the end of the year.
