Tesla Launches Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi In Austin (businessinsider.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/09/04/0427208/tesla-launches-steering-wheel-free-cybercab-robotaxi-in-austin
- Source link: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybercab-robotaxi-launch-event-austin-self-driving-car-2026-9
Texas records show Tesla had registered 45 Cybercabs as of Thursday, though the company has not disclosed how many are currently carrying passengers. Tesla also says it eventually wants consumers to be able to buy the vehicles for under $30,000. Business Insider reports:
> Videos posted online by Tesla influencers and content creators who were invited to the Austin event showed that the Cybercab can be hailed through the Robotaxi app. In a [2]video posted by David Moss , an autonomous-vehicle content creator, Robotaxi users could open the car's butterfly doors through the app. After the riders enter the car, the doors closed automatically, Moss said in the video. The launch comes nearly two years after Tesla first [3]unveiled the Cybercab at its "We, Robot" event in Burbank, California.
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybercab-robotaxi-launch-event-austin-self-driving-car-2026-9
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVXfRsvnZJ0
[3] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/11/0328206/elon-musk-unveils-tesla-cybercab-robovan-and-updated-optimus-robot
Let me think (Score:3)
Buy a car where there are no mechanical linkages from the 'passenger' to vehicle control systems: Everything is a touch-screen element totally at the mercy of a corporation. What could go wrong?
Not only that (Score:2)
On a more practical front - if there's an emergency how TF are emergency teams supposed to move the car out of the way or get it on the back of a tow truck easily if they can't fecking well steer it and the computer is dead?
This is just yet more tech for its own sake. Musk needs to realise sci-fi is not a how-to manual, its entertainment.
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> Buy a car where there are no mechanical linkages from the 'passenger' to vehicle control systems: Everything is a touch-screen element totally at the mercy of a corporation. What could go wrong?
Anyone for what could go right? Like NOT being harmed or killed by yet another distracted driver drunk on 100-proof doomscrolling behind the wheel?
Yeah. We do know what possibly could go wrong. But until we address what definitely goes wrong every day, put the fucking junkie in the backseat and let the machine drive. It’s a lot more sobering event. For all of us.
Yes. This is the “answer” when you cater to grown-ass children as we now do. You coddled immaturity. Then they all grew u
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This is a taxi service - the kidult would already be sitting in the back in a normal cab. The ONLY thing this achieves is
A) Putting taxi drivers out of work (seems to be a Musk fetish)
B) Making it harder to move the car if the systems fail because no steering wheel.
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> This is a taxi service - the kidult would already be sitting in the back in a normal cab. The ONLY thing this achieves is A) Putting taxi drivers out of work (seems to be a Musk fetish) B) Making it harder to move the car if the systems fail because no steering wheel.
When the new car price goes from $50,000 to $70,000 in the next decade..along with $500/month insurance premiums accounting for the unitard chassis idiocy putting the frame on the outside of the car to completely total your chances of avoiding negative equity, you’ll realize we’re not just building a taxi cab network for the next generation.
Were telling the next generation they won’t be responsible for learning how to drive. Which also means personal autonomy is dead. And sadly, damn nea
Launches? (Score:2)
Launches!
As a limited demo product
In the handful of areas Tesla self driving taxis have been approved for testing
Later, after we start in Austin
Elon Musk level launch!
Will these be cheaper? (Score:2, Interesting)
Will it be cheaper to ride in a no-driver vehicle than in a regular old taxi or Uber? Because if it is (and the programming was such that I could put luggage or some other item on there and not have to worry about the vehicle disappearing with my stuff) I would absolutely want to use it when I need to move something too big for the bus or train.
Re: Will these be cheaper? (Score:3)
Nothing is ever going to be cheaper than the thing before it.
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Well, in the long run it'll probably be cheaper for the owners , but obviously they won't be passing those savings along to the consumers.
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> Nothing is ever going to be cheaper than the thing before it.
Go back 100 years and tell me how many 1926 dollars you would need to buy one of those newfangled automobiles. Think you’ll find millionaires bragging about how “cheap” they are?
Go back 50 years and buy a personal computer. If you are important enough to sell it to, you’ll find out the price because you know what they say. If you gotta ask, it must be..cheaper?
Do I dare ask a teenager to look at a cell phone bill from 25 years ago? Back when you paid per text message each way (in
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>> Nothing is ever going to be cheaper than the thing before it.
> Go back 100 years and tell me how
Eh? I thought the nutter must have been being ironic. You telling me he's actually just a moron? No!?
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I don't see why'd it make sense to make many cybercabs because by 2016 all Tesla cars will be self driving and you'll be able to just send your own Tesla to run cab overnight and just make you money passively.