2nd of 3 Tesla Unsupervised Robotaxi Rides Today (full video) from Holiday Inn to Firehouse Subs

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]5:00 p.m. Oh, we got Oh, let's see what we do here. So, we got a school bus stopping. We got a school bus stopping to let kids out.

[00:00:11]All right, Robo-taxi. This is your time to shine.

[00:00:14]It stops. It's It's staying stopped for the school bus.

[00:00:26]All right, those kids are getting out.

[00:00:29]The stop sign's being retracted.

[00:00:33]And there we go.

[00:00:34]Man, great job, Tesla Robo-taxi.

[00:00:39]Great job, Tesla AI.

[00:00:42]That was phenomenal.

[00:00:46]Absolutely phenomenal.

[00:00:52]For anybody out there who's a parent, can you appreciate that any more?

[00:01:01]Man, I'll tell you what.

[00:01:05]Screw timelines. Screw deadlines.

[00:01:10]However they want to push this out, let Tesla AI and Elon cook. Cuz what I just saw right there, if that doesn't make your heart grow bigger for all the hard-working people at Tesla AI, all right, we're going to see another one.

[00:01:29]Come on. Let's do two in a row. Two in a row, baby. Turn left onto Fallbrook Drive. All right, we're coming to a stop.

[00:01:38]And we are stopped. Stop stopped.

[00:01:41]Got the stop sign.

[00:01:45]Let the kiddos out.

[00:01:49]Keep that stop sign up for a little bit.

[00:01:51]Let all those kiddos out.

[00:01:59]Let them get home to mama.

[00:02:02]Get on home to mama.

[00:02:04]Don't linger.

[00:02:08]And uh don't fall in that ditch, young man.

[00:02:13]Wow.

[00:02:14]Wow.

[00:02:17]Fantastic.

[00:02:22]All right, stopping again.

[00:02:27]Numero trace. Numero trace.

[00:02:33]Wow.

[00:02:35]God, I am just I am so happy right now.

[00:02:42]If this doesn't make your heart grow bigger for all those hard-working folks at Tesla AI, the blood, sweat, and tears.

[00:02:56]You're seeing it right here.

[00:03:01]Like this is just phenomenal.

[00:03:05]Man, that's just so fantastic.

[00:03:08]Three in a row. I mean, back to back to back. I mean, that's just as clear as day. Wow. I I'm I'm honestly I I just I my feelings right now.

[00:03:22]First of all, my heart's just busting of just how wonderful that was. And And granted, all of my kids are grown and out of the house, so I don't have small kids anymore.

[00:03:33]But I'm about to have a grandchild.

[00:03:36]And I know there's a bunch of folks out there in the Tesla universe, you've got small kids, school-age kids. Tell me tell me with a straight face that that didn't just make your heart grow even larger for Tesla, Tesla AI, Elon, Ashok, all of the folks at Tesla and Tesla AI and Robo-taxi.

[00:03:59]Man, great job, guys.

[00:04:02]I mean, I'm not going to do like the Oscars here and start naming people off, but you know who you are. That's just phenomenal. Wow.

[00:04:11]Wow. Okay.

[00:04:12]Literally as soon as I turned the app back on, it gave me the uh the vehicle.

[00:04:20]So, I'm getting the same vehicle again.

[00:04:23]Now, it says it's 7 minutes away. So, while I was sitting there jaw-jacking at the end, um I guess nobody else booked it. So, now it's going to come back to me, and we're going to go to Firehouse Subs. All right, 7 minutes away. Talk to you soon.

[00:04:39]Bye.

[00:04:40]And there it is. Let's see what it does this time.

[00:04:45]All right, going around. Is it going to be able to come on front here and pick me up, or what's its modus operandi going to be? I'm going to back up a little bit. Here it comes.

[00:04:56]Going to get right in front.

[00:04:58]Perfect.

[00:05:02]All right.

[00:05:09]Back in here.

[00:05:11]Down.

[00:05:13]So, we start ride on the screen this time.

[00:05:17]Here we go. We got 19 minutes to get to Firehouse Subs.

[00:05:23]This time was a bit easier getting into and out of the hotel since the uh drive-through area wasn't blocked.

[00:05:33]Now, turn left onto West Road.

[00:05:37]Um I was able to look at some of the questions on X. I've been posting screenshots of getting uh the rides and whatnot.

[00:05:47]And I was able to I wasn't able to answer cuz obviously I'm focused here on Robo-taxi right now. And we're make We're about to You can see we're going to make an unprotected left across this.

[00:05:59]We got to get into the median, but not leave our butt out. And man, fantastic job, Robo-taxi.

[00:06:07]Wow. And sorry for the film work there cuz I'm trying to I was trying to get three angles. Getting across that part of Jones Road, getting into the median, and not leaving our butt out, which we didn't do. And then getting making the unprotected left into traffic, and it just did fantastic.

