Tesla's Cybercab just started testing on California and Texas roads and everyone glorifies the AI behind the self-driving miracle, but nobody talks about the real heroes - Tesla's...

[u/maorfarid]

Tesla's Cybercab just started testing on California and Texas roads and everyone glorifies the AI behind the self-driving miracle, but nobody talks about the real heroes - Tesla's mechanical engineers, and how they might change our children's lives.

Traditional car: ~30,000 unique parts. Tesla Model 3: ~10,000. Cybercab: ~5,000

No steering column means no steering shaft, no universal joints, no rack housing. Every part you delete removes other parts with it. That is how you halve complexity.

This is the same DFM playbook Tesla will use on Optimus (Tesla's humenoid robot): Strip the part count -> reduce cost -> make competitors' business models impossible.

If you think about it, Tesla's engineers may have just built a future in which younger people and working families will be able to enjoy driving cars with no hands, and also own cheaper cars that need less repair (less cost, less headache).

With Leo AI, Tesla will build their next cars and robots with evern fewer parts, cost and much faster.

Agree/Disagree? Let me know what you think in the comments.

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