TL;DR
A car built with no steering wheel and no pedals is reportedly learning its way around the Motor City. About two dozen of Tesla's Cybercabs, the two-seat robotaxi it has been running only in Austin, have been spotted testing on Metro Detroit highways and streets, working out of a Tesla repair shop in Southfield, according to a Detroit News sightings report relayed by EVXL. That account is a secondary report, and Tesla has not officially said it is testing there. For now the test cars carry temporary steering wheels and human drivers. If the car that was designed to need no driver can handle Michigan roads, a ride with nobody up front stops being a Sun Belt novelty and starts looking like something a lot more of the country could hail. To see our odds on when Cybercabs carry the public in Detroit, and the timeline of breakthroughs that leads there, subscribe.
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