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Waymo closed a $5 billion term loan, its first ever debt deal, with PIMCO, Blackstone, and Sixth Street leading. It started out looking for about $3 billion and lenders wanted more.
Exactly two years after the Cybercab was unveiled, Tesla's Robotaxi account says more than 300 of them now serve Austin, an 8x jump in 30 days. Tesla's head of AI software says Dallas is next.
Tesla opened Semi Megacharger stations near Atlanta and Savannah, 220 miles apart, including the first one at a Pilot truck stop. A 325 mile Semi can now run the Savannah port to Atlanta lane and back on electricity.
Tesla's European websites now call FSD 'Tesla Assisted Driving,' after Germany said the old name was misleading. In return, Berlin is backing Tesla's push for EU-wide approval, which now needs a vote that slipped to December at the earliest.
On Oct. 8, Pony.ai said it will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, with the service planned for the Uber app. It puts a Chinese robotaxi on the same streets where Uber and Wayve launched rides in September.
On Oct. 8, Tesla added 150 Cybercabs to the Texas automated vehicle registry, its biggest batch yet, bringing the count to 319 and the total robotaxi fleet to 739. A day later, Tesla posted 'Floodgates are opening' over a photo of four Cybercabs in traffic.
The Oct. 1 Roadster reveal in Waco never happened. Tesla blamed severe weather and moved it to Thursday, Oct. 15. A week out, there is still no start time and no confirmed livestream.
On Oct. 6 Waymo said fully autonomous employee rides are live in downtown Detroit and nearby neighborhoods. Public service waits on local validation.
From Oct. 12 to 18, the Paris Motor Show's new Autonomous Lab will put visitors in six Tesla Model 3s running FSD (Supervised) and two XPeng L03s running NGP on open roads, even though neither system is approved for sale in France.
Tesla pushed its Austin Robotaxi hours one hour later, to 11 p.m. Texas records show 169 Cybercabs cleared for paid rides, up from 45 at the Sept. 3 launch. Musk says pets at night are the holdup.
Gov. Newsom signed SB 1246 on Sept. 30. Starting July 1, 2028, a robotaxi that blocks an emergency for more than 30 minutes after a technician is requested can cost its company up to $10,000 per vehicle.
At its Sept. 23 investor day in Dallas, Aurora offered rides with nobody at the wheel on a piece of its freight route, and said Roush is aiming to upfit 20 trucks a week in October.
Tesla opened its high-volume Semi plant in Sparks, Nevada, on Sept. 24 and says deliveries to a first group of customers started this week. It gave a 50,000-a-year capacity number, but no price and no current production rate.
Dubai's RTA opened Dubai Mobility Labs at Dubai Silicon Oasis on Sept. 27. It mixes test tracks with public-road trials, DEKRA runs it, and WeRide, Pony.ai, and Tesla have already been through it.
Roughly 4,000 robotaxis, 500,000 paid rides a week, and a 49% Texas surge in three weeks, driven by Chinese-built Ojai minivans Waymo is willing to tariff into profitability.
Amazon-owned Zoox already charges fares in Las Vegas. The NTA’s 100-vehicle first-year limit lifts Sept. 25. Expansion room matters more than a ribbon-cutting.
Germany’s KBA cleared an SAE Level 4 cab-less electric truck for daily Lidl store runs in Edermünde — no driver in the cab, remote backup, mid-September start.
U.S. safety regulators gave Tesla until Sept. 30 to answer under oath how the no-wheel, no-pedals Cybercab was certified legal to sell.
After a year of slipped 2026 dates, Tesla locked a Thursday Oct. 1 reveal in Waco at 8:30 p.m. ET — invites out, thruster teaser on, near SpaceX McGregor.
2028 Singapore commercial aim, 2027 manual miles first. International robotaxis aren't a map paint job — they're weather, geometry, and local partners.
Coverage maps look like victory laps. Utilization, interventions, and rainy Tuesdays tell you who's actually winning.
NHTSA Audit Query AQ26002 is asking how Tesla self-certified ~1,000 Cybercabs with no steering wheel, pedals, or mirrors — after commercial rides began in Austin on Sept. 3.
Ashok Elluswamy told the Cybercab crowd Tesla hit 1M unsupervised Robotaxi miles — up from 380k six weeks earlier. Real claim, tiny vs Waymo, and the word “unsupervised” is the whole story.