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Tesla will begin producing the Cybercab, an autonomous electric vehicle with no pedals or steering wheel, this April at its factory in Austin, Texas, CEO Elon Musk said during the company\u2019s shareholder meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n
His comments on Cybercab came just moments after shareholders overwhelmingly approved<\/a> a compensation package for Musk that could be worth as much as $1 trillion in company shares \u2014 the largest in corporate history. <\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got the first car that is specifically built for unsupervised, full self-driving to be a robotaxi called a Cybercab \u2014 it doesn\u2019t even have pedals or steering wheel,\u201d Musk said, adding there will be no side mirrors either. \u201cIt\u2019s very much optimized for the lowest cost-per-mile in an autonomous mode and production is happening right here in this factory, and we\u2019ll be starting production in April next year.\u201d<\/p>\n Tesla has yet to demonstrate that its cars are capable of driving themselves at scale without a safety monitor, despite years of promises.<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s comments seem to conflict with Tesla chairwoman Robyn Denholm, who recently told Bloomberg<\/a> the Cybercab would include a steering wheel and pedals as a backup plan. Tesla once planned to make a version of the Cybercab with a wheel and pedals, but Musk killed the idea and opted instead<\/a> to make very stripped-down versions of its cheapest cars. <\/p>\n Musk went on tout how the Cybercab would be produced, claiming the manufacturing line would have a 10-second cycle time \u2014 a massive acceleration from the one-minute cycle time to assemble a Model Y. Musk said this could mean producing two to three million Cybercabs in a year.<\/p>\n \u201cSo these will be everywhere in the future,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Tesla first revealed the Cybercab in October 2024 during its splashy \u201cWe, Robot\u201d event<\/a> at Warner Bros. Discovery studio\u00a0in California with a promise to eventually sell the vehicles for personal use. <\/p>\n Since then, Tesla has launched a very bare-bones robotaxi service, but not with the proposed Cybercab. The service, which launched in June in certain parts of Austin, uses Model Y SUVs equipped with what Musk has described as a new, \u201cunsupervised\u201d version of Tesla\u2019s Full Self-Driving software.\u00a0A Tesla employee sits in the passenger seat on these driverless rides.<\/p>\n Putting a Cybercab \u2014 or any vehicle on the road without standard equipment like a steering wheel \u2014 will require approval from federal regulators. Earlier this year, Amazon-backed Zoox managed to get an exemption and even then it has been only to demonstrate its custom-built robotaxis<\/a> on public roads. Zoox is still seeking an exemption that would allow it operate a commercial robotaxi service. <\/p>\n The regulatory process for those exemptions is a long and sticky one. General Motors tried and failed to get approval for a its custom-built Cruise Origin vehicle, for example. Waymo, the dominant robotaxi service provider in the U.S., has stuck to its modified Jaguar I-Pace vehicles that still have traditional controls. Waymo is also developing a vehicle with Zeekr.<\/p>\n Musk didn\u2019t seem phased by the potential for regulators to thwart his plans and thanked Waymo for \u201cpaving the path.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think we\u2019ll be able to deploy all the Cybercabs that we produce,\u201d he said in response to a shareholder question at the annual meeting. \u201cOnce it becomes like, extremely normal in cities, it\u2019s just going to become like\u2026 the regulators will have just fewer and fewer reasons to say no.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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