Tesla has officially announced that the Cybercab autonomous vehicle has been officially put into production at the Texas Gigafactory. It is the world's first mass-produced L5 autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals, and no rearview mirrors. The car is positioned as a shared travel robotaxi. It has a two-door, two-seat, gull-wing door design. The body is made of stainless steel. It eliminates traditional driving control components and relies entirely on the FSD fully automatic driving system.
The core configuration is a pure vision Tesla Vision solution, equipped with 8 high-definition cameras and FSD V14 end-to-end model. The hardware is fully redundant and the safety is officially calibrated to be 10 times that of human driving.
The interior is minimalist, with only two seats and a large central control screen, without an instrument panel or driving position. The target cost is US$25,000-30,000 (approximately RMB 170,000-210,000), with a range of about 320 kilometers. It focuses on short-distance and high-frequency travel in the city.
The first mass-produced car without a steering wheel rolled off the production line in February, and large-scale production started in April; Tesla passed the self-certification compliance path and is not subject to the US NHTSA's annual autonomous driving exemption quota of 2,500 vehicles, and can expand production unlimitedly.
Musk said that the initial production capacity will be slow and will increase exponentially by the end of the year. The long-term plan is to have an annual production capacity of 2 million vehicles.
