- A take a look at mule of Tesla’s upcoming robotaxi has allegedly been noticed in Los Angeles.
- The automobile will debut on the Warner Bros. Discovery film studio on October 10.
A take a look at mule of what appears to be Tesla’s upcoming robotaxi has been noticed by a Reddit consumer who claims to work on the Warner Bros. studio in Los Angeles the place the reveal of the so-called “Cybercab” is slated to happen on October 10.
The brilliant yellow prototype within the photograph embedded under seems to be a closely camouflaged two-door with Mannequin 3-like headlights. In keeping with Boopitysmopp, the consumer who posted the picture, the automobile additionally has a full-width LED gentle strip on the rear akin to that of the Cybertruck.
The entire thing seems like a life-size Matchbox automobile and it’d turn into only a unhealthy joke, so we’re taking this with a grain of salt. However after throwing the placement, the form of the facet home windows and the automobile’s brief wheelbase in the identical bag, it leads us to consider that this might be Tesla’s long-awaited self-driving taxi.
Right here’s a side-by-side comparability of the mule and an InsideEVs rendering of what we consider the completed product will appear to be, based mostly on patents and snippets extracted from varied Tesla movies printed over time:


An illustration of the upcoming Tesla Cybercab was additionally printed in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk, as you’ll be able to see under:
In latest months, Musk has stopped referring to Tesla as being an all-electric automobile producer and has as an alternative steered the dialog towards synthetic intelligence and robotics and has lengthy hinted at the concept Tesla EVs–each previous and new–might quickly be a part of a worldwide community of autonomous automobiles that will exit and drive folks on their very own to the good thing about their homeowners.
Because of this, the upcoming Cybercab is a giant deal for Tesla’s outspoken CEO. Will it’s the large revolution that Musk has touted? We’re skeptical. The automaker’s so-called Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) options are nonetheless thought-about Stage 2 methods on SAE’s autonomy chart. Moreover, the authorized framework at present in place nonetheless doesn’t permit for totally autonomous automobiles roaming the streets and highways of america, so there’s nonetheless some work to be performed.
That stated, Tesla desires to verify every part goes as easily as attainable throughout subsequent month’s occasion. After slowing gross sales globally, the automaker–AI and robotics firm, sorry–has been gathering mapping knowledge within the space the place the occasion will happen, in response to Enterprise Insider and famed Tesla hacker Inexperienced The Solely.
That is smart from a efficiency standpoint, nevertheless it additionally goes towards each considered one of Musk’s statements on self-driving automobiles, who criticized rival automakers and robotaxi operators for counting on beforehand collected map knowledge to make their driverless automobiles work in sure geofenced areas.
We’ll see what occurs subsequent month through the Tesla Cybercab reveal. If it will likely be something just like the Cybertruck reveal in 2019, set your timer for a minimum of three years from now to test again on whether or not the automobile is prepared for prime time or not.