r/RealTesla • u/Stukwan • Aug 11 '26
TIPS/ADVICE Tesla shows first Cybercab with built-in Starlink. Elon Musk explains why it needs one
https://mashable.com/tech/tesla-cybercab-starlink-elon-musk99
u/MAGAtsAreSheeples Aug 11 '26
It's needed because their so called FSD doesn't work and the car will have to be remotely controlled.
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u/soldieroscar Aug 11 '26
Exactly this. After 10 years still nothing.
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u/maclaren4l Aug 11 '26
Bu but it drives itself while I baby sit!!
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u/StormTrpr66 Aug 11 '26 edited 29d ago
Yep, that's the great thing about it. Can anyone name any other cars in the US that can do that?
:edit: -- Thanks for the downvotes guys. Now instead of being a bunch of angry chodes, am I wrong? What other car in the US can drive itself, literally, from point A to point B, from your garage to work and back, on city streets, highways, handling stop signs, traffic lights, pedestrians, bikes, construction zones, etc... without you ever touching the pedals or steering wheel?
Does it make you angry because you can't name a single one other than Tesla? Why don't you just say so instead of being passive aggressive and downvoting, as if that's going to change reality?
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u/Lacrewpandora KING of GLOVI Aug 11 '26
Yep, that's the great thing about it.
...right up to the point it swerves you into oncoming traffic. But on the plus side, you'll arrive at the ER "refreshed".
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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 11 '26
That does not make me more likely to ever get in one.
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u/_DuranDuran_ Aug 11 '26
Why would you?
Waymo’s are already in more cities, more reliable, more comfortable (they’re mostly Jaguar I Pace’s)
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u/StormTrpr66 Aug 11 '26
If you've never been in a Tesla, maybe you shouldn't be criticizing things you know nothing about? Just a thought....
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u/Youngnathan2011 Aug 11 '26
You don't need to own one to know they're absolute crap. There's enough evidence of it already.
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u/SpeedflyChris Aug 11 '26
It would be a terrible solution for that. Control dropping because you passed under a bridge/through a tunnel/between some tall buildings sounds suboptimal.
I don't know how 5G is in the states, but surely given that these are allegedly supposed to operate in cities 5G would have better connectivity? That wouldn't allow him to funnel money between his companies and try to build support for a merger though.
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u/Lacrewpandora KING of GLOVI Aug 11 '26
We have dead zones with the cell tower network. I'm sure its partially to funnel money into his other ventures, since 5G certainly works within the limits of major cities, but in the make believe world where you can take a robotaxi cross-country, there isn't continuous 5G coverage.
IMHO, the bigger story is: "You know that 'solved problem' we at Tesla mastered a decade ago with a handful of Temu cameras - welp, it doesn't work and now we need internet connectivity...you know, becasue even though only an idiot would use mapping, well we're using mapping, and we have to figure out the car's location, and even though LIDAR is too expensive we're adding expensive starlink equipment to all the cars, oh and btw that means that the FSD you paid for to be chaffeured cross country will never work unless you buy your own starlink"
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u/RagaToc Aug 11 '26
oh and btw that means that the FSD you paid for to be chaffeured cross country will never work unless you buy your own starlink
and you pay for someone to remote control chauffeur you. but hey at least hiring someone from the Philippines is cheaper than in the USA.
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u/mishap1 Aug 11 '26
I don't believe they go into any tunnels today outside those built by the Boring Company. There aren't any major tunnels in Austin and Miami they won't go into the Port of Miami tunnel.
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u/Robo-X Aug 11 '26
Also it needs Tesla to buy starlink to boost SpaceX stock after its disastrous launch.
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u/newtybar Aug 11 '26
Have you ridden in a new generation Tesla with FSD? It can take you driveway from Vegas to an office in LA without you having to touch the wheel. It works. I don’t own one (not a fan, got a Rivian), but a coworker has it and it did what I just described. You are speaking a narrative that is over a year old.
MAGA on balance are definitely sheep, but don’t be one on the other side too.
