Elon Musk's vision for the future of Tesla has finally rolled off the assembly line. Last month, a Tesla factory in Texas built the first Cybercab, a driverless electric car with neither a steering wheel nor pedals. With typical bombast, Musk has promised that the Cybercab will cost less than $30,000 by next year, and said that it could perhaps even pay for itself: Owners will conceivably be able to nap at home while the car is out hailing riders and earning them money. The Cybercab is among the splashiest parts of Tesla's pivot away from its core business of selling cars (or at least those driven by humans). Musk is dead set on turning Tesla into a company that makes robots and robotaxis. Earlier this year, he killed the Model S'the vehicle that initially made Tesla into an electric-car giant'freeing up factory space to manufacture Optimus, a humanoid robot he says has the potential to be the 'biggest product of all time.' The world's richest man has a lot riding on the success of...
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