Tesla rolls first steering wheel-less Cybercab unit off the line before solving autonomy
Tesla shared today that the first Cybercab production unit has rolled off the assembly line at Gigafactory Texas. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no pedals. It is entirely dependent on autonomous driving software that, based on every available data point, Tesla has not solved — and is nowhere close to solving. Even the name “Cybercab” is not set in stone. The announcement comes on a day after we published our latest robotaxi status check showing that Tesla’s “Robotaxi” program in Austin is crashing at nearly four times the rate of human drivers, operates at just 19% availability, and has roughly 40 vehicles on the road eight months after launch. Tesla announced today that it produced its first Cybercab off its production line at Gigafactory Texas: Advertisement – scroll for more content While this is the first production unit, continuous production is not expected to start until April. The data doesn’t support the product Tesla’s robotaxi pilot in Austin, which uses Model Y vehicles equipped with the same “autonomous driving” technology as Cybercab, has …
