BREAKING: Tesla just revealed the 2025 Holiday Update, here’s a TLDR:
Maps:
- HOV lanes can be disabled with FSD
- HOV lanes can also automated based on time, location, passenger count & road restrictions
- Grok can now add stops, edit trips, & set destinations based on conversations (only works in assistant mode)
- Can now reorder favorites
- Set home & work by dropping a pin on the map
- Supercharger availability now shows on the left hud
- You can now save a charge limit based on location
ToyBox:
- Can now use the cabin camera to take selfies with filters, stickers, and emojis
- Rave cave now includes rainbow mode
- Lock sound now includes the Tron Light Cycle noise
- Santa Mode adds snowmen, trees, a lock chime & snow
- Can now change the main display cars window tints, add custom wraps, & customize license plates
- Become an astronaut in the ISS docking simulator
Lightshow:
- New lightshow: Jingle Rush
- Can now sync with friends
- Can control interior lighting, add display color effects & create longer shows
Misc:
- Dashcam footage now includes speed, steering wheel angle & self-driving state
- Your vehicle will make a small chime if you leave your phone in the car (can be disabled)
- Dog mode now has a live activity on iPhone
- Disable wireless charging pads
- Queue Spotify tracks from search & scroll through longer playlists without pages
You can now 'text and drive' using Tesla FSD.
However, THIS IS NOT APPROVED BY REGULATORS.
This is simply Tesla being so confident in their FSD suite that they think the car is safer than the human in certain situations.
THIS STILL MEANS THAT IF A COP SEES YOU ON YOUR PHONE, YOU'RE GETTING YOUR ASS PULLED OVER.
The signal here is that Tesla's self-driving tech will continue to vastly outpace regulation unless something changes, which will continue to make it VERY difficult for the masses to really grasp WTF is happening with transportation.
Plan accordingly $TSLA
I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today, so I immediately took it out for an FSD test drive, a bit like I used to do almost daily for 5 years. Basically... I'm amazed - it drives really, really well, smooth, confident, noticeably better than what I'm used to on HW3 (my previous car) and eons ahead of the version I remember driving up highway 280 on my first day at Tesla ~9 years ago, where I had to intervene every time the road mildly curved or sloped. (note this is v13, my car hasn't been offered the latest v14 yet)
On the highway, I felt like a passenger in some super high tech Maglev train pod - the car is locked in the center of the lane while I'm looking out from Model X's higher vantage point and its panoramic front window, listening to the (incredible) sound system, or chatting with Grok. On city streets, the car casually handled a number of tricky scenarios that I remember losing sleep over just a few years ago. It negotiated incoming cars in tight lanes, it gracefully went around construction and temporarily in-lane stationary cars, it correctly timed tricky left turns with incoming traffic from both sides, it gracefully gave way to the car that went out of order in the 4-way stop sign, it found a way to squeeze into a bumper to bumper traffic to make its turn, it overtook the bus that was loading passengers but still stopped for the stop sign that was blocked by the bus, and at the end of the route it circled around a parking lot, found a spot and... parked. Basically a flawless drive.
For context, I'm used to going out for a brief test drive around the neighborhood to return with 20 clips of things that could be improved. It's new for me to do just that and exactly like I used to, but come back with nothing. Perfect drive, no notes. I expect there's still more work for the team in the long march of 9s, but it's just so cool to see that we're beyond finding issues on any individual ~1 hour drive around the neighborhood, you actually have to go to the fleet and mine them. Back then, I processed the incredible promise of vehicle autonomy at scale (in the fully scaleable, vision only, end-to-end Tesla way) only intellectually, but now it is possible to feel it intuitively too if you just go out for a drive. Wait, of course surround video stream at 60Hz processed by a fully dedicated "driving brain" neural net will work, and it will be so much better and safer than a human driver. Did anyone else think otherwise?
I also watched @aelluswamy 's new ICCV25 talk last week (https://t.co/RdaM23kvez) that hints at some of the recent under the hood technical components driving this progress. Sensor streams (videos, maps, kinematics, audio, ...) over long contexts (e.g. ~30 seconds) go into a big neural net, steering/acceleration comes out, optionally with visualization auxiliary data. This is the dream of the complete Software 1.0 -> Software 2.0 re-write that scales fully with data streaming from millions of cars in the fleet and the compute capacity of your chip, not some engineer's clever new DoubleParkedCarHandler C++ abstraction with undefined test-time characteristics of memory and runtime. There's a lot more hints in the video on where things are going with the emerging "robotics+AI at scale stack". World reconstructors, world simulators "dreaming" dynamics, RL, all of these components general, foundational, neural net based, how the car is really just one kind of robot... are people getting this yet?
Huge congrats to the team - you're building magic objects of the future, you rock! And I love my car <3.
Watch how the CNBC cast, who were honestly a majority doubters of Tesla and Elon Musk in the past, all of a sudden become believers after seeing and interacting with the Optimus.
This is what it looks like when people go from becoming a doubter to a believer.
Every major technological shift goes through these phases.
1/ first they doubt
2/ then they laugh
3/ and eventually, they are forced to adapt
The transition is always bumpy before it becomes obvious.
$TSLA 🇨🇳
BREAKING: Tesla China shared the latest video inside the Shanghai Gigafactory.
The video also shows the production line of the Model YL.
Check it out!
BREAKING: Tesla has officially announced that FSD (Supervised) is launching in Australia, marking a huge milestone for the company.
The rollout will happen in stages. HW4 Model 3s and Model Ys will get it first. Tesla says it is "very close" to being unlocked in customer cars.
It will be available for purchase outright as a $10,100 option, or through a subscription model. Tesla hasn't released the subscription price yet.
$TSLA has been consolidated for 5 years
This is actually normal for Tesla
The next run is coming very soon
And will most likely be the biggest surge yet
Here’s why: 👇