[00:06:25]Amazing job, Tesla Robo-taxi. God, Tesla AI is just cooking.

[00:06:30]Literally cooking.

[00:06:32]All right. Now that we're at a uh at stoplight behind this uh brand new Tesla Model Y. I wonder if they're going to figure out there's a Robo-taxi right behind them.

[00:06:45]But um what was one of the questions?

[00:06:47]So, I think I saw AJ asked if they are clean. And man, they're spotless. So, they're being kept very, very clean.

[00:06:56]Um Now, I don't know how often somebody's cleaning them out, or if it's just a case of, you know, the folks that are riding in it now are Tesla nerds like me, and they're trying to, you know, treat it nicely. Now, we're going to go by this Tesla.

[00:07:19]Uh they're going to turn. They're not going to get a chance. They're probably not going to They're not even paying attention.

[00:07:23]Nope.

[00:07:24]So, you had a couple of people in that Tesla Model Y who have no clue >> [laughter] >> that a unsupervised Tesla Robo-taxi was right behind them, and uh just passed around them.

[00:07:40]Too bad for them.

[00:07:42]So, did have one lady really checking it out on my first Robo-taxi ride today to go over to Holiday Inn.

[00:07:52]Um I am not going to say she looked excited. She looked dumbfounded. She literally was You could tell in her face. It wasn't anger. It wasn't happiness.

[00:08:07]It was literally like a 60-plus-year-old woman trying to do the mental calculus of what exactly is it that I'm looking at right now. What is going on? How is this on the road? How is there nobody driving this thing?

[00:08:26]And I see a dude in the back filming me.

[00:08:29]Filming me. I'm supposed to be filming you. Like, no, ma'am, I'm going to film you.

[00:08:34]>> [laughter] >> Now, we're behind the school bus.

[00:08:37]I It's hard to see cuz they keep the school bus windows tinted. I was trying to see if any of the kids noticed. It may be empty, though.

[00:08:46]They may have It's already 4:37, so they probably dropped off most of the kids.

[00:08:53]But yeah, and it's just hard to tell with how heavily they tint those windows, which I completely understand.

[00:09:03]If my kids were in those school buses, I wouldn't anybody being a creeper.

[00:09:11]>> [clears throat] >> But uh yeah, nobody on this trip so far. Of course, we we still got 15 minutes left.

[00:09:18]So, we're going to go to Firehouse Subs.

[00:09:21]And uh once we get there, I actually am going to stop for a bit. I have not eaten today, so I'm going to get uh I'm trying to get back into my intermittent fasting.

[00:09:32]And uh push out my fasting window as much as I can.

[00:09:40]And I would say by the time we get there, 5:00 p.m. Oh, we got Oh, let's see what we do here. So, we got a school bus stopping. We got a school bus stopping to let kids out.

[00:09:56]All right, Robo-taxi. This is your time to shine.

[00:09:59]It stops. It's It's staying stopped for the school bus.

[00:10:03]Oh, baby doll.

[00:10:06]Baby doll, you are making daddy so happy right now.

[00:10:11]All right, those kids are getting out.

[00:10:14]The stop sign's being retracted.

[00:10:17]And there we go.

[00:10:19]Man.

[00:10:21]Great job, Tesla robo-taxi.

[00:10:24]Great job, Tesla AI.

[00:10:26]That was phenomenal.

[00:10:30]Absolutely phenomenal.

[00:10:36]For anybody out there who's a parent, can you appreciate that anymore?

[00:10:46]Man, I'll tell you what.

[00:10:49]Screw timelines. Screw deadlines.

[00:10:54]However they want to push this out, let Tesla AI and Elon cook. Cuz what I just saw right there, if that doesn't make your heart grow bigger for all the hardworking people at Tesla AI, all right, we're going to see another one.

[00:11:14]Come on. Let's do two in a row. Two in a row, baby.

[00:11:19]All right, we're coming to a stop.

[00:11:22]And we are stopped. Stop, stop.

[00:11:26]Got the stop sign.

[00:11:29]Let the kiddos out.

[00:11:34]Keep that stop sign up for a little bit.

[00:11:36]Let all those kiddos out.

[00:11:43]Let them get home to mama.

[00:11:47]Get on home to mama.

[00:11:49]Don't linger.

[00:11:53]And uh don't fall in that ditch, young man.

[00:11:57]Wow.

[00:11:59]Wow.

[00:12:01]Fantastic.

[00:12:06]All right, stopping again.

[00:12:10]Mm.

[00:12:11]Numero trace. Numero trace.

[00:12:17]Wow.

[00:12:20]God, I am just I am so happy right now.

[00:12:26]If this doesn't make your heart grow bigger for all those hardworking folks at Tesla AI, the blood, sweat, and tears, you're seeing it right here.

