Tesla Says Cybercab Employee Rides Are Starting Soon at Giga Texas

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla has taken its first public step toward putting passengers inside the Cybercab, announcing that "Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas" are starting soon and sharing video of the steering-wheel-less robotaxi driving itself across the factory campus.

The announcement, posted across Tesla's official accounts and viewed millions of times, showed a gold Cybercab with its butterfly doors raised, no steering wheel and no pedals, autonomously moving through the Gigafactory Texas grounds. The company's Robotaxi account captioned an accompanying clip "Cool news from Giga Texas," while the main Tesla account confirmed employee rides would begin at the site soon.

A First Milestone for the Purpose-Built Robotaxi

The Cybercab is Tesla's first vehicle designed from the ground up to be fully driverless, with no manual controls of any kind. That makes any step toward carrying real passengers a notable moment for the program. Starting with employees on the sprawling Giga Texas campus gives Tesla a controlled environment to validate the vehicle before broader public deployment.

Tesla's robotaxi engineering lead offered an early endorsement, saying he had taken "50 rides in over the last few days and I still never wanted to get out of it at the end of the ride." The rollout builds on hardware work already detailed by the company, including the dual GPS system Tesla tucked into the Cybercab for pinpoint navigation, which is designed to keep the driverless car precisely located without human intervention.

Built to Scale at Giga Texas

Tesla has already stacked well over 100 finished Cybercabs in the Giga Texas outbound lot, the product of an "unboxed" assembly process the company says makes it the most efficient EV it has ever built. Employee rides give Tesla a way to put those vehicles to work immediately while it continues refining the software stack that will eventually let them operate on public streets.

The move fits into Tesla's rapidly widening autonomy footprint. The company's supervised robotaxi network, which recently reached fully driverless operation across multiple markets, has been the proving ground for the technology that the Cybercab is designed to inherit and scale.

What Comes Next

Tesla did not detail the exact route, fleet size, or scope of the employee rides, leaving room for the program to grow from campus shuttling into something closer to a real service. Many enthusiasts believe the announcement is the reveal executives had teased for earlier in the month, now arriving with live footage rather than promises. The details were reported by Electrek, which noted the rides mark Tesla's first stated step toward seating people in the vehicle.

The near-term prize remains folding the Cybercab into Tesla's paying robotaxi fleet, and employee rides are the logical first rung on that ladder. With production humming and finished vehicles waiting, Tesla now has both the cars and, increasingly, the confidence to start letting people climb in.