Tesla's Cybercab has no steering wheel or pedals, but a hidden touchscreen joystick may let humans drive it

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Connecting the dots: Tesla's Cybercab may not have a steering wheel or pedals, but there may still be a way to drive it manually. A video posted on X shows an unusual in-car display setup: the touchscreen showing a virtual joystick that lets someone drive the robotaxi by dragging a finger across the screen. "When I got in the vehicle, the display was in a different configuration with a virtual joystick for manual driving," a rider wrote, adding that he had "a feeling I wasn't supposed to see this" before trying the feature out anyway.

The Cybercab runs on a single central touchscreen. In the video(below), it's split in two: a control panel on the left, the vehicle's camera view on the right. The left side includes the joystick, a prompt to...

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