Warning! to all Tesla drivers, WE HAD AN ACCIDENT ON FSD that should not have been and I wanted to share what happened so it will not happen to you. My partner and I were in Yellowstone National Park coming down a curvy hill. The car was on FSD and I was in the drivers seat. My partner had opened the computer screen looking for a function and opened "controls" to look for it. He tried to scroll down not realizing he was already at the bottom of the page and inadvertently touched the "NEUTRAL" icon. Without any warning the car came out of FSD. We were going down a hill around a curve, I took over immediately and we were lucky enough to only hit a guardrail causing damage to the side of the Tesla but fortunately no known injuries. Again, His thumb inadvertently hit the "Neutral" button while scrolling and this caused the car to come out of FSD while it was moving at speed down a highway. We in no way desired the car to be in neutral and it shocked and scared the crap out of us. If we had been going 80 MPH down the freeway or on a curve without a guardrail...this could have been much worse. Because it came out of FSD automatically by the car itself, the new screen that pops up asking you why you came out of FSD did not appear so feed back was not sent and I did not have the sense at the moment to send a clip, although I am not sure how to do this anyway. I did save the memory stick and the police have taken the video to analyze further. I could not find a reasonable way to contact Tesla and inform them of this "neutralising" function and advise this should probably be turned off in FSD or made much harder to activate it. If anyone knows how to share this further with Tesla, please let me know. And everyone who is using FSD, please be cautious about scrolling the control screen when you are driving. Here is a picture of the icon/button I am talking about. @Tesla @elonmusk @aelluswamy @larsmoravy @woodhaus2 @omead @tesla_na Courtesy of Nancy Krist Douglas from the "Tesla Model Y Juniper owners club on Facebook"

US just proposed rules that finally treat self-driving cars like self-driving cars instead of regular cars with a ghost driver. NHTSA wants optional cyan marker lights so everyone (cops, pedestrians, other drivers) can instantly tell when the automated system is operating the vehicle. They’re also dropping or relaxing requirements for manual turn signal levers, hazard switches, and other human-driver controls that make zero sense on a car with no steering wheel or pedals. This is actual red-tape cutting for purpose-built robotaxis (Cybercab, Zoox-style vehicles, etc.) instead of forcing every company through endless individual exemptions. Still has a comment period and isn’t final, but the direction is the right one. share.google/7NYF9EODmMeSiFi…

Another happy Tesla owner! 🚗 "Just got the Ultra Red YL yesterday and traded in the 2026 Marine Blue MYP. Ordered 8/4, took delivery 10/21. Southeast US. Before anyone asks why I dumped the MYP: I don’t use the performance and I’ve got a baby. Liked the MYP design, that’s why I bought it. If the YL had dropped earlier this year I would’ve gone straight for that instead. Differences I noticed: YL sits higher than the MYP. MYP (even with adaptive dampers) is tuned a bit harsher. YL soaks up the top of the bumps better—very obvious switching from one to the other. Rear comfort mode also cuts the swaying for the back seats. Front seats feel about the same but are a bit wider on the YL. Headrest is more comfortable since it’s adjustable and gives my neck somewhere to rest. Sound system is 5-10% better to my ears with the same EQ. Extra speaker comes through a bit more airy in the bigger cabin. Sunroof blocks more heat. Felt it immediately on the drive home compared to the MYP. Zen gray is subtle, not in-your-face like the white in the MYP. Prefer it so it doesn’t blind me. Door materials are nicer. Not suede—vinyl leather with a matte/rough texture that’s still easy to clean. Ceramic coating the seats and panels this week. Some previous accessories still fit. Front floor mats are the exact same size, front storage bins, cup holders, and front door pockets are identical. Ask if you’ve got questions. Otherwise the YL is solid and the Ultra Red with the stance looks classy in person."

Swarm. Tesla didn’t just expand the Austin Robotaxi geofence to COTA for F1 weekend. They showed up with a proper convoy. Long line of gold Cybercabs (and a few Model Ys) rolling out like they own the road — because at this point they basically do. No safety drivers, no drama, just a fleet of autonomous cars reporting for work while 100k+ people try to figure out parking and Uber surge pricing. This is what scaling actually looks like: not a press release, just a swarm of driverless Teslas handling a real event with real crowds and real traffic. The future isn’t coming. It’s already lined up on the shoulder.

A massive tree trunk fell on a Cybertruck in Texas and broke in half. The truck walked away with scratches that wiped off with a rag. Owner pushed the trunk off and left—didn’t even call the building owner. Stainless steel doing stainless steel things. share.google/DegJ2yawC3VB2TX…

Cybercabs are running real passenger service at the US Grand Prix in Austin today. Tesla expanded the Robotaxi geofence just days ago to cover COTA, and community trackers already logged a record ~1,250 sightings yesterday with ~93% driverless. This isn’t a demo or a press release. It’s unsupervised vehicles handling drop-offs at one of the biggest events of the year while the rest of the AV industry is still mostly talking about it.

