It’s surprising how many people are still in denial that Tesla launched a Robotaxi. In this Forbes article the author, an early Waymo employee, claims that the Cybercab — a car with no steering wheel — is actually not unsupervised. He argues that Cybercabs must be secretly remotely driven, because there’s no way the AI can do it. This is a laughable argument. First off, all autonomous vehicles can be tracked by the operator, and they can receive commands remotely. This does not mean they’re being driven over the internet, which would be unreliable and barely work at all. Just go try FSD (Supervised), which has no remote monitoring or assistance. Watch how it drives you around safely for thousands of miles and then tell me with a straight face that remote assistance is required. It’s also not true that remote help only happens at early stages. all operators including Waymo still do it, and in most cases are required to have the capability by law. To claim autonomous cars are secretly being driven over the internet is, at this point, tinfoil hat stuff. The AI is driving the car, not a human. Supervised means someone is in the car responsible for taking over if something goes wrong. Unsupervised means there is not someone in the car supervising. Cybercab without steering wheel is always unsupervised because there is no way to drive it manually.