Here’s what you’ll learn reading this story.Tesla’s fleet of Robotaxis will have a safety monitor in the passenger seat to intervene when needed. Waymo and Tesla are not the only companies delivering autonomous taxis. The fleet of Robotaxis will use Tesla Model Y vehicles instead of the two-seat “Cybercab” that Elon Musk originally promised.Tesla has unleashed its fleet of Robotaxis on the streets of downtown Austin, Texas—with a “safety monitor” in the passenger seat. Seems like Elon Musk didn’t deliver on his promise of delivering unsupervised rides this summer. Futurism and many other outlets reported that the information regarding the presence of the co-driver was disclosed in the invitation sent to those interested in being part of the pilot program. As we reported previously, the fleet will be confined to a geofenced area within the Austin city limits, and will comprise 10 Tesla Model Ys with the latest “unsupervised” version of Full-Self-Driving (FSD) software—a departure from the two-seat Cybercab we saw released last year.After doing some digging, we discovered the invitation for those looking to participate in the early stages of Tesla’s Robotaxi program. You can see it below.Track RecordPretty much everyone is well aware of Musk’s over-promise, under-deliver approach by now, and the Robotaxi rollout is another tally in that column. Musk promised as far back as 2019 that Tesla would have one million autonomous taxis on the road by the following year—a prediction that has clearly failed to come true.That’s not to say that the modern world is bereft of autonomous taxis. Volkswagen’s ADMT service, Hyundai’s Motional fleet, and Amazon’s Zoox Fleet have all launched test fleets, and Waymo even rolled out a fleet in the same city Tesla is trying to enter with a similar chaperone-in-the-passenger-seat precaution. But it is worth noting that Musk has spent years hyping up the fact that his service wouldn’t need them. Could There Be More Than Just a Co-Driver?The news that Tesla would plonk a human “safety monitor” in the passenger seat was a bit surprising to us. Late last year, Electrek reported that Tesla was assembling a teleoperations team to monitor and remotely control each Robotaxi. Waymo employed a similar tactic when releasing its multiple fleets nationwide, allowing the vehicles to send alerts to the teleoperations team. That meant real humans would get a ping when a vehicle was stuck, and they could take steps to get the vehicle out of whatever bottleneck it found itself in.However, that’s where the similarities between the Waymo and Tesla fleets end. Tesla has defiantly stuck with their plan to exclusively use cameras to control its vehicles, while Waymo uses cameras that are backed up by radar sensors, LiDAR sensors, and ultrasonic sensors to understand the surroundings their cars drive through. Only time will tell if Tesla can remedy the apparent laundry list of problems it’s having getting Full Self-Driving-equipped vehicles to operate without any training wheels.