The City of Austin Texas Considers Tesla Robotaxi to Be a LIVE Deployment

The City of Austin Texas government has set the official indicator to Tesla Robotaxi being deployed in Austin. Waymo is considered in the deployment phase. Waymo in 2025 in Austin has 43 official incidents. Waymo officially launched its autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Texas in March 4 2025. Waymo had 11 incidents in March, 3 …

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Tesla Over One Million Miles Per Year Runrate for Unsupervised Driving

All 1500+ new Tesla cars drive from the Fremony factory to the loading docks every day. This is about 2000 miles per day of driving without a human driver. They could also drive from truck offloads to shipping lots in Austin, Shanghai, Berlin. It will move up from 2000 miles per day to 6000-20000 miles …

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Tesla FSD 12.5.3 Will Be the ChatGPT Moment for Self Driving Cars

Elon Musk indicates taht FSD (Full Self Driving) version 12.5.3 will be the version of FSD 12.5 that will go to wide release. FSD 12.5 is getting reviews as a major step change in smoothness, reduced interventions, speed and confidence in supervised autonomous driving. Still some issues with this release, but you can see the …

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Baidu With Waymo-level Robotaxi Wants to Work With Tesla on Robotaxi in China

On May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu’s autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter’s upcoming Robotaxi service. The decision will be based on Tesla’s specific application models and the timing of their entry into the Chinese market. For those that …

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How Much Tesla FSD Sales Are Needed to Increase Margins by 1%

Tesla had 17.6% gross profit margins in Q4 2023 which was about $252 million per percent of gross margin. Tesla has released FSD 12.3.3 Supervised to all North American Tesla owners. If they were buy or subscribe to Tesla FSD and we converted monthly subscriptions were equalized to a purchase (starting an average 5 year …

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Third FSD Update in One Week – FSD 12.3.3

Tesla has had its third FSD update in one week. The latest update is Tesla FSD 12.3.3. The previous versions were FSD 12.3.2 and 12.3.2.1. Those were reported to be better than FSD 12.3.1. FSD 12.3.1 had crowdsourced data that it was getting 384 miles before a critical disengagement. This would be about 3 times …

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Elon Says FSD V12.4 Is Way Better than Very Good FSD V12.3

Elon Musk says Tesla FSD V12.4 is another big jump in capabilities and the training compute limitations are almost gone. AI expert James Douma had said that with additional training and data, he expected FSD V12.X to reach 0.1-1% of the interventions for Tesla FSD v11.X. If the level of improvement expected by James Douma …

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Tesla FSD V12.2.1 Drives

Youtuber Whole Mars has uploaded new video of drives using Tesla FSD V12.2.1. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging …

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