[00:12:45]Like this is just phenomenal.

[00:12:53]Now turn left onto Fallbrook Drive.

[00:12:56]All right, we're going to turn left with the school bus. We're basically Now, here's the funny thing is uh man, we've just seen three good school bus stops in a row.

[00:13:11]And uh And now it's going to get to the point where we just tail the school bus. I don't want to be that. Like, "Sir, officer, I'm not even driving.

[00:13:22]It's uh it's the robo-taxi, officer."

[00:13:28]I'm just joking, obviously.

[00:13:30]But man, that's just so fantastic.

[00:13:36]Three in a row.

[00:13:41]All right, got still got about 12 minutes left.

[00:13:45]Oh, we got some traffic up here as we're getting close to the Beltway.

[00:13:53]So, there were kids on there. I just couldn't see.

[00:13:56]I wonder if they uh They've emptied all the kids out, so nobody noticed.

[00:14:04]So, all those kids on that school bus that popped out of there in those three uh stops, and none of them noticed that the Tesla was driverless.

[00:14:18]But man, that was so awesome.

[00:14:23]Three in a row. I mean, back to back to back.

[00:14:32]I mean, that's just as clear as day.

[00:14:39]Wow. I I'm I'm honestly I I just I my feelings right now, first of all, my heart's just busting of just how wonderful that was. And And granted, all of my kids are grown and out of the house, so I don't have small kids anymore.

[00:14:58]But I'm about to have a grandchild.

[00:15:00]And I know there's a bunch of folks out there in the Tesla universe, you got small kids, school-age kids. Tell me Tell me with a straight face that that didn't just make your heart grow even larger for Tesla, Tesla AI, Elon, Ashok, all of the folks at Tesla and Tesla AI, and robo-taxi.

[00:15:24]Man, great job, guys.

[00:15:27]I mean, I'm not going to do like the Oscars here and start naming people off, but you know who you are.

[00:15:35]That's just phenomenal.

[00:15:38]Phenomenal.

[00:15:40]I'm glad that I got a chance to see that.

[00:15:48]Wow.

[00:15:50]Wow.

[00:16:02]All right, we are still at the stoplight for the intersection of West Road and the Beltway.

[00:16:11]But uh should be moving on through here pretty soon.

[00:16:23]So far, nobody around us has noticed that this [snorts] is a driverless vehicle.

[00:16:40]Got the guy to my right is on his phone.

[00:16:47]And the guy to my left, uh he's not on his phone. He's just in his own world right now.

[00:16:58]But And now he just noticed.

[00:17:02]The guy to my right just noticed. He put his phone down, and he noticed.

[00:17:12]He just He looked at me and smiled.

[00:17:15]>> [laughter] >> That's pretty cool.

[00:17:20]That's pretty cool.

[00:17:24]He gave me the uh the peace sign, the good peace sign, and smiled. Had a big laugh. He was like, "What the hell?" See, and he's a youngster. He looks like he's probably in his late 20s, early 30s.

[00:17:40]And I just love seeing the young people.

[00:17:44]You know, like I said, that woman was you know, she was definitely She was older than me. So, she's 60 plus. I don't know where I mean, still No, no, no, nothing wrong with that. I mean, that's I'm up there with her. I'm 57. But uh yeah, her reaction [laughter] was much different than that young man. That young man was like, "Oh, yeah. Hell yeah."

[00:18:06]So, there That goes to show you that uh you know, like I said, he's probably somewhere between 28 to 33.

[00:18:15]And uh he just loved it.

[00:18:22]Let's see if anybody else notices as we're driving through.

[00:18:28]Not yet.

[00:18:30]See this lady? Nope, she does not look over.

[00:18:40]Got a straight truck in front of us. Got a school bus coming through right here.

[00:18:45]I think that's the same school bus.

[00:18:47]Yeah. Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. That's the same school bus that dropped off those kids and that uh Tesla unsupervised robo-taxi stopped for three times.

[00:19:06]Nine more minutes. Yeah, this time of day, it's just it's going to take a little bit longer. Lots of traffic.

[00:19:12]But man, Tesla unsupervised robo-taxi It robo-taxi is handling it like a champ. I can't even talk.

[00:19:24]This thing is so damn good, it's got me verklempt.

[00:19:30]All right.

[00:19:32]Okay, that was interesting. It It was hesitating there a bit. I don't know Oh, you know what it was? That school bus, I had to go back and look at that. I think that school bus it it was putting on its right blinker, but oh, that truck is getting over in this lane a little bit too much, but we're good. I wonder I'm I'm wondering if when that school bus was turning on its left blinker, its blinkers look almost exactly like the same ones for stop So, I don't know if you noticed on those three stops, they don't have red blinkers. It's the yellow blinkers, and then they put out the stop sign. So, when that school bus was slowing down to uh to turn right and it had its blinkers on, you noticed that Robo-Taxi was kind of halting. It It It was It was going forward, but it was kind of being hesitant. And I think that's why.

