• 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 latestrobotaxi status checkshowing 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: First Cybercab off the production line at Giga Texaspic.twitter.com/kY8vCqtrCA While this is the first production unit, continuous production is not expected to start until April.
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