Tesla said today it will sell Cybercab to consumers by the end of this year, raising questions of what end users would do with a vehicle with no steering wheel and no self-driving software.

During Tesla’s Q3 conference call today, a question was asked about when Tesla will deliver unsupervised FSD to customer cars.

That question was answered slightly differently than usual. Instead of the standard “end of next year” that we’ve heard every year for a decade, Tesla changed the answer to: “middle of next year.” In order words, Q2 2027.

So, alright, that’s when Tesla says its cars will be able to drive themselves with nobody paying any attention. Great. It would be quite a big step from their current level 2 system to a level 4 or 5 system, which are the only categories that could be deemed as “unsupervised” as level 3 still includes a driver in the driver’s seat who needs to be ready to take control at any time.

But then, in the same question, Tesla made another prediction. VP of Engineering Lars Moravy said that Cybercab will be in customer hands by the end of this year – which means within the next two months. Here’s the answer:

In short we’re trying to get Cybercabs to customers by the end of this year in 2026, obviously we’re producing a lot in Texas but all of those are going to our own internal Robotaxi fleet, and as Tesla grows we’ll mainly deliver fully designed autonomous vehicles to our customers and Cybercab will be the first.

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