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Tech
Patent D1,151,323 S, granted on 6 October, protects the look of a two-door fastback body drawn by Franz von Holzhausen's team. The application went in on 9 October 2024, the eve of the We, Robot unveiling.
Riley Cho ·
Tech
A low-speed collision on South Broad Street popped the molded outer skin off a test Cybercab's driver door. Photos show the glass intact and the structure unbent, and with no driverless permit in Pennsylvania, a human was likely at the wheel.
Riley Cho ·
Tech
A rider's video from early Monday shows a driverless Cybercab meet a utility crew's cones, circle back twice and roll on once a worker cleared the lane. The detour pushed the arrival estimate back about seven minutes.
Sam Ellison ·
Tech
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 ·
Tech
Tipster TeslaZoa flagged a Cybercab wet-weather camera-cleaning trick: at stoplights, when airflow over the coupe is low, the car appears to blow air across the B-pillar camera lens to clear rain and water droplets.
Sam Ellison ·
Tech
Tesla's Robotaxi account posts a short film naming the coupe's front light bar the Megalamp, the color cue riders match in the app at the curb.
Sam Ellison, Senior correspondent ·
The desk
Austin, Giga Texas, and the Robotaxi map. Short notes when something actually moves.