Tesla extended Cybercab service hours in Austin from 10 PM to 11 PM, with Elon Musk noting that detecting small, hard-to-see obstacles like pets at night remains a key challenge for expanding late-night operations.
Electrek reports that Musk's acknowledgment of Tesla's camera-only system's limitations at night contradicts his years of dismissing lidar as a "fool's errand," while competitors like Waymo use multi-sensor systems to operate 24/7.
notateslaapp.com reports that Tesla added 111 Cybercabs to its Austin fleet, bringing the total registered vehicles to 169.
Electrek reports that Musk specifically cited difficulty detecting low-contrast objects like grey kittens on grey pavement at night as the technical limitation, and noted that lidar and radar solve this problem but Tesla has rejected these sensor types for years.
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