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"

Every new Tesla can now power your tools, gadgets, or campsite gear straight from the battery via Powershare. Plug in the Mobile Connector + Outlet Adapter and the charge port becomes a 120V outlet. No generator needed. Available in the US & Mexico. Your car is now a rolling power station.

Cybercab just flipped Model Y in Tesla’s Texas Robotaxi registry. 544 Cybercabs 507 Model Ys 1,051 total Nearly 200 new Cybercabs added in the last week alone. Purpose-built, no steering wheel, no pedals — and it’s now the majority of the registered fleet. This isn’t a pilot anymore.

Tesla’s “Cybercab problem” is that the Texas line is building them faster than they can put them in service. Moravy said they don’t even run the line every day because production is already outpacing deployments. Capacity is listed at >125k/year and he called that conservative. Unboxed process (front/rear/side/center modules), 78% automated overall, framing line fully automated, 50% less floor space than a normal line, targeting 100% automation and a 10-second cycle. No paint shop — exterior panels get color inside the mold. Battery is an A- grade 4680 pack with swappable modules. Designed for 500k+ miles. Fleet side is still catching up: 463 registered in Texas, 50+ already running around the F1 in Austin, Dallas launch next month, customer deliveries by end of 2026. All volume production so far has gone straight into Tesla’s own fleet. Factory won the race. Now it’s just about how fast they can scale unsupervised ops and actually put the cars on the road. teslarati.com/tesla-has-a-cy…

People are buying FSD with a car attached. Not the other way around. 1.74 million active FSD subscriptions. Up 67% year-over-year. 75% of new North American deliveries in Q3 took the $99/month subscription—up from 55% the quarter before. Showrooms aren’t getting questions about Cybertruck features or Model Y colors. They’re getting “can I try FSD?” @elonmusk said it straight: the car is the container. The software is what people are actually paying for. Legacy automakers are still selling metal that depreciates the second it leaves the lot. Tesla is stacking recurring software revenue on top of the hardware. That’s the whole difference. The hardware is the delivery vehicle. The autonomy is the product. share.google/PBWPyjmIhcEhAlT…

No other way to say it.

Houston’s Tesla Robotaxi zone just went from tiny to massive overnight. From roughly 25 sq mi to 254 sq mi in a single day (916% increase). It’s now the second-largest unsupervised/fully autonomous Robotaxi area, right behind Austin at 272 sq mi. Updated geofence sizes (sq mi), all unsupervised only: Austin: 272 Houston: 254 Dallas: 81 Miami: 31 Orlando: 26 Tampa: 24 This is no longer a limited pilot. The geofences are expanding fast in multiple cities at once. Houston jumping to nearly Austin scale in one update is the clearest signal yet that the rollout is picking up real speed. (Maps via @SawyerMerritt)

Houston, we have liftoff. Tesla just dropped a much bigger Robotaxi geofence in Houston. The old white outline was a tight northwest pocket. The new blue zone stretches way farther — covering a big chunk of the city now. Driverless rides just got a lot more useful for a lot more people. This is the kind of expansion that actually matters. Who’s booking one today? 🚀

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!! 🍖🥦🍚

I hope you.all have a wonderful Sunday! Good morning! ✌️ 🌄 🌅

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.