Tesla is considering multiple Texas cities where it wants to test its long-promised robotaxi service, including Austin. Emails obtained by Bloomberg News.

One employee had apparently been in contact with Austin officials since May and recently held an event in December to "train first responders on how to best work with Tesla's autonomous vehicle technology." This event is still under development.

“Austin is clearly on our roadmap, but it hasn't been decided yet where we will deploy first as we have many options available,” the employee told the city. (Tesla's often pitting multiple cities and states against each other When deciding where to do business; It caused a bidding war over the location of the original Gigafactory. Reportedly inspired Jeff Bezos Doing something similar when finding Amazon's second headquarters.)

According to the report, Tesla is not testing any vehicles on public streets. This is because, although it has been explained So-called "Cyber ​​Cabin" prototype in OctoberHowever, the company has not yet fulfilled the promise that CEO Elon Musk has been making for years to make a fully autonomous Tesla, let alone a robotaxi service.