“It’s going to be a glorious future,” Musk said, although it’s not one that applies to families or groups of three or more.

Musk claims that Tesla “expects” to launch completely unattended FSD on public roads in California and Texas next year. A recent analysis by an independent testing agency found that the current construction requires human intervention approximately once every 13 miles, often on roads that have been used before.

The Cybercab should appear “before 2027,” which Musk claims will be built in “very high volume.” Tesla watchers will no doubt remember similar claims about the Model Later, Musk treated the audience to a video of an articulated robotic arm with a vacuum attachment cleaning the two-seat interior of the Cybercab. Whether this will be sold as an aftermarket accessory to Cybercab owners, or whether they will have to hand clean their robotaxis between trips remains unclear at this time.

Musk also debuted another autonomous concept, the Robovan. It is a small bus without visible wheels, but with a brightly lit interior for up to twenty passengers. Musk said little about the Robovan and how it plays a role in Tesla’s future. In 2017, he revealed his distaste for public transport, saying “it’s annoying” and that other passengers could be serial killers.

After promising that “unsupervised FSD” would come to all five Tesla models — “this is not the time for nuance,” Musk told a fan — he showed off a driverless minivan and then a horde of humanoid robots, apparently using the same technology that Tesla says will be ready for unattended autonomous driving. These robots – “your own personal R2-D2,” he said – will apparently cost less than “$30,000” in the long run, Musk claimed, adding that this would be the largest product of all time, since all 8 billion people on the market the earth would want one, then two, he predicted.