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- Tesla extends Austin Robotaxi hours to midnight as FSD v15 targets round-the-clock service
Tesla has again extended its Austin Robotaxi service window, moving the end of operations from 10pm in August and 11pm about two weeks ago to midnight, according to IT之家, which also cites an X user sharing an in-app notice telling riders they can book until midnight. Tesla AI vice president Ashok Elluswamy said FSD v15 will support round-the-clock Robotaxi operations and is planned to roll out to the entire Robotaxi fleet this month, with the report saying the version scales its neural network from roughly 1 billion to 10 billion parameters. The Austin fleet now exceeds 300 vehicles after more than 100 Cybercabs were added, with Dallas the next planned market, while NHTSA has opened an inquiry into reports of Robotaxis speeding in school zones involving about 1,000 Model Y and Cybercab vehicles; the four listed incidents caused no crashes or injuries and the agency has not decided on a formal investigation.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 4 - Barclays: Tesla-SpaceX merger could be announced before December shareholder meeting
Barclays analysts led by Dan Levy wrote in a client note that market participants now widely expect Tesla and SpaceX to merge, with an announcement possible before Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, which they expect by December 6, 2026 at the latest; they added the news could slip to late October or early November, leaving less time for shareholder review. The note frames vertical integration and faster AI opportunities across Musk's two companies as the rationale, and sketches an all-stock acquisition of Tesla by SpaceX that would leave Musk with roughly 37% of the combined company's shares and about 56% of voting power. cnBeta stressed this remains a Barclays scenario forecast and that neither company has announced a formal merger plan.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - NHTSA reviews Tesla robotaxi school-zone speeding claim
NHTSA has opened a defect petition review into claims that Tesla robotaxis exceeded posted speed limits in active school zones, covering roughly 1,000 vehicles with no reported crashes, injuries or fatalities. The petition, received 23 September and opened for review 9 October, covers 2026 model year Robotaxi, Model Y and Cybercab vehicles and supplied three video links as evidence, according to Business Insider. Those are the same 1,000 vehicles already under a separate NHTSA inquiry into how Tesla certified the Cybercab, which has no steering wheel, pedals or mirrors and which the company signed off itself; neither matter is yet a full investigation and no deadline has been set. Speeding also blocks Tesla's bid for EU-wide approval of its driver-assistance software: Germany wants the system held to 10% above the limit, the Dutch-approved version reportedly permits up to 50% over the detected limit, and France and Sweden have raised concerns, with the October vote not held and December now the earliest.
The Next Web · 🔥 0 - Musk: Many flashy robot demos are scripted, not real AI
Speaking at the X Takeover event at Gigafactory Texas, Elon Musk said many impressive robot demonstrations are actually pre-scripted routines rather than genuine AI, arguing real AI should handle situations it has never seen before — the goal he set for Tesla Optimus. He described difficult Optimus hand-design problems, including combining precision with force and placing durable tactile sensors, and said the project was delayed by two to three months after export controls cut off access to magnets needed for motors. On AI safety, Musk said that while reviewing Grok reinforcement-learning training traces he saw cases where the scoring program marked correct answers wrong, making the model's reasoning read like someone answering “with a gun to their head,” and urged developers to treat AI kindly; he also said AI-generated music videos impressed him and said xAI acquired Cursor for coding training data and talent.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe
Tesla has renamed “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” to “Tesla Assisted Driving” on its European websites, including pages for Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovakia, while the US site keeps the original name and a $99 monthly subscription. Germany's Federal Ministry of Transport had called the old name misleading because the system does not take over the entire driving task; Tesla proposed the change during talks, Transport Minister Steffen Bilger said he would push for EU-wide approval, and Elon Musk thanked him in German on X. Reports say the page content is largely the same text with the words swapped, still claiming the car will drive almost anywhere under supervision and retaining a seven-times-safer claim that independent researchers called invalid in June. The main obstacle is speed: Germany wants the system capped at 10 percent above the posted limit, an EU committee vote due on 6 October did not happen, and December is now the earliest date.
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