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Tesla releases driver assist tech update ahead of expected major announcement
CNBC ^ | October 07, 2025 | Lora Kolodny

Posted on 10/07/2025 8:56:55 AM PDT by Red Badger

Key Points

* Tesla posted two videos on X teasing a big announcement on Tuesday.

* The stock rose more than 5% on Monday after the automaker released the videos.

* The unveiling could be a long-awaited lower-cost model, the next-generation Roadster, or something else.

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Tesla announced a new version of its full self-driving supervised technology Tuesday morning, but investors are looking for something bigger.

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s company shared a teaser clip featuring a logo-emblazoned, spinning component that could be anything from a wheel cover to a fan or turbine. The clip ended with the numbers “10/7,” indicating Tuesday’s date for the reveal.

Tesla posted a second clip to X on Sunday showing the outline of a vehicle’s headlights in the dark.

Shares climbed 5% Monday as the buzz grew online over what the announcement would be.

Investors expect a reveal of Tesla’s stripped-down, lower-cost Model Y, but are also hoping for updates on the next-generation Roadster that Musk has promised for years.

Or it could be something else.

The company hasn’t released a new model vehicle for sale since it began shipping the Cybertruck, its angular unpainted steel pickup, in late 2023.

Musk originally promoted the Cybertruck at an “unveiling” event in 2019, where his demo went awry and he shattered a window. The Cybertuck never achieved the level of popularity of Tesla’s Model 3 sedan or Model Y SUVs and has been the subject of at least eight voluntary recalls in the U.S.

With its auto sales in a multi-quarter slump, Tesla has been trying to shift investor attention to its future as a robotics and self-driving car business.

The slump has resulted, in part, from a consumer backlash against Musk, his endorsements of far-right political parties and figures, and his incendiary political rhetoric. But it’s also due to an aging lineup and increased competition from companies including Volkswagen and BYD.

In mid-October of last year, Tesla held its invitation-only, “We, Robot” event in Hollywood, where it showed off a low, two-seater Cybercab concept with no steering wheels or pedals. Musk said the driverless car would cost about $30,000.

As of the company’s second-quarter earnings call, it was not yet in production.

At an event in late 2017, Musk promised Tesla would make a next-generation Roadster, but the vehicle has never moved into production. In 2021, Musk promised the Roadster would be able to “fly,” and last year he said the elusive sports car was being redesigned in collaboration with SpaceX, his aerospace and defense contractor.

Musk has been promising to turn existing Tesla EVs into robotaxis with a software update for about a decade.

The company currently has human safety drivers in its Robotaxi-branded test and fleet vehicles, unlike robotaxi rivals like Alphabet’s Waymo and Baidu’s Apollo Go.

In the realm of humanoid robots, Musk has said Tesla’s Optimus robots will be capable of factory work or babysitting your kids, but they’ve yet to hit the market. Meanwhile, competitors like Agility Robotics and Unitree are already selling bipedal, humanoid robots.

Following a brutal first quarter that saw Tesla lose 36% of its value, the stock has been on a tear, jumping 40% in the third quarter. It’s now up 12% for the year. That stock price increase was aided by Musk, who purchased about $1 billion of Tesla stock himself in mid-September.

WATCH: Tesla teases new product launch

VIDEO AT LINK..............


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1 posted on 10/07/2025 8:56:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

fine, as long as they don’t offer ‘driver assisted colonoscopies’ while driving


2 posted on 10/07/2025 9:00:02 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Red Badger

a spinning componenet symbolizing a wheel, fan or turbine

Yes, bring back the steam turbine


3 posted on 10/07/2025 9:00:38 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

What I’m expecting:

A solid state battery that gives 1000 mile range and recharges in 15 minutes.

What I’ll probably get:

Look at the new paint colors now available!...........


4 posted on 10/07/2025 9:04:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger
The company hasn’t released a new model vehicle for sale since it began shipping the Cybertruck, its angular unpainted steel pickup, in late 2023.

