EP 72 - Cybercabs Are Everywhere… We Need to Talk

It's this Thursday, September 3rd, and this is the vehicle that is built from the ground up for autonomy.

It has those butterfly wings.

It's gold.

There's no steering wheel, no pedals.

Of course, it was launched two years ago, but now we're going to actually see it.

Now, the internet's very divided on this.

Of

course.

Of course, of course.

Some people say that it's all about the photos and it's really just a big stock pump for Tesla.

And then other people are saying, no, this is actually huge and it's really happening now.

It's a monumental moment.

Absolutely.

When you consider how many Robotaxi services are currently available in the United States between the main three or four players, none of them have one without a steering wheel, without a pedal.

So just optically, that already makes this seem very serious off the bat.

So that's why it's such an important moment.

Now, of course, Tesla has the Model Y robotaxi that is running.

Where exactly, how many places is that running right now?

So when you're talking about robotaxis without humans sitting in the passenger seat, there are six cities, three in Texas, Austin, Houston, Dallas, three in Florida, that's Tampa, Orlando, and Miami.

That's it.

In the Bay Area now in California, there is a robo taxi service and Model Ys.

Those have a supervisor sitting on the passenger side.

Of course, Nevada recently got permits as well.

But when it comes to those Model Ys, it's spread across six cities in those two states.

And Tesla says they've actually covered about 400,000 miles of unsupervised driving between those six cities.