Cybercabs will soon start ferrying Tesla employees at Giga Texas

Tesla Cybercabs will start ferrying passengers soon, but it's unclear how far, exactly, those rides will go.

The company's Robotaxi account on X posted a video showing a Cybercab driving people around the Giga Texas factory (have you noticed the giant fork stabbed into the ground?). The Cybercab shown in the video appears to be the real deal: butterfly doors, no steering wheel, no safety driver.

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The video's caption is only "Cool news from Giga Texas," but Tesla's official account retweeted the video with the caption "Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas starting soon."

While still far from commercial operation, this is a neat beta test for Tesla, and a sign that the Cybercab project is progressing well. Still, as Electrek pointed out, it's unclear whether these cars will actually traverse the entire Giga Texas campus, or whether they'll just run a loop around a parking lot.

Right now, the Tesla robotaxis you'll encounter in Austin are Tesla Model Ys, which is a sort of transition towards the Cybercab era. But Cybercabs haven't gotten the green light from regulators; indeed, no commercial robotaxi service in the U.S. currently runs with cars completely devoid of steering wheels.

This may change soon. Just last week, Jonathan Morrison, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told CNBC that the agency will "absolutely" consider ending its requirement that driverless cars include steering wheels. "If you're developing a vehicle that is designed never to be driven by a human operator, it doesn’t make any sense to require manual controls," he said.