Tesla Cybercab Testing Expanded to 22 States and About 77 Cities in the U.S., Covering Over Half of the Urban Population
Cybercab Testing Covers 22 States and 77 Cities in the U.S.
Tesla's Cybercab testing has expanded to 22 states and about 77 cities in the U.S., covering urban populations exceeding half of the country.
This model is a steering wheel-less and pedal-less vehicle designed specifically for Robotaxi, currently in continuous mass production at Gigafactory Texas, and conducting public road engineering tests and validations in multiple locations.
The unsupervised mileage for Robotaxi has exceeded 380,000 miles, maintaining a double-digit weekly growth rate. The Cybercab serves as a dedicated platform for accumulating chassis-specific data and software validation.
Uninterrupted production and multi-state simultaneous testing are seen as direct indicators of FSD progress; only by maintaining high unsupervised mileage growth can these vehicles be put into actual operation.
This deployment is driven by technical validation, with funds and resources focused on accumulating autonomous driving data and regulatory compliance, benefiting Tesla's Robotaxi network expansion while putting pressure on traditional mobility services that rely on human drivers.
Source: Public Information
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Since launching the Model Y Robotaxi service in Austin in 2025, Tesla has gradually shifted towards unsupervised operations while simultaneously advancing Cybercab mass production. The strategy is to accumulate software mileage with existing models and then scale up using dedicated hardware, avoiding early hardware limitation bottlenecks.
On the capital front, the company is prioritizing manufacturing capability through continuous production line investment and multi-state testing networks, motivated by the desire to seize regulatory windows and data moats, while signaling FSD maturity to the market through production rhythm.
Similar cases can be seen with Waymo's gradual expansion across multiple cities and Cruise's early scaling attempts; Tesla is currently in an intermediate stage transitioning from software validation to hardware scaling, shifting its industry position from experimental fleet to potential large-scale deployment readiness.
Essentially, this represents a technological substitution: a dedicated unmanned vehicle platform replacing modified passenger cars, with the mechanism accelerating FSD iteration through a high-mileage unsupervised data feedback loop, while locking in future Robotaxi supply capacity and restructuring the cost and safety framework of mobility services.
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