Tesla said on Friday that select customers are now being invited to buy its driverless Cybercab for personal use, a move the company framed as a step toward delivering fully autonomous vehicles to individual owners. The two-seat vehicle, which has no steering wheel or pedals, was unveiled in October 2024. Tesla posted the offer on X with an image showing an estimated purchase price of $29,990 excluding taxes, an estimated December delivery date, a $299 monthly "autonomy subscription" and a $1,000 nonrefundable deposit.
Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a post on X that the offering would be available nationwide once Tesla receives regulatory approval. He argued the monthly fee was too high and said it should match the roughly $115 per month that Tesla charges for Full Self-Driving and connectivity on other models. Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering, Lars Moravy, had said last month that the company aims to start selling Cybercab robotaxis to the public by the end of this year. Tesla's head of artificial intelligence, Ashok Elluswamy, said in a separate X post that the Cybercab will operate unsupervised in all the same locations as the robotaxi service.S2
The sales push follows a gradual rollout of Tesla's "Robotaxi" service, which began with self-driving Model Y SUVs in Austin, Texas, last year. Tesla launched its unsupervised robotaxi service in Austin in June 2025, expanded it to Dallas and Houston in April 2026 and introduced it in Miami in July 2026, with service also reaching other cities in Texas, Florida and California. State laws, however, require many of the vehicles to have a human supervisor or driver ready to take control if necessary. By comparison, Waymo, the self-driving subsidiary of Alphabet, Google's parent company, offers its services in 11 U.S. cities.S1S2
The rollout comes under regulatory scrutiny. In September, U.S. auto safety regulators opened an inquiry into the Cybercab, questioning how Tesla concluded that a vehicle with no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors meets federal safety rules. Tesla has promoted the vehicle's safety and ease of use for disabled people, and said the Cybercab was "democratizing clean transportation for all." Whether the company receives the regulatory approval Musk described will determine when the offering can reach customers nationwide.S1S2
