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Rain or Shine: Cybercab's Cameras Keep Working Wet

Cybercab's wet-weather kit pairs a heated front camera that evaporates water between wipes, B-pillar blowers that clear the side cameras, and dialed windshield-wiper timing. Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy put it simply: the weather does not bother the cabs.

Sam Ellison, Live desk

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Rain or Shine: Cybercab's Cameras Keep Working Wet
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AUSTIN - Cybercab is built to keep seeing when the rain arrives. Tipster RobotaxiRadar summarized three product choices that keep the coupe's cameras honest in wet weather. The front camera heats so leftover water on the windshield evaporates between wipes. Blowers at the B-pillar clear water from the side cameras. Windshield-wiper timing is dialed for the same job. Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy, quoted alongside the tip, wrote that the weather does not bother the cabs. Video shared with the tip shows a Cybercab moving through heavy Austin rain while downtown streets sit wet and gray.

tip video thumb via @JoshWest247 / @RobotaxiRadar rain design post
tip video thumb via @JoshWest247 / @RobotaxiRadar rain design post

Read the kit as one system. A heated front camera attacks water that sits on the glass between wiper strokes. Side cameras get active air instead of waiting for highway airflow. Wiper timing fills the gaps. Together those choices keep the vision stack usable when Austin storms cut visibility. The tip presents the trio as deliberate Cybercab design, not a one-off stoplight quirk.

desk archive via Gail mountain Cybercab package
desk archive via Gail mountain Cybercab package

Keep the boundaries honest. Friday's Tech filing covered a single field observation: a B-pillar air-blow at low-airflow stoplights. Sunday's piece is the fuller product-design ledger. Heating at the front camera, blowers on the side cameras, and wiper timing sit together as the rain kit. It is not a fleet-count story, not a Megalamp story, and not a claim that every camera on every coupe has a published patent number. It is the wet-weather design the tip put on the wire.

Pocket the line: heat between wipes, B-pillar blowers, dialed wiper timing. That is Sunday's Tech fact. Distinct from Friday's single air-blow observation. Austin remains the only paid Cybercab hail market.

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