The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk’s years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.

Tesla says it has started engineering tests of its first production Cybercab on public roads in Austin, marking the first time a customer-spec unit of the purpose-built robotaxi has been validated outside the factory.
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Tesla’s Cybercab has entered volume production at Gigafactory Texas, but the autonomous robotaxi still depends on FSD software that crashes four times more often than human drivers.
It’s a new era for Tesla — and one that will rely on its ability to launch the Cybercab and mass-produce the Optimus robot.