Cybercab’s Tiny Camera Upgrade Could Be a Huge Robotaxi Breakthrough

Tesla has been spotted testing a Cybercab engineering vehicle with a new side-repeater camera housing that includes a built-in washer system. The addition helps keep camera lenses clear in rain, snow, mud, dust, and road spray—critical for a vision-only, fully driverless vehicle that has no human to clean them.

Reliable camera visibility is essential for safe autonomous driving, making this small hardware upgrade a key step toward dependable 24/7 robotaxi operation.

Windshield washers? Old news. Now even the cameras are getting their own car wash!