Safety
NHTSA, the US road-safety agency, opened an audit query into how Tesla certified the Cybercab as meeting federal safety rules, including whether rules written for cars with pedals apply to it. It covers an estimated 1,000 vehicles.
A crash, recall, injury or investigation
What the source says
“Examination of the process and technical data on which Tesla relied when certifying the Cybercab and related issues.”
What it means
Cybercab, from Tesla, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Safety events don't move a stage on their own, but they stay on the robot's record.
Human help: The maker hasn't said whether people help it remotely.
More on Cybercab
- Tesla said on its third-quarter earnings call that Cybercab rides would launch in Dallas the following month, Teslarati reported.
- Robotaxi Tracker counted 463 Cybercabs on Texas's list of registered self-driving vehicles, 337 of them added in the previous 30 days, Electrek reported.
- Robotaxi Tracker, a site that crowdsources sightings of Tesla's robotaxis, counted 397 driverless vehicles in Austin, more than half of them Cybercabs, Electrek reported.
- Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering said its Texas Cybercab production line could build cars faster than Tesla could put them into service, so the line did not run every day.
- Cybercab Spotter, an account logging sightings, counted a record 1,250 Cybercab sightings in Austin on Formula 1 qualifying day; sightings count the same car more than once.
- Tesla said it was trying to deliver Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, adding that all Cybercabs built in Texas so far were going to its own Robotaxi fleet.