Most of the cybertruck's I've seen had paint jobs. Makes me wonder what else in this CNBC article is wrong.

5 posted on 10/07/2025 9:16:35 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Is that true? I have seen probably ten Tesla Cybertrucks, and all of them had the steel finish. Is painting them a regional thing?


6 posted on 10/07/2025 9:19:01 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Red Badger

What I’m expecting:

A solid state battery that gives 1000 mile range and recharges in 15 minutes.

What I’ll probably get:

Look at the new paint colors now available!...........

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A hybrid that charges as you drive would be a good idea too.


7 posted on 10/07/2025 9:19:15 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: Tell It Right

There are many painted trucks here. The best one I’ve seen is done as a ‘woody’................


8 posted on 10/07/2025 9:19:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: rlmorel

The cybertrucks I’ve seen in Alabama are usually painted.


9 posted on 10/07/2025 9:21:47 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Interesting. I didn’t even know they offered paint jobs.


10 posted on 10/07/2025 9:25:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel

The many I’ve seen in eastern PA have been unpainted.


11 posted on 10/07/2025 9:26:42 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Fai Mao
A hybrid that charges as you drive would be a good idea too.

It’s hard to imagine a real-life perpetual motion machine, if that’s what you’re talking about. But hybrids and BEV’s do have regen braking to charge the battery up some with the braking we do every now and then anyway with our normal driving. So far at 80K miles I haven’t needed brake pads replaced, supposedly because our EV’s braking is mainly from regen (though we use a little brake pad braking when we slow down faster than regen brakes).

12 posted on 10/07/2025 9:36:18 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: enumerated
That was why I wondered if it was some kind of regional thing. Personally, I think they are butt-ugly that no paint job could fix (though I wonder if a "dazzle" camo might look good) and I concluded there are three types of customers for Cybertrucks:

  1. Electric car aficionados who would buy any kind of EV pickup truck

  2. People who would buy anything that Musk produces

  3. People who see a really butt-ugly vehicle, and conclude it has to be good at what it does, otherwise it would never sell

By the way, the "dazzle" camo paint job makes almost any kind of warship look more "war-like", maybe it would work on a cybertruck to make it look more, well..."truck-like".

There was a British warship a few years back that entered service, and I didn't find anything at all war-like or threatening about it, and I thought putting camo on it might make it more so, and here is the before:

And here is the after:

It does make it seem more war-like and capable!

13 posted on 10/07/2025 9:40:03 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Red Badger

“Spinning components? Fan or turbine?”

Maybe a Tesla airplane!


14 posted on 10/07/2025 9:46:31 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: sjmjax

Or a drone!...........


15 posted on 10/07/2025 9:51:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Tell It Right

“It’s hard to imagine a real-life perpetual motion machine”

I was thinking of a Tesla version of a Prius. Or Chevrolet Bolt.


16 posted on 10/07/2025 10:06:44 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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To: rlmorel

I agree the cyber trucks are ugly - but I’m older - when I see a 1940’s pickup truck in a movie I get tears in my eyes they’re so beautiful. And the further back you go the cooler they are.

I can’t understand why they keep changing car designs to be worse and worse. Well, that’s not true - I know why - it’s the $$$. They can’t afford to make things the way they used to make them.. but I don’t understand why people get convinced it’s an improvement when it’s not. I guess most people are easy to gaslight.

Once in a while a car company will show a slide show of their cars through the decades - an d the message is “look how far we’ve come” - but I think it’s a bad idea because it literally shows them getting less and less beautiful and cheaper materials.

But I guess younger people don’t see it the same way.


17 posted on 10/07/2025 10:07:47 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Red Badger
The best one I’ve seen is done as a ‘woody’.

This it?


18 posted on 10/07/2025 11:18:14 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

That looks just like it!.............


19 posted on 10/07/2025 11:31:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

WHERE ARE THE THOUSANDS OF CHARGERS BIDEN & BUTTIGEIG PROMISED????


20 posted on 10/07/2025 2:32:27 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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