Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year
THE SO WHAT
Selling a gold, fully autonomous two-seater with no steering wheel while regulators are still probing safety is Tesla forcing the policy and liability question into the market, not the lab. If you operate in mobility or fleet, assume customer expectations around human controls and supervision are about to get stress-tested in public, fast.
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