Tesla Cybercab Revealed With Production To Start In 2026, Maybe

So the Tesla Cybercab has been announced and in the concept art shared the car will have no steering wheel or pedals and it will ship for USD30,000.

He said the cars rely on artificial intelligence and cameras and do not need other hardware such as what robotaxi rivals use – an approach investors and analysts have flagged as challenging both from a technical and regulatory stand point.

“The autonomous future is here,” Musk said. “We have 50 fully autonomous cars here tonight. You’ll see model Ys and the Cybercab. All driverless.”

Musk also showcased a larger, self-driving vehicle – called Robovan – capable of carrying up to 20 people, and showed off Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot.

Now while all that sounds grand, here’s the grain of salt we’d like to throw in the cab.

First, the promise of a Cybercab or robotaxi as it was first known, was promised to arrive in 2020. We know the pandemic might have set this guesstimate of course a little but, hey, not by another 6 years right?

He also promised in 2017 that superchargers would use solar in the future (it hasn’t). There was talk of an affordable EV and minibus which we think you know does not exist.

In 2015 he was quoted as saying his Teslas would exceed the 1,000 km range (it doesn’t, but a team managed to squeeze out 900km, admittedly with a lot of hard work), and as early as 2022, he promised that Tesla would pay customers USD100 if their car appointments were rescheduled in less than 24 hours (they don’t, and they won’t).

If you’re interested in many of the promises Elon has made over the years that has not seen the light of day, click this link.

Hilariously, and in line with the Cybercab promise, Musk has promised full self-driving “next year” since 2013, a fact that’s even cemented on Wikipedia.

So is 23 year enough time to create fully self-driving cars? We’re not holding our breath.

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