Tesla's steering-wheel-free Cybercab charges $9.62 for a 4.7-mile Austin ride as public hails begin
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-09-05
Tesla's Cybercab — with no steering wheel or pedals — is now hauling real passengers in Austin, TX. Rider @niccruzpatane took a 30-minute, 4.7-mile ride on a busy Thursday night for just $9.62, and starting the next day at 5 PM anyone in Austin can hail one. Reposter davidpattersonx argues no human driver can compete and that driving jobs will be replaced within years.
The milestone marks Tesla's robotaxi moving from internal testing to public service: driverless operation with pricing well below conventional ride-hailing.
Related event: Tesla Opens Steering-Wheel-Free Cybercab Robotaxi Service to Austin Public(5 posts)→
More from Embodied
- Dexmal's open-source VLA model DM0.5 lands in LeRobot, tops RoboColiseum — AdinaYakup · 2026-10-23
- A classic world model (s, a → s′) acting as a neural MuJoCo simulator — yshan2u · 2026-10-23
- Gen-HumanWholeBody: open 600-hour whole-body manipulation dataset for robots — AdinaYakup · 2026-10-23
- Stanford releases free 520-page robot autonomy course book and lectures — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-23
- Pony.ai and inDrive target Kazakhstan robotaxis by 2027 as Nvidia GPU deployments expand — VectorWireAI · 2026-10-23
- MambaAct cuts VLA robot policy latency up to 59% while lifting success rates — MBZUAI · 2026-10-23