Tesla released a series of video clips demonstrating its autonomous vehicles handling various real-world road conditions and obstacles, timing the release just ahead of its third-quarter earnings call. The footage was published on a dedicated website created for a company robotaxi safety report and was also shared on social media by Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of artificial intelligence.
The video collection, labeled by Elluswamy as robotaxi B-roll, depicts vehicles operating without a driver behind the wheel through adverse conditions such as stormy weather, pedestrian crossings at green lights, stray pets, and interactions with rival autonomous vehicles. Among the published segments, a notable clip near the 1:44 mark captures a Tesla robotaxi coming to a complete stop in its own lane as a competing Waymo vehicle executes a wide right turn. The Waymo vehicle can be seen temporarily encroaching into the Tesla’s lane before returning to its designated path. Representatives for Waymo did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the incident.
Another short sequence shows a Tesla operating at night and applying its brakes after an Avride vehicle pulls out from the right, extending slightly too far into the Tesla’s driving path. Avride currently operates an autonomous ride-hailing service through Uber in Dallas and conducts testing with safety drivers behind the wheel in Austin. A spokesperson for Avride did not immediately return requests for comment on the footage.
The release of the safety material aligns with Tesla’s broader public push to demonstrate the safety capabilities of its autonomous fleet. The company initiated a limited deployment of driverless autonomous rides without an in-car safety monitor in Austin this past January.
Alongside the video demonstrations, the newly published safety report revealed that Tesla’s autonomous service has accumulated 3.3 million driverless miles. That operational scale remains relatively modest when compared to established competitors, with Waymo reporting more than 271 million autonomous miles driven as of June. Building on these deployments, company executives announced during the Q3 earnings call that Tesla plans to launch unsupervised Cybercabs in Dallas this coming November.
