Tesla's cyber cab has finally arrived.

Sort of, maybe.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. The last week has been a big one for companies.

The last week has been a big one for companies owned by Elon Musk. On Sunday,

SpaceX made history by successfully launching its powerful Starship rocket

and then landing the super heavy booster back on the launch pad.

And last Thursday, after years of hype, Tesla finally debuted its Robotaxi, more in Tesla speak, Cyber Cab.

Musk has been making and breaking promises about Tesla's autonomous vehicle for years. So did the debut of the cyber cab finally deliver?

Andrew Hawkins is the transportation editor for The Verge and he's been following the story.

It was a small sedan.

It looked sort of like a truncated model three.

Just enough room for two passengers inside.

The doors were what's called butterfly wing doors. They kind of opened like a

Lamborghini's doors would open up and away from the vehicle and had no steering wheel, no pedals, no gear shift, none of the traditional

controls that we would normally associate with a car.

And that's because it's designed to be a fully autonomous, what we call purpose-built driverless vehicle.

So as you noted in your piece, this debut has been promised for quite some time.

Can you kind of talk us through the timeline of this product,

you know, from when it was first teased to now?

Yeah, so I've been covering Tesla for a very long time and almost as long as I've been covering it and certainly about as long as he's been the CEO of the company, he's been promising some aspect of self-driving technology capabilities.

In 2016, he said that self-driving Tesla vehicles were just

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