Tesla is ramping up production of the Cybercab at Giga Texas, with more than 100 of the steering-wheel-less two-seaters already spotted in the factory’s outbound lots.
The problem is that Tesla can’t sell it to you, and it can’t yet drive itself without a human watching — which raises the obvious question of why Tesla is building the car at all right now.
A car with no steering wheel, and nowhere to go
The Cybercab has no steering wheel and no pedals. That’s the entire point of the design — it’s built to be a robotaxi, not a personal car. Tesla rolled the first steering-wheel-less unit off the line in February, and confirmed continuous production had started on its Q1 2026 earnings call in April.
Musk has described the ramp as a “stretched out S-curve” — slow now, “going kind of exponential towards the end of the year.” Tesla has designed the Cybercab to self-certify against all Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, which lets it sidestep NHTSA’s 2,500-unit annual cap on exemption vehicles and scale without a regulatory ceiling.
