New Cybercab Seats and ‘Very Cool Upgrades’ Coming Soon

The Cybercab is getting new seats. Eric Earley, Tesla’s chief engineer for the Cybercab, confirmed the change during his “Inside Cybercab” session at the X Takeover event at Giga Texas on Saturday, as reported by @teslawelt on X.

New seats aren’t the only change on the way, either. According to @nikkharris, Earley told the crowd that “some very cool upgrades are coming to the experience in Cybercab very soon.” He didn’t say what those upgrades are or when they’ll arrive.

How the Cybercab’s Seats Work Today

The Cybercab seats two, but its seats work more like a bench. Both seats slide forward and back together, and riders can only recline each seatback individually through the touchscreen. The cabin also offers enough legroom for passengers well over six feet tall.

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Accessibility was part of the design, too. Tesla matched the seat height to a standard wheelchair, making it easier for riders with limited mobility to slide in from the side.

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What the Upgrades Could Be

Tesla may already know what riders want. In early September, it started surveying Cybercab riders on new cabin features shortly after public rides launched, asking them to pick from options like heated seats, ventilated seats, fully reclining seats, a tray table, a wireless phone charger, and more storage, with room to write in their own ideas. The Cybercab currently skips heated and ventilated seats, preconditioning the cabin for riders before pickup instead. The redesigned seats could incorporate some of that feedback.

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What the other “very cool upgrades” Earley mentioned could be is anyone’s best guess at this point, but one of them could be the ability to bring up the external cameras on the central touchscreen. When a Cybercab rider recently asked for a way to pull up the rear and repeater cameras on demand, a Tesla software engineer replied on X, confirming that the feature is in the works.

Dallas Is Next

X Takeover attendees also said Earley described the current Austin fleet as only the beginning, with Tesla aiming to flood the city with Cybercabs and expand state by state, safety first. Tesla now has more than 300 Cybercabs in Austin, and the Cybercab panel at the event reiterated that Dallas is the next city to get Cybercab rides, something Tesla VP Ashok Elluswamy also said last week. Houston and Miami, both active Robotaxi markets, are also likely candidates.

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As Tesla builds and deploys more Cybercabs, future production units could arrive with the new seats, while software upgrades like on-demand camera views could reach the existing fleet through an update.