Tesla is building a purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle, a company policy advisor told lawmakers in Washington, DC, on Monday. But Tesla gave no timeline, no vehicle, and no details, and it’s not clear the “active product” is anything more than the Robovan it unveiled nearly two years ago. What Tesla told the DC City Council The claim came during a Monday hearing before the DC City Council on a bill that could let robotaxi services operate in the District. “We are in development for a purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle,” Tesla senior policy advisor India Herdman told council members, according to WIRED, which first reported the comments. “We know that paratransit can be very difficult, and people who are confined to wheelchairs permanently should still be able to move around freely, so that is an active product being built by Tesla in Texas,” she said. Tesla didn’t respond to WIRED’s request for comment, and Herdman gave no indication of when such a vehicle might arrive. Tesla routinely takes years to bring an announced product to market, when it delivers it at all. None of Tesla’s current vehicles can do this Tesla operates a small driverless fleet in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, and, as of this month, Miami. Those rides use the Model Y, a compact SUV that is not wheelchair accessible. The company has also started building its purpose-built Cybercab, a two-seat vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals. Tesla highlighted the Cybercab’s accessibility features in an X post this month, including braille lettering on controls and wheelchair-height seating for easier transfers, but a two-seater a passenger has to climb into is not a wheelchair-accessible vehicle in any meaningful sense. Tesla has hinted at accessible rides before. It added an accessibility tab to its Robotaxi app last fall that reads “We