Oliver Haslam on October 11, 2024, 6:50 pm

Tesla Announces Robotaxi Cybercab: A $30,000 Self-Driving Car Without Steering And Pedals Coming In 2026-27

After years of promises, Tesla has finally taken the wraps off the robotaxi that CEO Elon Musk has been making so much noise about.

Dubbed the Cybercab, the vehicle was announced at an event that brings to an end one of the longest sagas in tech history.

The taxi itself is set to launch following the arrival of fully autonomous driving in Texas and California next year, Tesla claims. The Cybercab itself isn’t going to enter production until 2026. with 2027 also a timeframe that Musk mentioned — as if hedging his bets and clearly learning from past mistakes.

The car will cost $30,000 and anyone, including regular consumers, will be able to buy it. The car will come with no steering or pedals with just one 20-inch center screen in center, and butterfly doors, along with wireless charging capability being the only way to charge the vehicle.

There are still plenty of questions surrounding the Cybercab of course, not least whether Tesla can meet its own deadlines or just how autonomous these things will be. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology still requires that a driver be paying full attention at all times, although there have been improvements in recent years as to how capable the EVs are in terms of looking after themselves.

Alongside the new Cybercab, Tesla is of course also working on the Optimus robot that will also cost upwards of $30,000. It’ll be capable of doing various things, with Tesla’s event showing the robot making drinks and, among other things, dancing.

Musk believes that autonomous cars will be up to 20 times safer than vehicles driven by humans, but the technology clearly has some way to go before we get there.

If you missed the We, Robot event, you can watch in full in the video embedded below: