Why a two-seater robotaxi makes more sense than you think

07 March 2026, USA, San Jose: A trial car of the Tesla robotaxi Cybercab is connected the road. The vehicles volition not person a steering instrumentality oregon pedals erstwhile they are launched connected the market. Tesla brag Elon Musk sees autonomous driving arsenic the aboriginal of the electrical car manufacturer. Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa (Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture confederation via Getty Images)

When Tesla revealed the Cybercab successful 2024, galore radical were baffled by the automaker's determination to marque it a two-seater. I had akin thoughts erstwhile I archetypal saw it astatine the LA Auto Show aboriginal that year: What benignant of taxi has lone 2 seats? Once you get supra a tuktuk, that's an asinine thought nary 1 volition ever want.

For 18 months, that seems to person been the prevailing attitude. On Reddit and different societal media platforms, users person weighed successful connected the utility, oregon deficiency thereof, of a two-seat robotaxi. "You could strap a fewer radical to the extortion for a peculiar discount," quipped 1 commenter. Nevertheless, the archetypal Tesla Cybercab was enactment into produ …

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