Tesla tests a model 3 with mysterious cameras, potentially referring to the imminent release of the Cybercab and Robotaxi platform in the United States.
After Tesla unveiled the Cybercab in Los Angeles in early October, the company suggested that it would be on the way to launching driver-free rides in the United States in the near future.
Now Tesla goes to a driverless carpooling service in Austin, Texas, among some other potential locations, but he still works towards a platform sufficiently robust to manage it.
Although the complete autonomous suite of the company is one of the most advanced on the market, Tesla always works to accomplish what he feels as a mode of transport that is safer than a human driver. The deployments of Robotaxi and Cybercab will probably succeed, but there is still work to do in advance.
Now Tesla tests a model 3 in the United States which has been spotted in several different places in the northeast part of the country, because the cameras are visible on this vehicle in places that are not necessarily typical of what it currently offers:
🚨 A user on R / Teslamotors has spotted this model 3 with interesting and never seen camera locations.
Cybercab possible or new generation tests? pic.twitter.com/j6w6ckcil9
– Teslarati (@teslarati) March 31, 2025
Another is seen here:
@teslascope Tesla spotted Cybercab data collection with a front bumper cam in Boston, Ma. (The potentially different front cameras too.) Tesla currently includes the video camera video in training data? Will this be required for non-sub-supervised? pic.twitter.com/5rhpop2tbe
– Dylan (@ dylan02939106) March 31, 2025
Interestingly, we saw similar cameras locations on cybercab during the event in October. Tesla did not test the cybercab, but rather implemented these cameras on a comparable position on its other vehicles.
These are the cameras that we spotted on the cybercab during the event in October:
In the past, Tesla has used a variety of strategies to measure autonomous precision, including the Lidar, which was seen on certain test mules that we have identified in public.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that society did not need Lidar to test the mules for the truth on the ground, but we find them from time to time on public roads.
It is an appropriate way just to cross ts and dot is:
Tesla Model X Testing Mule Spotted With Lidar Rig before the Robotaxi event
The company is still moving towards this initial deployment of driverless driver in Austin in June, and some managers of the company said that the cybercab will be the vehicle it uses for these initial walks.
