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The “catch” marks SpaceX’s first successful touchdown of Starship’s booster back at its launch site in South Texas.

Starship launched about 25 minutes later than planned, at about 8:25AM ET, as SpaceX needed to clear its range of boats.

You can catch the livestream on SpaceX’s website, its X account, or the X TV app.

With Enel X Way USA shutting down, Juicebox owners were expecting to lose their connectivity features. But now the company says its working with a financial services company to auction off its software management assets, and customers will be transferred to the winner. In other words, the Juicebox app may live on.

Shout-out to Krugler in the comment section.

Interestingly, the UX seems to prioritize video streaming over any kind of trip visualization. Tesla seems to think people would rather watch movies than be assured their driverless car can see other cars and pedestrians. (They’re probably right, too.)

Ride share drivers in New York are guaranteed a minimum wage — but Uber and Lyft gamed the law by locking drivers out of the app, making it impossible for them to earn more, a Bloomberg investigation found.

Bloomberg collected more than 7,000 screenshots of lockouts and estimated how much the companies could save using the lockout tactic.

Tesla shares are trading down as much as six percent premarket, a few hours after digesting the Cybercabs and ruBOvehns.

Check out our video highlighting the most important parts.

Why didn’t Tesla call it the Cybervan?

It’s wearing a cowboy hat, for some reason.

Lots to parse. A few surprises. But as we’ve said before, the robotaxis are operating in a highly controlled setting and none of this is guaranteed to launch when Musk predicts it will. So stay tuned.

They’re doing the robot. What else?

The bots will be mingling with guests at the event, Musk says, who implores his guests to “be nice” to the robots.

Elon is putting the emphasis on the “bo” in robovan, so I wasn’t quite sure what he was saying at first. But yeah, it’s obviously not a conventional looking van.

The robotaxi will charge wirelessly through an inductive charger, Musk says. Tesla has long teased wireless charging for its EVs.

This is becoming a running theme with Musk: the idea that the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles could be used like Amazon’s cloud service business. Of course, it’s not that easy.

Elon says he plans on starting fully autonomous Model 3 and Model Y trips in Texas and California “next year.” Cybercab won’t go into production until “2026... before 2027.”

Cheers as Musk says the cost will be “below $30,000.” Take that with a huge grain of salt.

Elon selling autonomous cars as a time saver, which is a very familiar argument for anyone who has been paying attention to the AV industry.

Elon gets in. It’s driving him through the film lot. There are 20 of them on the lot, and another 30 driverless Model Ys.

Don’t do Hayao Miyazaki like this.

That’s what my wife just asked me about this event, which was supposed to begin FIFTY ONE MINUTES AGO.

(The answer is no, it hasn’t.)

Elon is tweeting about Howard Stern and NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Meanwhile, we’re 45 minutes past the start time.