Tesla released a safety report (more detailed than prior reports) on its autonomous driving.
The fine print says “with no safety monitor in the vehicle” but also says “including when a remote operator is assisting.”
Supervising is a form of assisting.
Tesla appears not to use wording like “(un)supervised” anywhere in the report (that I can find).
This report includes every collision Tesla reports to NHTSA under its Third Amended Standing General Order 2021-01 (SGO) [1] while Robotaxi is driving autonomously with no safety monitor in the vehicle, including when a remote operator is assisting or has taken control. The SGO covers collisions on publicly accessible roads while the automated driving system was engaged at any time in the 30 seconds before the crash sequence, including many with only minor property damage.
Edit to add:
The Q3 investor deck measures “autonomous” miles, a change from the Q2 deck which measured “paid robotaxi miles” (and showed slowing growth).
Yes, remote operators have occasionally hit things at very slow speeds. There are three instances of this in the crash data. You can pull that data up from a link in the safety report. If they didn’t include this data, there would be three fewer incidents. Telsa has already explained in gov’t filings that the remote operator speed is up to 2 mph or up to 10 mph if the FSD system allows it based on the surrounding area and is used as a last resort. So its not like remote operators are generally driving people around. I believe, the latency would likely not work well if they tried.