Safety
NHTSA issued a Special Order telling Tesla to show under oath how the Cybercab meets federal safety standards, with a deadline of 30 September. Not answering fully and truthfully can bring penalties of up to $139 million. No result had been announced by early October.
A crash, recall, injury or investigation
What the source says
“Failing to answer fully and truthfully carries penalties of up to $139 million.”
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.