Lives On Through Cybercab

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Back in March I said the whole Full Self-Driving saga was a post that writes itself. In May I said it deserved its own deep dive and that we'd get there eventually. Unlike the robotaxi. Overnight, Elon Musk handed me the hook. Sometime in the middle of the night going into Friday, Musk posted on X that Tesla will be winding down Cybertruck production at Giga Texas around the middle of next year "to make room for increased Cybercab production." The Cybertruck's lead engineer, Wes Morrill, replied with the line that's going to be on the headstone: "Cybertruck was an incredible technology development platform and lives on through Cybercab." Lives on through Cybercab. Hold onto that, because it's the whole post. The truck isn't being killed because it failed. The truck is being promoted. It ascends. It becomes the robotaxi. And the robotaxi runs on Full Self-Driving — the feature that has been one to two years away since roughly the…

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