A car with no steering wheel and no pedals is, in plain terms, a vehicle designed to operate with no human controls at all. Tesla is signaling exactly that ahead of a long-awaited update on the Cybercab, a vehicle the company first unveiled almost two years ago. Fans have been waiting since that original reveal for any meaningful development.
The tease itself is brief. The phrase "No steering wheel, no pedals" is directed at an audience that has had little to go on since the Cybercab's first appearance. What form the upcoming update will take, Tesla has not said.
The two-year span between the Cybercab's debut and this new signal reflects the weight of what Tesla is attempting. A vehicle with no driver controls is a different kind of product from a conventional car. The company positioned the Cybercab in that category from the start, and this tease suggests that positioning has not changed. What the update contains, and when it arrives, remains unspecified.