Tesla Cybercab Cabin Screen Shows Virtual Joystick for Manual Driving

A Tesla Cybercab cabin display briefly switched into a configuration with a virtual joystick for manual driving during a ride on September 7, 2026, rider and entrepreneur Matthew Skrzypczak said, posting cabin video that shows the unusual on-screen layout before he tried moving the vehicle himself.

“Weird #cybercab situation! When I got in the vehicle, the display was in a different configuration with a virtual joystick for manual driving,” Skrzypczak wrote. “I have a feeling I wasn’t supposed to see this… but I try to manually drive the vehicle anyway!” The clip, shared under his MatthewSkrzypc1 account, captures the joystick-style control surface on the passenger screen rather than the usual robotaxi ride UI.

In a follow-up minutes later, Skrzypczak said the two fender cameras were still showing a Supercharger, which made him think the Cybercab had last been driven by a Tesla employee at a Supercharger stop. “So this was likely last used at a supercharger, which is the only time that I think we’ve ever noticed it being used by a Tesla employee in the CyberCab,” he added. That detail frames the joystick screen less as a rider feature and more as a leftover employee-control mode that had not been cleared before his pickup.

Tesla has not posted an official note on the screen mode, so the clips stand as a rider tip rather than a product announcement. Cybercab rides in Austin have been expanding public access while Tesla’s Robotaxi account highlights cabin features such as talking to Grok for climate and destination changes and wheelchair-height seats, which makes an unexpected manual-drive layout stand out against the unsupervised ride stack owners never see on their cars.

Whether the joystick mode is a Supercharger ferry or service control, a debug screen, or a residual UI path, Skrzypczak’s video is the clearest public look yet at a Cybercab display that assumes a human can take the wheel. That sits beside other September Cybercab notes on the site, including the four-city Japan Tour starting September 11, as Tesla keeps showing the vehicle in more public settings while riders keep documenting cabin details Tesla has not spelled out in a release.