Tesla may advertise its impending Cybercab robotaxi fleet as a self-driving service, but new job listings indicate human workers may still be required to remotely drive the cars. As spotted on Wednesday by Gizmodo,

Elon Musk has a vision dominated by autonomous vehicles, and Tesla’s ambitious plans for a robotaxi service by 2026 underscore that vision.

As Tesla gears up to launch a robotaxi service in the coming years, the automaker looks like it's building out a teleoperations team. According to a recent job listing, Tesla is hiring a software engineer to help develop a teleoperations system that will allow human operators to remotely access and control the company’s upcoming robotaxis and humanoid robots.

Tesla has confirmed through a new job listing that it plans to establish a ‘teleoperation’ team to remote control

A recently spotted Tesla job listing advertises a role to build out a remote teleoperations team for the firm’s upcoming robotaxi fleet. “Tesla AI’s Teleoperation team is charged with providing remote access to our robotaxis and humanoid robots,

Tesla has never offered end-of-term lease buyouts, having said it would keep the cars and use them as robotaxis. Now it's going back on that.