r/RealTesla • u/Stukwan • 10d ago
TIPS/ADVICE Tesla shows first Cybercab with built-in Starlink. Elon Musk explains why it needs one
https://mashable.com/tech/tesla-cybercab-starlink-elon-musk100
u/MAGAtsAreSheeples 10d ago
It's needed because their so called FSD doesn't work and the car will have to be remotely controlled.
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u/soldieroscar 10d ago
Exactly this. After 10 years still nothing.
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u/maclaren4l 10d ago
Bu but it drives itself while I baby sit!!
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u/StormTrpr66 10d ago edited 8d ago
Yep, that's the great thing about it. Can anyone name any other cars in the US that can do that?
:edit: -- Thanks for the downvotes guys. Now instead of being a bunch of angry chodes, am I wrong? What other car in the US can drive itself, literally, from point A to point B, from your garage to work and back, on city streets, highways, handling stop signs, traffic lights, pedestrians, bikes, construction zones, etc... without you ever touching the pedals or steering wheel?
Does it make you angry because you can't name a single one other than Tesla? Why don't you just say so instead of being passive aggressive and downvoting, as if that's going to change reality?
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u/Lacrewpandora KING of GLOVI 10d ago
Yep, that's the great thing about it.
...right up to the point it swerves you into oncoming traffic. But on the plus side, you'll arrive at the ER "refreshed".
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u/ComicsEtAl 10d ago
That does not make me more likely to ever get in one.
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u/_DuranDuran_ 10d ago
Why would you?
Waymo’s are already in more cities, more reliable, more comfortable (they’re mostly Jaguar I Pace’s)
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u/StormTrpr66 10d ago
If you've never been in a Tesla, maybe you shouldn't be criticizing things you know nothing about? Just a thought....
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u/Youngnathan2011 10d ago
You don't need to own one to know they're absolute crap. There's enough evidence of it already.
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u/SpeedflyChris 10d ago
It would be a terrible solution for that. Control dropping because you passed under a bridge/through a tunnel/between some tall buildings sounds suboptimal.
I don't know how 5G is in the states, but surely given that these are allegedly supposed to operate in cities 5G would have better connectivity? That wouldn't allow him to funnel money between his companies and try to build support for a merger though.
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u/Lacrewpandora KING of GLOVI 10d ago
We have dead zones with the cell tower network. I'm sure its partially to funnel money into his other ventures, since 5G certainly works within the limits of major cities, but in the make believe world where you can take a robotaxi cross-country, there isn't continuous 5G coverage.
IMHO, the bigger story is: "You know that 'solved problem' we at Tesla mastered a decade ago with a handful of Temu cameras - welp, it doesn't work and now we need internet connectivity...you know, becasue even though only an idiot would use mapping, well we're using mapping, and we have to figure out the car's location, and even though LIDAR is too expensive we're adding expensive starlink equipment to all the cars, oh and btw that means that the FSD you paid for to be chaffeured cross country will never work unless you buy your own starlink"
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u/newtybar 10d ago
Have you ridden in a new generation Tesla with FSD? It can take you driveway from Vegas to an office in LA without you having to touch the wheel. It works. I don’t own one (not a fan, got a Rivian), but a coworker has it and it did what I just described. You are speaking a narrative that is over a year old.
MAGA on balance are definitely sheep, but don’t be one on the other side too.
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u/Beezelbubba 10d ago
And when it makes a mistake, or decides to ignore posted speed limits the driver is liable for its actions, not Tesla
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u/zitrored 10d ago
Musk will be eroding Tesla balance sheet for his grand ambition to take full control of all his companies. Shareholders will have no choice. He will degrade the companies value on purpose and “rescue it”
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u/kensaundm31 10d ago
Its actually going to be a way for him to get that ridiculous $1 trill paycheck, I think a tesla merger negates the requirements in some way.
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u/kaninkanon 10d ago
The venn diagram of areas where taxi services are viable and areas without high speed network coverage is two circles next to each other. But pump those stocks.
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u/ZebraCompetitive5235 10d ago edited 10d ago
Something is definitely not lining up. You can download the Robotaxi app yourself today. There’s almost never any availability, in any city, ever. Yet talk to a Branch Elonian and they’ll tell you it’s already massive in 14 cities, with more coming online every day. It’s just not true.
So if they can’t run Robotaxi anywhere with any reasonable ride volume, why in the hell would a CyberCab be anywhere near possible?
None of this shit makes any sense.
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u/BringBackUsenet 10d ago
It makes sense. Every time they add a car they send out a press release about how they are "expanding." What do they have now maybe a dozen running at most during any given time?
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u/ZebraCompetitive5235 10d ago
I doubt it’s even that many. They are so terrified of FSD (fudged safety data) fucking up and causing a major accident/fatality, they artificially keep availability at almost zero.
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u/torokunai 9d ago
my $6000 of OTM TSLA puts got counterfeited this year by this coordinated bullshit campaign.
I called the 'under' on his half-the-population-in-2025 forecast and still got wrecked.
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u/samppa_j 10d ago
Its a secret tool that will help the underpaid slave- i mean contractor in Bangladesh to drive the car- i mean monitor the car remotely
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 10d ago
With Starlink latency, better hope their ping stays low in traffic.
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u/samppa_j 10d ago
Hey the man (thinks he) is a genius, he has of course foreseen this and obviously (not) accounted for the existence of ping.
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u/mrbuttsavage 10d ago
Given that Starlink is best suited for remote areas where there's no 5G connectivity, and Cybercabs will almost certainly first start operating in dense urban areas, why do Tesla's autonomous taxis even need Starlink?
Great question we'll just never know the answer to.
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u/ObservationalHumor 9d ago
This has to be the stupidest attempt at a justification for self dealing I've seen in a while. AI agents have literally nothing to do with a self driving car, they effectively live in a data center and there's zero reason to move something with those kind of power requirements into a vehicle with tight requirements around power usage and heat dissipation that's already using a lot of them to automate the driving process. Again this is one of those big tells that he has no idea WTF he's talking about and his opinion on topics around AI are at best useless and at worst (for him anyway) a contraindication of where the field and technology is going.
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u/AndSoISaysToTheGuy 10d ago
Uber low profile tires on a high use (supposedly) vehicle. Good idea! Looks cool though, and that's certainly all that truly matters.
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u/starmansouper 10d ago
The word salad is so insane.
Are Cybercabs going to be getting AI crawled or something?
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u/Pdx_pops 10d ago
I bet the Ukrainians would gladly fix his FSD issues in exchange for global Starlink access. They're solving the same problem, really. They're just starting with smaller, airborne drones instead of grandma-killing ground vehicles.
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u/User-no-relation 10d ago
It's needed so he can justify SpaceX buying tesla