Tesla has announced that employee rides in its Cybercab are expected to begin soon at Gigafactory Texas, marking what the company describes as an early step for the wheel-less, pedal-less vehicle. The update came through Tesla’s Robotaxi account and was amplified by the main Tesla account, which said the rides would start at Giga Texas.
The announcement, however, left several important questions unanswered. Tesla did not say whether the Cybercab will operate on public roads, remain on private factory property, or serve employees through a limited internal route. The company also did not provide details on fleet size, routing, or how the rides would function in practice.
In the material Tesla shared, the vehicle was shown driving itself across an outbound lot at the Texas factory. That has led to two possible interpretations: either Tesla is preparing a campus-based employee shuttle, or it is simply demonstrating the vehicle moving around a parking area. The report noted that the latter would be far less significant than a true robotaxi deployment.
For now, the Cybercab is not part of Tesla’s paid robotaxi service in Austin. That fleet still uses Model Y vehicles with safety monitors, while Tesla’s broader effort to bring a fully driverless vehicle to market remains constrained by software rather than manufacturing capacity, according to the report.
Source: electrek.co