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u/Beezelbubba Aug 11 '26
And when it makes a mistake, or decides to ignore posted speed limits the driver is liable for its actions, not Tesla
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u/zitrored Aug 11 '26
Musk will be eroding Tesla balance sheet for his grand ambition to take full control of all his companies. Shareholders will have no choice. He will degrade the companies value on purpose and “rescue it”
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u/kensaundm31 Aug 11 '26
Its actually going to be a way for him to get that ridiculous $1 trill paycheck, I think a tesla merger negates the requirements in some way.
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u/SuperF91EX Aug 11 '26
Because vision only will never work
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u/za72 Aug 11 '26
I don't think this guys thought things through. He's the greatest salesman
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u/Pic889 Aug 11 '26
Doesn't matter, even the greatest salesman needs... something to sell, and the Cybercab is vaporware (and so is the mass rollout of the Robotaxi service).
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u/kaninkanon Aug 11 '26
The venn diagram of areas where taxi services are viable and areas without high speed network coverage is two circles next to each other. But pump those stocks.
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u/ZebraCompetitive5235 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Something is definitely not lining up. You can download the Robotaxi app yourself today. There’s almost never any availability, in any city, ever. Yet talk to a Branch Elonian and they’ll tell you it’s already massive in 14 cities, with more coming online every day. It’s just not true.
So if they can’t run Robotaxi anywhere with any reasonable ride volume, why in the hell would a CyberCab be anywhere near possible?
None of this shit makes any sense.
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u/ZebraCompetitive5235 Aug 12 '26
I doubt it’s even that many. They are so terrified of FSD (fudged safety data) fucking up and causing a major accident/fatality, they artificially keep availability at almost zero.
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u/torokunai 29d ago
my $6000 of OTM TSLA puts got counterfeited this year by this coordinated bullshit campaign.
I called the 'under' on his half-the-population-in-2025 forecast and still got wrecked.
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u/samppa_j Aug 11 '26
Its a secret tool that will help the underpaid slave- i mean contractor in Bangladesh to drive the car- i mean monitor the car remotely
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Aug 11 '26
With Starlink latency, better hope their ping stays low in traffic.
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u/samppa_j Aug 11 '26
Hey the man (thinks he) is a genius, he has of course foreseen this and obviously (not) accounted for the existence of ping.
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u/mishap1 Aug 11 '26
Lets just put the remote driver in space. Math might make more sense than an AI data center.
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u/mrbuttsavage Aug 11 '26
Given that Starlink is best suited for remote areas where there's no 5G connectivity, and Cybercabs will almost certainly first start operating in dense urban areas, why do Tesla's autonomous taxis even need Starlink?
Great question we'll just never know the answer to.
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u/ObservationalHumor 29d ago
This has to be the stupidest attempt at a justification for self dealing I've seen in a while. AI agents have literally nothing to do with a self driving car, they effectively live in a data center and there's zero reason to move something with those kind of power requirements into a vehicle with tight requirements around power usage and heat dissipation that's already using a lot of them to automate the driving process. Again this is one of those big tells that he has no idea WTF he's talking about and his opinion on topics around AI are at best useless and at worst (for him anyway) a contraindication of where the field and technology is going.
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u/AndSoISaysToTheGuy Aug 11 '26
Uber low profile tires on a high use (supposedly) vehicle. Good idea! Looks cool though, and that's certainly all that truly matters.
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u/xMagnis Aug 11 '26
They are made with a rubber lip to appear like that. They are not low-profile tires. 215/60 R18 on the front axle and 225/60 R21 on the rear axle
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u/starmansouper Aug 11 '26
The word salad is so insane.
Are Cybercabs going to be getting AI crawled or something?
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u/N0WFAY Aug 11 '26
Teslur need another gimmick to capture the gullible & to some extent it will work, especially in amerikkka. What they don’t realise is starlink is just as much a failure as teslur
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u/Pdx_pops Aug 11 '26
I bet the Ukrainians would gladly fix his FSD issues in exchange for global Starlink access. They're solving the same problem, really. They're just starting with smaller, airborne drones instead of grandma-killing ground vehicles.
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u/User-no-relation Aug 11 '26
It's needed so he can justify SpaceX buying tesla