Tesla’s Cybercab drove across a car park, and the real news happened two days earlier

Tesla has said Cybercab employee rides are starting soon at its Texas factory. The announcement came with a clip of a gold Cybercab, butterfly doors up and no steering wheel or pedals, driving itself across the outbound lot, Mashable reports.

Note the tense. Tesla said the rides are “starting soon”, not that they have started, and several outlets have already reported it the other way round.

That is the whole announcement. No route, no fleet size, and no word on whether the rides happen on public roads or entirely on Tesla’s own property.

What we are actually looking at

Strip away the framing and a car drove itself around a car park. Autonomous vehicles have managed that on private land for well over a decade.

Giga Texas is an enormous site with real internal roads, so a genuine campus shuttle would mean something. A loop across the outbound lot...

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