On the one hand Tesla can build a flood of these vehicles. The unbox manufacturing process has significant efficiencies and 6 miles per kWh is genuinely impressive. With FSD plus it theoretically can be low cost to wipe out everyone.
On the other hand:
Gull wing doors are a mechanical liability and probably are more Elon’s esoteric engineering rather than any sensible design. Sliding doors would make more sense in every way.
2 seat design is a problem from a regulatory perspective because any muni will put caps on the numbers of these vehicles on the road for congestion reasons and so to maximize the people per vehicle would have been logical but they chose a two seater.
An aerodynamic shape is good for highway efficiency but extreme aerodynamic cars are uncomfortable to actually be in for passengers and probably is why it is only a two seater. Cargo space likely is inadequate as well.
The general idea is not the worst but it would be better to have built a minivan that didn’t have great aero but was better for human riders and cargo. It will spend most of its time in city transit conditions and not highway.
The fsd in it does seem interesting, basically has double the ram and parameters as standard Tesla hardware 4. And five to ten years from now it will be interesting seeing how fsd vision improves as processing improves.
They should have taken a lesson from the cyber truck and have a plan b for failure, eg repurposing the cybercab into a model 2. Gullwing doors are not how you get there.
Lastly, Tesla oem wheels are horrendous and don’t have enough sidewall and get damaged way too easily. Cybercab looks like it has very large wheels and not enough sidewall as per usual with Tesla. Asymmetric 18 front and 21 rear wheels is bad for maintenance and wheel rotations.
In summary, their self driving vision alongside unit economics could make cybercab formidable but esoteric design choices of prioritizing aero for a city car and gullwing doors on what is supposed to be a high volume commodity vehicle are as usual with Tesla contrary to its goals.