Anyone who attended the Wivatech Tech Fair in Paris, France, on Thursday found a glimpse of Tesla’s multi-hipped cybercab, a two-seater robotaxi, which would not include steering wheels or paddles. It is not clear whether cybercabs would ever be hitting the streets, as Elon Musk’s company is still working to develop them, but the Trump regime on Friday announced that it wants to make the approval process very easy, as no vehicle has a steering wheel, which needs to be a special discount that may be in years.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a letter on Friday, stating that it is going to “give priority” and “innovation” by streamlining approval for exemption for basic safety standards for automated driving systems.
“To facilitate the convenience of reaching its full potential to change the roadway security to the automatic driving system (ADS) technology, NHTSA is streamlining its exemption process for commercial deployment of vehicles and adopting a dynamic and flexible approach to evaluate these discounts,” ” Reads the letter,
“These improvements will allow NHTSA to process ads and other discounts more quickly, while NHTSA allows safety to prioritize safety through an analog and progressive operating oversite approach,” the letter continued.
Federal safety standards require that driving vehicles on American roads have the basic things that you will expect, because if something goes wrong, humans need to be able to control the vehicle. But NHTSA’s new letters say that approval for such vehicles can result in “long processing time”, and the agency “wants to ensure that exemption remains effective tools to nourish security technologies.”
Cybercab is not present yet, although Musk promised during the big announcement program in October 2024 that they would be available 2-3 yearsMusk is planning to introduce a different type of robotaxi service in Austin this month, although the last date is still uncertain. According to Musk, there were rumors that it would happen on Thursday, but it did not happen, and it seems that it would happen later this month.
“Temporarily, 22 June. We are getting super pranoids about security, so the date may be shifted,” Musk tweeted 10 June“The first Tesla that drives itself from the end of the line of line for a customer home, is June 28.”
Unlike Cybercab, musk’s new robotaxi service in Austin uses Tesla model Y vehicles only regularly that anyone can buy. It is still not clear how much remote control will be used by operators at some distance. If history is a guide, it can be very visionary, such as Musk has used in its public demonstrations Her optimus robot,
As Bloomberg Notes, Musk contributed to more than $ 250 million to help Trump to be elected, and to streamline regulatory approval for their companies was considered a top priority. But he needs to make the first product. Many articles have claimed that cybercab production will begin at the end of 2026, but Musk has a long history of the missing deadline, if not completely failed to distribute products.
If billionaire Oligarch is able to produce cybercabs anytime, the regulator approval will probably be very easy, very easy, provided that the musk lives in a good grace of Trump. Tesla’s CEO essentially accused Trump of having a pedophile recently. But what is a little paid allegation among friends?
