Is this weirdly shaped, canary-yellow thing Tesla’s robotaxi?

A blurry photograph of a heavy camouflaged conveyance tooling astir connected the Warner Bros. movie workplace batch surfaced past night, spurring speculation that it’s the fabled Tesla robotaxi acceptable to beryllium revealed adjacent month.

With its canary yellowish wrap, and intelligibly manipulated shape, it’s hard to glean overmuch astir the robotaxi from conscionable this sighting. Everything astir this photograph should beryllium taken with a atom of salt, including the tires, boxy rear end, weird extortion bump (lidar?), and upsetting hood indentions. All is not what it seems.

According to Electrek, the photograph was archetypal posted to Reddit by u/boopitysmopp, who is said to beryllium a batch worker astatine Warner Bros. (The station has since been removed, and the reddit idiosyncratic has deleted their profile, truthful the employment assertion could not beryllium instantly verified.) In the photo, different Tesla conveyance tin beryllium seen pursuing on behind.

Last month, Bloomberg reported that Tesla was readying connected staging its robotaxi uncover astatine the 110-acre lot, which contains implicit 2 twelve dependable stages, including fake suburban towns.

The yellowish camouflage wrapper is surely a bully touch, particularly if Tesla is going to support utilizing the “cybercab” nomenclature that Elon Musk archetypal mentioned successful a caller net call. After all, thing says “taxicab” similar an obnoxious shadiness of yellow.

The wide size of the conveyance looks small, but perchance successful enactment with a Tesla Model 3. And the archetypal Reddit station noted that the backend had a full-width taillight that appeared to beryllium modeled connected the Cybertruck.

Other important questions, similar whether the conveyance volition person accepted controls similar a steering instrumentality and pedals, cannot instantly beryllium answered by this 1 photo. Hopefully immoderate much spy shots volition aboveground soon truthful we tin person a amended consciousness of what Musk and institution are planning.