[00:20:32]So, it was getting ready to stop again if that school bus stopped there, which is great, which is exactly what it should do on a road like this since you're on the same side of a divided road.

[00:20:47]But, it was being a little hesitant.

[00:20:49]Y'all have to look at that again. It definitely had the right blinker on, but I'll I want to see what the blinkers were doing there. It's the same blinkers it was using when it was giving you the heads-up that the kids that it was about to stop and let kids out. So, I am perfectly fine with that.

[00:21:10]Let them make their right turn, get on through safely, and then proceed.

[00:21:18]And nobody honked at us.

[00:21:20]So, something tells me that if it's 5:00 in the afternoon on a Friday near school bus and nobody honked at me, they were probably thinking the same thing.

[00:21:48]All right.

[00:21:50]Four-way stop up here.

[00:22:00]Our turn to go through. No hesitation whatsoever. Very confident. Great job.

[00:22:05]And lots of traffic at that intersection. So, you know how that is with a lot of traffic at a busy intersection.

[00:22:17]Nobody's taking their right turn.

[00:22:19]>> [laughter] >> But, Robo-Taxi was confident.

[00:22:23]All right. We may actually be going through a school zone here. I can't tell if that's a school or not.

[00:22:32]Usually school zones aren't active this late anyway, but we'll see.

[00:22:48]Oh, nice move.

[00:22:50]Nice move.

[00:22:56]All right.

[00:22:58]We are at the intersection of Jones Road and Fallbrook.

[00:23:06]It's about 5 more minutes.

[00:23:08]And like I said, at this next stop, I will I am going to stop for a bit, get something to eat, and then we'll do our third and final ride of the day and go back to uh Willowbrook.

[00:23:22]Man, I am still just so jazzed about how it um did so well with that school bus. Three times.

[00:23:36]The trifecta.

[00:23:38]The trio.

[00:23:40]The hat trick.

[00:23:55]We don't really have that far to go, but it is uh guaranteed to be busy. And it does look like we're going to do a U-turn.

[00:24:06]So, that'll be interesting.

[00:24:09]At 5:00 in the afternoon on a Friday on 1960 Ooh, Lord.

[00:24:17]All right. Got this truck right behind And he is all over the place.

[00:24:23]So, this What the hell was that?

[00:24:28]I just heard like a little hiss sound. Like a half a second to 1 second.

[00:24:36]I don't know what that was.

[00:24:39]Yeah, that uh Chevy Silverado was just all over the place, but we handled that well. All right, we're getting up to the let them go, and then it's our turn to go.

[00:25:06]People coming through, but nobody noticing.

[00:25:15]All right.

[00:25:16]We're going to be turning left up here on 1960. It's probably going to take us a little while. You can see how backed up it is here.

[00:25:23]That's all right.

[00:25:25]But, in fact, I'm going to just for now put that right there.

[00:25:36]There we go.

[00:25:52]I'm going to Let's see.

[00:26:18]All right.

[00:26:22]It's probably going to We're probably going to have to sit through this light again, would be my guess.

[00:26:31]Let's see.

[00:26:33]Oh, we're going to get through Holy moly.

[00:26:36]Well, thank you, city of Houston, for uh Man, okay, I was not expecting that >> [laughter] >> at all.

[00:26:51]Man.

[00:26:55]Yeah, I was I was expecting to sit through that light at least one more time, but uh the city of Houston has that one timed out really good. All right, make sure to gather your belongings.

[00:27:09]All right, you can see we're going to be doing a U-turn up here to get over to Firehouse Subs. Here we go.

[00:27:25]Going to get in here.

[00:27:31]Now, one thing that's interesting, the last time X Man Alive and I went to Firehouse Subs and it did a U-turn, it went all it it went all the way up to the light up there. And this time, it's properly I mean, even better from a navigational standpoint, you've got to turn right here where you can do it.

[00:27:51]So, let's see how we do. Now, we got a truck coming. We don't want that, and we've got more traffic coming, but we should So, we got a few more. We should have an opening right about now.

[00:28:12]Excellent job.

[00:28:14]Wow.

[00:28:16]On 1960 at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday afternoon.

[00:28:25]That was just phenomenal.

[00:28:31]All right, we're going to be pulling into the parking lot of Firehouse Subs here in a second.

[00:28:48]Now, last time, it did not pull all the way up to Firehouse Subs. It went right Yep, it's going to do the same thing.

[00:28:55]All right, let me gather my belongings.

[00:28:58]All right.

[00:29:00]Let's finish the ride.

[00:29:03]Yes.

[00:29:08]All right, it's finished.

[00:29:14]There it goes.

[00:29:24]Excellent.

[00:29:26]Wow.

[00:29:30]Great job.