A Tesla Cybercab in Austin failed to leave a hotel parking lot and ended by telling its passenger he had arrived where he started.
Futurism reports a computer engineer booked the wheel-free robotaxi; construction blocked one exit lane and the vehicle, he said, could not use the open lane. It “drove back and forth four times” then stopped and declared arrival. Coverage places the mishap amid Tesla’s early Cybercab rollout and wider rider complaints about awkward pickups/drop-offs, plus separate reporting that NHTSA opened audit AQ26002 into Cybercab self-certification. Treat the episode as a construction-layout fail, not a crash.