Tesla Robotaxi service access has officially gone wide to all Apple iOS users. @Tesla has opened access today to BOTH its ride-hailing service in the Bay Area and its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas. People who just downloaded the app tell me they got immediate access to the service. BREAKING: Tesla Robotaxi service access has …
Elon Musk bought 2 million shares of Tesla in a bold show of confidence in Tesla. This supports my thesis and video from the other day. 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 …
Tesla doubled the service area in Austin and might have tripled the number of vehicles from 11-15 to 35 in July, 2025. This means that Tesla has one third of the fleet compared to the 100 Waymo in Austin. Tesla will also add 10-15 this weekend in San Francisco. If Gene Munster is incorrect or …
Ford CEO Jim Farley says Waymo’s approach to self driving makes more sense than Tesla’s. Ford has said it plans to partner with a self-driving software company once the technology is farther along. Ark Invest Brett Winton believes in the negotiations between Ford and Waymo and Ford and Tesla, that Tesla wants Ford to pay …
There is a lot of controversy about the Tesla Safety Monitor in the Tesla Austin Robotaxi rollout. The Tesla safety monitor has access to buttons (pullover or stop in lane) which are two forms of emergency stop. On a train there is the emergency stop button or lever. Everyone on the train can hit or …
New Tesla cars in Berlin have joined new cars at the Tesla Fremont Factory and GigaTexas to drive to loading areas without human drivers. Once all Tesla cars in Shanghai and the all factories are without human drivers then it will be about 5000 cars per day driving a mile or two without human drivers. …
The Mark Rober created fake wall test was used to trick Tesla Autopilot, a driver assist system. This fake wall test was also recreated for new tests with different versions of Tesla FSD and Tesla with Hardware 3 and Hardware 4. Tesla FSD 12.X with Hardware 3 fails the test. Tesla FSD 13.2.X with Hardware …
Tesla China has officially announced that the FSD update for HW3 and HW4 vehicles will be available via OTA. Also, the paused FSD 1 month trial will be re-distributed. Everything is currently pending regulatory approval. China appears close to giving full approval for Tesla FSD. A Chinese driver owns both a Tesla vehicle with FSD …
Youtuber Mark Rober made a video sponsored by Luminar Lidar (valuation about $170M-200 Million) which used a large billboard sized picture of the road ahead to supposedly causes Tesla Autopilot to fail. Reviewers online have claimed that Tesla FSD was never engaged and was Full Self Driving was never claimed to be used. It was …
Cern Basher and Ark Invest provides some analysis and tracking of the rapidly improving quality of Tesla FSD and robotaxi. Tesla is will soon pass the 6 billion miles of driving data which Elon said in 2016 would be needed for robotaxi that is both safe enough and provably safe for regulators. Tesla is on …
Tesla is preparing to roll out its FSD feature in China and will provide a batch of software updates to Chinese EV owners. Launching Tesla FSD (Supervised) in China would add another 3 million potential customers. At a 35% take rate of $99 per month, it would be about $1 billion in profit per year. …