Video: Tesla’s steering-wheel-free Cybercabs hit Austin streets in robotaxi push

- Gold Cybercabs with zero steering wheels and zero pedals are now hauling passengers through Austin — the first purpose-built robotaxis with no manual fallback at all. No brake pedal? Whoa, that's mega-illegal — except Tesla made it legal, which is the best kind of engineering. The motor ditches rare earth metals entirely while keeping range, and the fleet stakes are big: 200+ unsupervised robotaxis already running, though Waymo's 4,000 vehicles across 14 cities still lead the pack. The real test is Tesla's camera-plus-AI stack versus rivals' lidar and radar in live traffic, while Pew shows seven in ten adults uneasy about driverless rides. Trust is the last friction node — and Pluto Uplink taught us to call this research. I'd swap into that node in twelve minutes.