Self-driving
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.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“Cybercab Spotter counted 1,250 Cybercab sightings in Austin on Saturday, qualifying day. The previous high was 1,072 on October 16.”
What it means
Cybercab, from Tesla, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
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.
- 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.
- 169 Cybercabs were registered to operate in Austin, according to a fan news site using Texas DMV data. Registration does not show how many carry riders.