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Forbes Daily Briefing

Elon Musk Can’t Legally Sell The Tesla Cybercab As Promised

Forbes Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The billionaire CEO claims the new steering wheel-less, pedal-less Cybercab goes into production in April. But Tesla doesn’t have a regulatory exemption needed to sell it — it hasn't even applied for it.

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0:00.0

Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Friday, November 21st.

0:05.6

Today on Forbes, Elon Musk can't legally sell the Tesla cybercab as promised.

0:13.1

Minutes after winning Tesla shareholder approval for his unprecedented $1 trillion pay package

0:19.4

at its annual meeting, a beaming Elon Musk took to the stage

0:23.6

at the Austin plant to cheers from investor fans and board members to lay out his plans for the next

0:29.3

couple of years. Chief among them, Cybercab, his vision for a dedicated, fully driverless, electric

0:36.4

taxi, and Tesla's play for autonomous

0:38.9

global transportation dominance. Unlike its top-selling Model Y crossover, Model 3 sedan, or even

0:46.3

the cyber truck, which has fallen far short of the billionaire CEO's lofty volume goals,

0:51.6

cybercab is to be sold exclusively as a self-driving vehicle, without standard

0:56.2

controls, according to Musk.

0:58.8

It's to be priced below $30,000, making it the company's most affordable model.

1:04.2

And according to Musk, it's headed to market soon.

1:07.4

He said, quote, we've got the first car that is specifically built for unsupervised full self-driving

1:13.1

to be a robo-taxie.

1:14.9

It's called a cybercab.

1:16.7

It doesn't even have pedals or a steering wheel.

1:18.9

There are no side view mirrors.

1:20.7

And that production is happening right here in this factory.

1:23.6

We'll be starting production in April next year.

1:27.1

Whether Tesla is ready to sell a vehicle that's truly capable of safely driving itself is debatable.

1:33.4

In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently conducting an extensive probe of Tesla's so-called full self-driving system, owing to numerous accident reports.

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