You* can now** ride in Tesla’s robotaxi ***

* If you are a select Tesla employee.
** If you’re in the Bay Area or Austin.
*** If someone is sitting in the driver’s seat.

Yesterday, Tesla announced on X that it’s testing a supervised version of its upcoming ride-hailing service among employees in the Bay Area and Austin, ahead of what’s supposed to be a rollout of unsupervised driverless robotaxis to the public in two months in Austin. The company said it has completed more than 1,500 trips and 15,000 miles of driving.

The electric vehicle company is using Supervised Full Self-Driving technology on these rides, which the company says on its website requires drivers to keep their hands on the wheel. It doesn’t appear that the person in the driver seat in this video is holding the wheel (or at least not at the 10 and 2 position), but of course that’s closer to the company’s promised goal for the service.

While the caveats are large, this is a big step toward the company’s push for autonomous ride-hailing and at least suggests it has a working robotaxi app.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk was mostly light on details about the June (or maybe July) launch during the company’s earnings call earlier this week, but said the program would start with 10 to 20 Model Ys and not Cybercabs, which are supposed to go into production next year. The rides would have remote support, but “it’s not going to be required for safe operation.” When pressed for more details, Musk said, “It’s only a couple of months away, so you can just see it for yourself in a couple of months in Austin.”

Rival Google-owned Waymo, of course, has been operating a driverless ride-hailing service in Austin along with partner Uber since early March.