The drone footage of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, provides new insight into the production and delivery status of its Cybercab robotaxi.
Around 30 Tesla Cybercabs were spotted at the Giga Texas outbound lot on Monday. All of these vehicles were parked at the lot for deliveries across several Tesla locations across the United States.
Interestingly, a covered car carrier trailer was seen loading these small electric vehicles for delivery to their destinations. According to Giga Texas’s local observer Joe Tegtmeyer, these Cybercab robotaxis are engineering test units, not intended for customer deliveries.
Tesla (TSLA) began the production of these Cybercab test vehicles at Giga Texas last month. However, according to the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, the first Cybercab will be handed over to a customer before 2027.
🚨 Wait… how does this even work without a steering wheel?? 😳 https://t.co/6ytGxlmVcp pic.twitter.com/b827EUDZqM
— Teslasti Basti (@BastianBraun121) March 9, 2026
Key Observations
Tesla Cybercabs appearing at the Giga Texas outbound lot are early pilot production units. These engineering test units are equipped with a steering wheel, brake, and accelerator pedal.
This is interesting, as Tesla has marketed the Cybercab as an autonomous robotaxi. The prototypes used for promotions don’t have a steering wheel or the brake and accelerator pedals.
The video captured by Joe shows humans taking the driver’s seat in these test units and driving them onto the car carrier trailers.
In the past, car teardown expert Sandy Munro predicted that Tesla would also launch a customer version of this car, probably named Model 2. These customer cars will be the most affordable Teslas and have steering wheels, but still have full autonomous capabilities to run Tesla Full Self-Driving AI.
Instead of the side mirrors, blue tape is installed on both sides of these pilot production Cybercab units. This is a placeholder so that side mirrors can be installed later on.
Another, less important but interesting observation is that Tesla is using specially designed car carriers to transport Cybercab vehicles.
If you closely observe the following drone photo, these trailers are covered at the top. There’s also a rear cover that’s closed after the trailer is fully loaded. Sides also have curtains to completely hide these vehicles.
Apparently, Tesla does not want to reveal these vehicles while they are being transported across cities and highways. The automaker is sending these Cybercabs to different cities and states for autonomous AI training and testing.
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