Policy · Safety
First responders are training for a car they cannot steer
How do you move a wrecked robotaxi when there is no column, no key, and two passengers who were watching a screen?
Every new Tesla body style comes with a first-responder guide: where to cut, where the battery lives, how to shut it down. The Cybercab adds a chapter nobody wrote for a Model Y. There is no steering wheel to grab. There is no driver to yell at. If the car is stuck in an intersection, the people inside are passengers who may not know how to put it in park.
Tesla has been running responder training alongside the test loops. Fire crews want to know how the butterfly doors behave in a rollover. Police want to know who is the operator of record. Tow companies want to know what happens if you pull a gold coupe by the wrong structural member.
These are not think-piece hypotheticals. They are the cost of putting a purpose-built autonomous vehicle on public pavement. Sept. 3 guests will see a door that opens like a show car. The people Tesla is training this month will see the same door after a crash.
