Tesla Says Cybercab Seats Are Built at Wheelchair Height

AUSTIN, Texas - Tesla’s Robotaxi account said Saturday night that a wheelchair user had ridden in Cybercab, and that the two-seater’s seats are built at standard wheelchair height to make getting in and out easier.

The official @robotaxi post was short and deliberate. “Wheelchair user rides in Cybercab,” it read. Then: “Cybercab seats are built at standard wheelchair height, making ingress & egress easy.” The account quote-posted a video from Anthony Sanchez (@Wheelchairpapii), who filmed himself using the gold two-seater as a paraplegic and rated the ride “10/10.”

That endorsement lands in the same week Tesla opened public Cybercab rides in Austin through the Robotaxi app. The company has already sold accessibility as a design brief - low step-in, room for assistive devices, braille on door controls, and earlier films that showed a wheelchair at the rear bumper. Saturday’s post turns the brief into a named rider on public streets, with Tesla’s own account amplifying the clip.

Sanchez’s video runs about a minute a half on a vertical phone frame. It is not a factory demo. It is a customer-style ride, the kind of evidence that travels faster than a spec sheet. Tesla did not add a new measurement table to the post. It used one line about seat height and let the footage do the rest.

The claim fits numbers Tesla published in its rider guide this week. Step-in height is listed at 16.5 inches, and the rear trunk is rated to hold a small folded wheelchair among other cargo. Seats at wheelchair height are meant to cut the transfer gap for riders who move from chair to cabin without a driver to assist. Cybercab has no steering wheel and no pedals. There is no attendant in the front row. The car has to be usable on its own terms.

Tesla has floated accessibility for months, including a National Federation of the Blind convention stop in Austin that highlighted Braille controls, space for service animals, and wheelchair-height seating. Saturday’s Robotaxi post is the first clear official reaction to a paraplegic rider’s public Cybercab video since general app access began here.

The desk is treating the seat-height line as Tesla’s latest official description of how Cybercab is meant to work for wheelchair users. Riders in Austin who can request the two-seater in the Robotaxi app now have both company language and a rider’s own camera as the record.