Will we have student drivers testing in 5 years? Yeah, most likely. Even with the scale of robotaxis, AI, humanoids, and self-driving vehicles, I still think there will be a lot of manually driven cars. Will babies born this year in 2026 need to learn to drive in 2041? I highly doubt it. There will still be manually driven cars, but also millions of robotaxis and millions of humanoids. For some people it won't make sense to own a car, especially one that doesn’t drive itself. Personal autonomy will be very abundant, and by then the script will have flipped from “I don’t trust self-driving cars” to “I only trust self-driving cars.” Our world is going to change so much in the next 5 years but change exponentially in the next 15.

The ability to make a colored light bar will definitely be useful for robotaxi, to help let people know which Cybercab is the right one to get in. They could flash a certain color or make a certain pattern! I know other AV like Waymo and Zoox do this in their own way too.

There has been some controversy about Tesla limiting their chargers on the website to Tesla owners only. I don’t see an issue with this. They’re likely doing this because supply is in high demand and they want to prioritize their customers first, which they should. It’s hilarious to see people have a problem with this, as if every other company doesn’t prioritize themselves the same way. Imagine a brand-new owner being told by Tesla, “Sorry, we’re sold out of the Wall chargers because we gave those to other EV owners.” That makes no sense. If you want a Tesla charger, buy a Tesla. If not, go to Lowe’s or Best Buy and get one there.