Musk says Cybercab riders will be able to plug in a PlayStation or Xbox

Elon Musk has added a new detail to Tesla’s robotaxi rollout, telling followers on X that riders in the company’s Cybercab will be able to plug in their own PlayStation or Xbox console during a trip. He posted the line on the morning of September 5, replying to a Tesla post that had gone up the day before to promote the car’s onboard entertainment setup, and the timing puts it just two days after Cybercab’s first paid public rides started in Austin.

The post that drew Musk’s reply came from Tesla’s own account, and it framed the Cybercab less as a way to get somewhere and more as a place to spend time. The company said the car offers theater, music and gaming apps on a 22-inch touchscreen, and it described the ride as a space to be productive or unwind rather than just a trip from one point to another. Tesla added that the car will soon carry “V5 Starlink hardware,” which it said would give riders complete connectivity even in spots where cell service runs weak or gets overloaded.

Musk’s line about plugging in a PlayStation or Xbox has not been explained further by Tesla, and no date or engineering detail has come out yet on how a physical console would connect to the Cybercab’s cabin electronics. Still, it tracks with a pattern that goes back several years. Tesla built game-streaming support into the Model S and Model X using onboard AMD RDNA 2 graphics chips, and the company once marketed that setup as running at “PlayStation 5-level” performance, backing it with Steam integration that let owners play titles using a wireless controller, a mouse or a keyboard.

It is not yet known if that same streaming approach carries over to Cybercab, or if riders will get an actual port for a console. The car has no steering wheel and no pedals, so its whole cabin is built around the passenger rather than split between driver and rider, and that layout could turn out to fit console-style entertainment more naturally than earlier Tesla models built with a driver up front in mind.

The console comment landed in the middle of a packed week for the Cybercab program. Public rides began in limited parts of Austin on September 3 and 4, booked through Tesla’s existing Robotaxi app, and the launch marked the first time the automaker has put a car with no manual controls into paid public service.