Talk:Tesla Cybercab

Some additional sources: the webcast, and early video reviews by media sites

• We, Robot, webcast, Tesla, 10 October 2024.
• Elon Musk Reveals 2 New Revolutionary Cars!, Farzad! He did a (apparently) full cut of the Elon Musk remarks, with all the pauses & crowd stuff cut out. Very efficient! if you want a synopsis of what Musk said, in his own words; in 13 minutes. Including: "we'll overspec the computer—our HW5 computer—used in the Cybercab... because there is an opportunity to potentially have a massive amount of distributed inference compute" like Amazon Web Services; good business return on the computer use even when the Cybercab is not driving. ...
• a 25-minute video review by Top Gear: FIRST RIDE: Tesla Robotaxi – Our Driverless Future Has Arrived! clarifying that "these are prototypes; not the finished thing". Seats are "super flat, and super loungy. Very comfortable and very reclined." Two-seater: statistic: 90% of all ride-sharing rides are just 1 or 2 people. Robovan look, including a quick interview with Franz, the designer. Contact with the Optimus robot (price ~25-30k$), weird "interview" with Optimus. "has come a long way since we last saw that Optimus." Guest appearance by Marques Brownlee in the middle of the video. "Tech demos are hard, and I've seen a lot failed tech demos over the years. And if you told me that a company in 2024 would roll out, would have robots walking around serving drinks, would have a drone show, and would have dozens of self-driving cars all doing laps, and stopping, and not crashing, and there would be no incidents. I'd be very impressed." And, in a second drive in a Cybercab: "I'm gonna have a beer. Because, I'm not driving."
• Elon Musk unveils Cybercab at Tesla robotaxi event, BBC summary + interview with analyst Seth Goldstein, MorningStar. Stock did a single-day decline; Goldstein thinks bigger news might be that Tesla is planning to do "unsupervised full self-driving in Texas & California" beginning in 2025.
• Tesla Unveils CYBERCAB & RoboVAN!, Tailosive EV. "There were Robots dancing, serving drinks, and handing out snacks." "[Applause to Franz for gorgeous design. No side-view mirrors, very aerodynamic, a two-seater, and a ton of storage in the back.]" "The event was light on specs, ... but I'm okay with that." ... since Tesla's numbers provided at unveilings never seem to work out too well for them." Tesla is going to have Robotaxis in the fleet owned by Tesla, but anyone is going to be able to buy one (or a few) and supervise your personal fleet of automated virtual-Uber cars out working for you. N2e (talk) 20:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Tesla Network into Tesla Cybercab

There is no Tesla Network nor anything close to being such. It is passing mention at event and in one of the sources. Can just be a sentence in Cybercab article. ZimZalaBim ^talk 14:53, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

• OPPOSE—the concept of a Tesla ride-hailing network, run by Tesla, and exclusively using Tesla vehicles, has been mentioned by Tesla for some time. So the OP premise that its "passing mention at event" may be a reason for the proposed merge is, at best, very incomplete. This recent event was mostly about the unveiling a vehicle (Cybercab or Robotaxi; both terms were used) and not much at all about the ride-hailing service that such vehicles would operate on. Media sources have noted Tesla's statements about having their own car-sharing service for some time. So if you want that article to be improved (more background history, or more sources, etc.) that would be great. Or if the article is mistitled and you would want to propose a WP:MOVE; again, that'd be fine. But the idea that Wikipedia should not have an article on a Tesla ride-hailing service that has been spoken of for some time, and analysts have even mentioned for inclusion in financial models for the TSLA stock over the longer term, is simply not appropriate. The new Tesla Network is clearly notable, already today, in 2024. Merging it into just one of the five or more vehicles that will be a part of the network now would just force a new article to be created in short order. N2e (talk) 02:13, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

Show me the sources that this "has been mentioned by Tesla for some time" and that it has received non-trivial coverage. This really seems like vaporware and should just be a mention in a related article. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 20:27, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

This is covered in the article, with multiple reliable sources. See Tesla Network. The OP belief that it was merely a "passing mention" at the recent "We, Robot" event that Tesla held in October is simply incorrect. Cheers. N2e (talk) 01:23, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Article needs a photo

This article really needs a photograph. Surely some person of the hundreds who took photos at the unveiling event will have released photos with one of the CC-compliant licenses. N2e (talk) 21:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

• Here is a very nice image with a top-down unique view, showing what is indeed likely to be a shape that makes the drag coefficient super low. But it is not license compliant. N2e (talk) 02:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Added this image;

Front of the Tesla Cybercab

the only Cybercab image I could find on Wikimedia with the correct license.

Leaving the reqphoto tag, as the article still yet needs an ordinary car angle view image to be the standard article photo. N2e (talk) 11:25, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed, an editor has now added several photos from better angles. Removing the {reqphoto} tag today. N2e (talk) 01:25, 19 November 2024 (UTC)