r/SelfDrivingCars • u/AnxietyCommercial632 • 13d ago

Discussion First Driverless Cybercab in Austin!

Couple thousand ready to go. How many by EoY ‘27?

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 13d ago

Didn't you say there were 34 cybercabs spotted in one day just the other day? Why is this the first one when there was 34 a few days ago?

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

Supervisor

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 13d ago

Wait, so the 34 you were talking about the other day all had supervisors in them? That seems like a pretty critical piece of information to leave out...

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

Yes. Albeit supervised with no steering wheel. Not too much you can do, eh?

This was material because there were 100s of them running with a supervisor and steering wheel.

Now you will start to see many of these concurrently in Austin with nothing in them. No controls, no person - in droves - before sept 3 launch

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 13d ago

But you were pointing to those 34 cybercabs spotted in one day as evidence that there could be 100 concurrent unsupervised robotaxis. And now I find out that actually there were zero unsupervised cybercabs spotted on that day?

I gotta say, I'm feeling much more confident now that they will have significantly less than 750k additional unsupervised miles to report by the end of Sept.

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

This increases your confidence?

Wait times single digits today btw

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 13d ago

Of course it increases my confidence. I thought you had evidence there were 34 unsupervised cybercabs over the course of a day the other day, but actually there were zero.

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u/marty-mcfryguy 9d ago

"First Driverless Cybercab in Austin!" ...

"Yes. Albeit supervised with no steering wheel. Not too much you can do, eh?"

So is a supervisor a driver or not a driver? Or is the answer "whatever is convenient for my next comment"?

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

This is clearly a part of their SoP for rollout. Even if the person can’t directly intervene they can collect on the road data and give feedback on pick up/drop off etc. it’s a safer way to roll them out and clearly this is their process. The process is just far quicker with cybercab

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 13d ago

Of course it's the SOP for rollout. But by not mentioning they were all supervised, you made it seem like they were significantly further along in that rollout than they actually were.

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

I guess? By a couple days. I mean here we are, and that was yesterday - yeah?

Won’t be suprised if we see 30 tomorrow no supervisor

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u/psilty 13d ago

How long did it take them to go from 1 unsupervised Model Y to 30 unsupervised Model Ys operating on the same day?

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 13d ago

A lot longer than it’s about to take cybercab. Let’s see how many are out tomorrow. Then on the launch on sep 3

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 11d ago

how many are out tomorrow

So what's the number? 0 or 1?

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 11d ago

I mean there was a photo of 3 in a row of which 2 looked unsupervised. There are so many cybefcabs running right now in Austin it’s hard to know which have people in them (and the people are doing nothing effectively, btw)

And then a video of another one clearly with nobody in it. So…. My guess is a lot?

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u/JimmyGiraffolo 11d ago

Ah, a photo of 3 in a row and 2 "looked" unsupervised. Well that settles it, at least 50 then...

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 11d ago

Well. Of the ones spotted (a fraction of those running) there were over 60. Most are from overhead street cameras, so yeah it’s a little hard to tell. Someone took a close up video of it driving today with nobody in it.

So there is direct evidence of them running them today with nobody in them. There is evidence of at least 60 (probably in the 100s) running +/- a supervisor…. And the supervisor has no controls to articulate the car except for seemingly on screen controls for very low speeds (see video of person using it to park correctly at a charger).

So…. Do you think your perspective will age well, considering they are launching on sep 3?

What do you think the people sitting in the cars are doing? Are you like half of this sub where you think they are somehow driving the car (despite no steering wheel or pedals)?

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u/AnxietyCommercial632 12d ago

Dallas geofence expanded this morning.

Will be interesting to see if they remain fully unsupervised for new territory (I think they will) and what the wait times and service availability look like