What is everyone having for lunch today? I'm having broccoli and beef and white rice!! 🍖🥦🍚

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Chinese EVs just found the loophole Western tariffs were supposed to block. Used Chinese EVs (BYD, Geely, Zeekr, etc.) are pouring into Europe and Canada at roughly 40% below their original Chinese MSRP. One importer (China EV Marketplace) says pre-owned sales to EU buyers jumped 280% year-over-year to 7,900 units through September. Inventory is sitting at 2,600+ cars and refreshing almost daily. The reason it works: new Chinese BEVs face tariffs as high as 45.3% in the EU plus new hybrid quotas. Used cars are exempt from both. So Europeans are buying low-mileage examples (~6,000 km) that undercut local options while carrying the same tech Western brands are struggling to match on price. Protectionism on new cars just pushed the volume into the used market instead. electrek.co/2026/10/24/chine…

Cybertruck owner in Texas has been rolling for 3 weeks with plastic wrap taped over the passenger window because it stuck open ~3 inches and Tesla service says the part is three weeks out. He saved five years for his first Tesla (3,000 miles on it). Window wouldn’t drop with the door, then wouldn’t go back up. Calibration and hard reset did nothing. He drove to the service center with the plastic already on it so they’d take him seriously. Employee was cool, never seen the failure before, guessed actuator, couldn’t expedite the part. Meanwhile he’s getting coal-rolled so hard the new-car smell is gone, replaced by diesel. People are telling him the truck looks like a dumpster. He has to pull over every 10 minutes to restick the plastic. He still posted in the owners group that it’s the best vehicle he’s ever driven and the occasional blips are worth it. That’s either the most committed ownership story of the year or peak “I already paid for this so it has to be good.” Either way, the stainless steel apocalypse truck is currently held together with cling wrap and spite. share.google/y4lsblDgHLO8xOk…

Used Ford Lightnings are moving nearly twice as fast as new EVs because the price finally makes sense. New ones sat on lots at ~$75k. Used 2022-23 models are averaging $40k-$43k and turning in under 40 days (vs 68-82 days for new EVs). Same full-size truck capability, Pro Power outlets, and a transferable 8-year/100k battery warranty. Buyers didn’t reject the truck. They rejected the original sticker. The secondary market did what Ford couldn’t. torquenews.com/18013/drivers…

The next-gen Tesla Roadster (Thrust trim) is now on public display in the main lobby of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles through October 27. This is the same vehicle from the October 14 McGregor unveiling. Thrust trim requires a $250k deposit.

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Tesla’s Texas Robotaxi registry just went from 314 vehicles on September 1 to 927. That’s +195% in under two months, or about 11.8 new cars a day. 420 of those are now Cybercabs. Not converted Model Ys — the purpose-built two-seaters with no steering wheel or pedals. Waymo added 471 vehicles (+64%) in the same window. Tesla added more in raw numbers and grew more than three times faster by percentage. Registration isn’t the same as cars actively running paid rides, and the Texas list is statewide, not a live Austin utilization number. But the composition shift is the real signal: Tesla has stopped growing the Model Y robotaxi count and is pouring the adds into the dedicated vehicle. That’s the production ramp showing up in public records, not just earnings-call language. When you’re putting purpose-built vehicles on the registry at this pace, the network is moving past “supervised pilot” and into volume. Dallas is the next obvious test of whether the ops can keep up with the registrations.

Tesla just registered another 69 Cybercabs, pushing the Texas fleet to exactly 420. They knew what they were doing. 69 + 420 is peak Elon meme energy — the same guy who still jokes about funding secured at $420 and never lets a good number go to waste. Zero subtlety, maximum troll. At the same time the Roadster is out on display with that new retro-futuristic fighter-jet cockpit UI that actually looks next-level. Robotaxi fleet scaling hard while they flex the halo car.

Saw this and thought I would share. "Two years of hate for my CyberTruck Well it finally happened. 2 years I’ve been called names, given the finger, had gum left on my windshield, had my truck spit on etc… Tonight while sitting at a red light with my baby in the back and her mom minding my own business…A colored haired person pulls up and I see them calling me names the finger thumbs down etc…I roll down the window say you have something to say to me?? Starts calling me a p**sy, every name in the book and then a pedophile and that set me off so I lost my cool asked them what it felt to be so retarded then stated mentally challenged to be politically correct and exchanged back and forth to be point the light turned green and I floored it. Seriously, what is wrong with these people…I don’t understand how a vehicle can trigger someone. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon. I over came homelessness at one point and I set goals for myself. My truck was a goal….It’s getting tiring at this point. I usually don’t engage with these idiots but calling me a pedophile, wtf. Also loved that this person was driving a beat up 2005 Dodge Dakota saying they had “A real truck” so here’s my truck doing truck things

Scary as hell in my 2022 Model Y Performance this past week. Roughly 125k on the clock, no real issues until a light clicking noise showed up recently. Rolling into a parking lot entrance at Newport and Tustin, a massive bang hit like something detonated. Instant total blackout—screen dies, power steering vanishes, hazards won’t light, windows won’t budge, car goes completely unresponsive. Doing about 20-30 in a turn, the wheel turns into a fight. It keeps rolling straight across the crosswalk and misses a signal pole by inches. I wrestled it far enough to stop another 50-100 feet down. My 13-year-old was in the passenger seat losing it. Midday heat, stuck inside until I remembered the emergency release to get us out. A Tesla software update had just finished overnight and the screen confirmed it when I started the drive. Irvine Service said the small battery failed and needed swapping. But does a dead 12V really explain the explosive bang, the sudden total power cut while moving, and ending up dead in the middle of an intersection? Driver’s window was fine on the tow truck. By the time I picked up the loaner it was shattered. Still figuring out how and when that happened. Bought it new. High miles or not, nothing like this should show up with zero warning. Anyone else had a Model Y go completely dead on them while driving, especially after an update? Heard a loud bang right before the lights went out? What did Tesla actually say caused it and how was it fixed? We walked away fine. Could have gone way worse.

Tesla just expanded Robotaxi service in Austin to cover the F1 track at COTA ahead of race weekend. ~400k people expected. Service hours extended to 1 AM so fans can actually get home after the event instead of sitting in a rideshare hellscape. This is a real-world stress test with actual demand, not another staged demo. If wait times stay reasonable through that kind of surge, a lot of the “autonomy doesn’t scale” takes start looking pretty weak. $TSLA