Autonomy

Tesla's Texas Robotaxi roster passed 1,000 on Tuesday, and Cybercabs now outnumber Model Ys 544 to 507. Tesla also says Optimus will soon plug the cars in to charge, and Musk says beach coverage is 'coming soon' in Miami and Tampa.

Japan Airlines and Fukuoka International Airport started Level 4 driverless operation of a cargo towing tractor on Oct. 26, the first in western Japan and JAL's third airport after Haneda and Narita. One unit runs now, with four planned by March.

Tesla expanded its Houston Robotaxi service area about tenfold on Monday, to roughly 254 square miles running from northwest Houston through downtown to Bellaire, and the new map looks a lot like Starship. Musk says it's a coincidence. Meanwhile, Tesla says its Cybercab line is outpacing deployments.

In a Munro Live tour of the Cybercab line, Tesla engineers gave the Model Y structural pack a 'D' and the Cybercab pack an 'A minus,' said the new inverter goes into Model 3 production this year, and admitted the line runs so fast it doesn't need to run every day.

Tesla's updated FSD (Supervised) safety report puts cars with the system engaged at 6,006,200 miles per major collision, about nine times the U.S. average and three times a manually driven Tesla with active safety on. Fleet FSD miles hit 16.7 billion.

From Oct. 28, Turo lets U.S. travelers book Teslas with FSD (Supervised) verified through Tesla's API. Eligible hosts get a free one-month FSD trial. Model 3 and Model Y are already Turo's third- and fourth-most popular cars.

Latvia's road safety authority CSDD has recognized the Dutch approval for Tesla Assisted Driving, formerly FSD (Supervised), making it the 10th EU country. CSDD cited Tesla changes: a lower speeding threshold, offsets that reset after every trip and stronger driver monitoring. Rollout 'begins soon.'

Xpeng's robotaxi unit, Xpeng Yoyo, has won approval to run Level 4 trial operations across all of Guangzhou. Access still opens gradually by invite code. The GX-based car is vision-only with four Turing chips, and Xpeng wants to drop safety drivers in 2027.

More than 50 Tesla Cybercabs were spotted dropping off fans at the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin on race day, and Tesla's Robotaxi account summed it up in one word: "Swarm." Tesla added 43 Cybercabs to its Texas roster on Saturday, taking the fleet to 970.

As of August, about 61 million passenger cars in China had Level 2 driver assistance, and about 15 million of them had navigate-on-autopilot (NOA), China's CAICT said at the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference. MIIT also floated new standards and a second batch of L3 pilots.