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[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

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[APAJI @apaji_x]

BREAKING: ADHD researchers confirm that having "one single appointment" at 3:00 PM successfully destroys the entire day leading up to it. 1/6

[APAJI @apaji_x]

BREAKING: ADHD researchers confirm that having "one single appointment" at 3:00 PM successfully destroys the entire day leading up to it. 1/6

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@Jason All that survive.

[Dave Lee @davelee]

Having no steering wheel or pedals in the Cybercab makes a much bigger difference than I expected.

In a Waymo or even Model Y robotaxi, you’ve got a steering wheel turning and an empty driver’s seat you can’t sit in. It keeps reminding you that someone/something is missing.

In the Cybercab, there’s no reminder that there should be a driver at all. They’ve taken all that stuff away, and you I felt much more relaxed, comfortable and safer.

Also, the video-watching (ie., Youtube) experience in the Cybercab is something you just need to experience to understand. For 30 minutes, I almost forgot I was in a car… I think it’s the combination of no driver controls, the huge 22 inch screen, great sound system, spacious interior and being able to lean back and adjust the seats to whatever angle.

You start to realize how much of a normal car is designed around the person driving. Once you remove that, the whole experience opens up.

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

Yes please. Greetings from Germany :)

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Tesla should make sure the Robotaxi app is available in all countries, so that visitors to the United States can download it easily

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@jamesdouma Dave and you should sit together again soon to discuss cybercab.

[Dave Lee @davelee]

I attended Tesla’s Cybercab launch in Austin and spent 2.5+ hours questioning engineers about unboxed manufacturing, the plastic exterior body panels, brake-by-wire, the battery pack, AI5 and more. My takeaway: Cybercab may be Tesla’s most important product since the Model 3.

I fit as much info as I could in this video. Hope it's helpful!

[Rob Maurer @robmaurer]

Cybercab is absolutely magical. Tesla has actually done it. A domestically mass-produced affordable autonomous electric vehicle is available to the general public. A car with no steering wheel generating revenue.

It’s sad to come back to a city without Robotaxi after being in Austin. Like stepping back in time. The event was awesome. I know it was tough to follow online, but we all knew the story going in.

This was a launch, not an unveiling. It felt like the city transformed immediately. Cybercabs were everywhere, you couldn’t take a trip without seeing another one. Outside of the ride experience itself, the scale of this launch is what I want to make sure people understand.

On previous trips, Robotaxi felt like a test network (an amazing one). Not anymore. Suddenly it’s real. It’s hard not to laugh when you ride past a Waymo in a Cybercab. Good luck… As I’ve said before, Robotaxi is way smoother than Waymo. It feels natural. Supernatural, really. This holds true for Cybercab. Waymo feels like a computer. And it looks like one too.

The production Cybercab is beautiful. It really is special. The color, the lines, the lighting, the doors. It looks great. While also being the most efficient car in history? Insane. I think it fits perfectly in the space between familiarity and the future. It doesn’t stick out, but it catches your attention. After exiting our first ride, there was a large group of 10-20 people. They were all talking about the Cybercab as we walked by. These doors are like gasoline on a word of mouth wildfire.

Our rides were flawless. Better than a human driver. No anxious moments. Cybercab is very comfortable, even at 6’2. Leg room is particularly notable. It would be tough to find a car that has this much leg room for two passengers at the same time. No pedals, center console, or multiple rows of seating creates a lot of space and a very open feel.

Robotaxi is unquestionably one of those products that will be way cheaper and way better than what existed before. I like those. No one is going to want to roll the dice on some random person and their car when the alternative is a private, safe, comfortable, clean, consistent, quiet, personalized Tesla with tons of room and a massive screen. It’s a premium experience on every level, and we get it cheaper thanks to technology. No noise or air pollution, either.

I don’t have much to critique. Little refinements that I know will happen. Pick up and drop off were satisfactory, over time will become excellent. Grok integration is already impressive, and it’s clear that we’ll eventually be able to just give directions like “pull over around the corner up there.” You can already have Grok update your destination in Robotaxi, it pushes the update to the Robotaxi app on your phone for approval.

I leave the event with more confidence in Tesla’s ability to scale, but also renewed patience. I have a greater appreciation for the intentionality of limitations (service area, times, fleet size) rather than seeing them simply as barriers that have yet to be overcome. I now believe the objective is to build slowly, safely, to critical mass. A tail-risk event is inevitable. The absolute last thing we need is some bad luck on a tail-risk event at an early stage before enough data exists to prove its rarity. That data is accumulating quickly and will become undeniable soon enough.

Huge congrats to Tesla and Elon for this incredible milestone. Decades of work culminating in a life-saving, sustainable, affordable, economically exceptional product. It’s all pretty surreal, a testament to vision and determination. I love this company!

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

An update on FSD Supervised in Europe

FSD is currently approved in five EU countries (NL, DK, BE, EE, LT), used by >70k customers for over 1 million km per day, and is 4.1x less likely to get into a crash compared to manual driving, measured across 100 million km on public EU roads.

Leading up to a potential EU-wide approval vote for FSD Supervised on October 6th, 2026, we have decided to open-source one of the key pieces of evidence used to support the Netherlands approval.

As a reminder, we adjusted the FSD design to be compliant with existing regulation (UN-R-171 DCAS) but requested an exemption for certain behaviors via the EU Article 39 procedure. The following dashboard is evidence of safety for those exemptions.

This exact dashboard was shared with all EU Member States in April 2026, shortly after RDW’s approval, and all data presented is from before that date.

https://t.co/hh2dAKi8oP

European countries recorded 19,400 road deaths in 2025. That's around 53 deaths/day, with the vast majority of these crashes attributed to human error. These deaths are largely preventable with technology we have today.

FSD Supervised is already saving lives where it’s approved – yet in much of Europe, that safety benefit remains locked behind bureaucracy.

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@SawyerMerritt I want to create a grocery shopping and kitchen Chef Assistent that helps me plan meals, do the grocery shopping and helps me eat healthy and discover new recipes.

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@wholemars @phibetakitten Highly recommend Dishoom for breakfast! https://t.co/Gc0HrAWxjK

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@benjitaylor @nikitabier Now you just have to change the logo…

[Tesla @Tesla]

FSD Supervised helps save lives

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@farzyness

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@niccruzpatane @SpaceXAI This logo is awful!

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@XFreeze Well, Amazon is worth more than all book selling companies combined. That’s insane!

[tobi lutke @tobi]

* Correct quote is “politically left” not socialist. Point stands. Entrepreneurs take potential and turn it into value that’s added to the global GDP. They capture a small amount of that value in the process which is a big part of the incentive. The rest goes to others, employees, shareholders, government, suppliers etc.

You can always criticize them. You can always criticize the redistribution efforts. But you should always remember that without them, there is very little new value enters society and that locks everyone in zero sum competition, sometimes war.

Entrepreneurs are load bearing for human thriving. It’s a glorious act to put yourself out there and build a company that provides good and services to everyone. And Elon is the best entrepreneur that ever was. You don’t have to like him, and sure he’s crazy, but otherwise he wouldn’t do crazy things. Same coin, two sides.

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

I really want to believe Steph Curry uses the Steph Curry Edition Fitbit Air, but weirdly… it has no basketball workout?

[Maximilian Ferdinand @mxmln_ferdinand]

@karrisaarinen 💯

[lusso @luusssso]

The mesmerizing orange of the Marienplatz U-Bahn station in Munich, Germany