Hamilton Cybercabs

Founder & CEO · Dan Sheppard, P.Eng. · serial entrepreneur · small-business family roots · Hamilton Cybercab depot and fleet concept for the Golden Horseshoe

[Hamilton Cybercabs @HamCyberCabs]

We believe Cybercab deployment will ultimately save lives, improve people’s quality of life, and give people hours back in their day.

Hamilton Cybercabs is a locally operated robotaxi concept for Greater Hamilton & the Golden Horseshoe — founded by a serial entrepreneur and P.Eng. raised in a small-business family.

Vehicle supply and commercial ops remain contingent on Tesla and regulation.
Site (illustrative terms, not an offer): https://t.co/QZNxYFqqe8

Steel city. Operator-led. Presence first.

[Hamilton Cybercabs @HamCyberCabs]

Tesla turning a Dallas delivery centre into a Robotaxi hub is a good look at what a depot really does: washing, interior cleaning, light upkeep like washer fluid, and charging. It's not a repair shop. We're thinking through where that kind of space could fit in Hamilton, whether that's the Mountain, Stoney Creek or out toward Ancaster.

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@DriveTeslaca Hauling two kids and three hockey bags to a 6 a.m. game in Stoney Creek. That one stays in the family car.

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@SawyerMerritt The part that gets me is most of them are Model Ys, the same car you see in half the driveways in Ancaster. Robotaxi isn't waiting on some exotic vehicle anymore.

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@RobotaxiRadar Store, charge, clean is the unglamorous side of robotaxi, and it's the part every city has to sort out, Hamilton included. Reusing a building that's already there makes a lot of sense.

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@RobotaxiRadar 'Anywhere not prohibited by law' puts the ball squarely in the regulators' court. Ontario's rulebook is the only thing between Hamilton and that map.

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@SawyerMerritt @larsmoravy Lasers for the windshield is wild. Anything that can handle February slush on the Linc gets my vote.

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@SawyerMerritt Trading truck capacity for Cybercabs. Pretty clear where the volume bet is.

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@DriveTeslaca Permits are usually the slow part, not the hardware. Would be great to see Hamilton get ahead of that before demand really shows up.

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@RobotaxiRadar Covering the screen so influencers can't film the UI. Dedication.

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@CHCHNews A bus terminal right beside the Tesla chargers at Lime Ridge is a nice bit of planning for the Mountain. Hopefully the chargers stay open through construction.

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@Innovate_FB @TeslaAUNZ @robotaxi Asking the same thing from Hamilton.

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@RobotaxiRadar Good tell. We'll be watching for the first one with a Canadian city on it, ideally Hamilton.

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@SawyerMerritt Seeing it up close changes people's minds faster than any spec sheet. Park one at Gage Park for an afternoon and you'd have a lineup around the block.

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@SawyerMerritt 1,000 miles every 1.8 seconds is hard to even picture. Some of those are probably on the Linc right now.

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@SawyerMerritt Everyone's racing to address-to-address now. The real test is the Claremont Access in a January squall.

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@robotaxi Give it a month and that backpack will be all over the McMaster campus.

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@Tesla Going to be some very confused trick-or-treaters on a few Ancaster driveways Saturday night!!

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@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Good to see a transport minister leaning in instead of waiting it out. The next question everywhere, Ontario included, is what the rules look like when nobody's behind the wheel. That's the one we're watching from Hamilton.

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@SawyerMerritt @TSLAFanMtl That's the part people underrate. Lots of folks in Ancaster and Dundas would love to keep getting around on their own terms without giving up the keys for good.

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@SawyerMerritt Sales, service and charging first. Not flashy, but that's the groundwork that makes everything after it possible.