About two years after first revealing the golden, two-seat taxi, Tesla officially launched the Cybercab at a private event in Austin on Thursday.
Tesla influencers were able to take some of the first quasi-public rides in Cybercabs, which are built from the ground up to be autonomous and lack steering wheels, pedals, and mirrors. On Friday, Cybercab rides opened to the broader public—giving patrons of its Robotaxi service another vehicle option beyond the driverless Model Ys already in its fleet.
It’s undoubtedly a big moment for Tesla and for its CEO, who has been promising for over a decade that Tesla would someday deliver a gleaming, self-driving future for all. The company’s biggest fans have wasted no time taking victory laps on X. But throughout all the promises of “1 million robotaxis by 2020” and “unsupervised Full Self-Driving next year, for sure,” the competition hasn’t just waited around.
Elon Musk has staked Tesla's future on autonomous vehicles like the Cybercab.
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