Tesla built a Starlink internet dish into its Cybercab robotaxi

Aug 11, 2026 11:32 PM - 1 hour ago 1

A female pinch a h2o vessel walks successful a crosswalk down a parked Tesla Cybercab.

Tesla has a agelong history of partnering pinch Musk's different companies. Tesla

Tesla is giving its Cybercab a small thief from different Elon Musk company.

On Monday, the EV shaper shared photos connected X of what it called the "First Cybercab pinch Starlink integration." The images show a square-like cutout successful the roofline, wherever the outer net instrumentality is built straight into the vehicle.

In a consequent X post, Musk said riders wrong the autonomous two-seat car tin "watch unrecorded sports successful 4k aliases movies aliases games aliases productivity."

The integration is different illustration of really Musk's companies are progressively intertwined. Tesla is utilizing SpaceX's AI personality, Grok, arsenic a sound adjunct successful its vehicles; SpaceX is buying hundreds of millions of dollars' worthy of Tesla Megapacks and cars; and the companies person collaborated connected a associated spot mill task called Terafab.

Those collaborations person inspired rumors of a potential mega-merger betwixt the 2 companies.

Monday's Cybercab station besides shows really Tesla plans to support its early fleet of driverless cars connected.

During the automaker's second-quarter net call, Musk said that Starlink would thief reside gaps successful cellular sum arsenic the institution expands its self-driving robotaxi service.

"We can't person robotaxis getting stuck successful these Bermuda Triangles of deficiency of cellular connectivity," Musk said. "Starlink, pinch its expertise to do connectivity anywhere, is really rather important, truthful we don't person robotaxis missing successful action."

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Ben Shimkus is simply a newsman for the Business News desk. He writes astir cars, transportation, retail, and jobs. Ben's reporting has appeared successful Rolling Stone, The Verge, Automotive News, USA Today, AutoBody News, LGBTQ Nation, TopSpeed, and Out Magazine. He's besides held unit penning positions astatine The U.S. Sun and the Daily Mail. He graduated from NYU pinch a Master's successful publicity successful 2024. Email Ben astatine [email protected] aliases connection him privately on Signal astatine bshimkus.41. 

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