Robotaxi Expansion(s)

Yesterday, just 22 days since the initial launch, Tesla Robotaxi network expanded roughly to double the area.1

I post this because, in a world full of noise, this is a clear SIGNAL – the second data point validating our thesis that Tesla is developing a general autonomous vehicle solution through AI. Me thinks this data is to be frequently updated.

UPDATE(s):

Robotaxi Service Area (km2)

Service area is geo-fenced and operational for paying public to use trough the Tesla Robotaxi app.

2026 Aug 31, Austin expansion – 745 km² (+113) 2
2026 Aug 29, Dallas expansion – 120 km² (+40)
2026 Jul 21, Orlando and Tampa launch – 60km² each 3
2026 Jul 03, Miami launch – 25km²4
2026 Apr 18, Dallas launch – 80km² and Houston launch – 65km²
2025 Oct 28, Austin expansion –637 km² (+145)
2025 Sep 15, Bay Area launch – 1,429 km²
2025 Sep 04, Austin expansion + Public App – 492 km² (+49)
2025 Aug 26, Austin expansion – 443 km² (+223)5
2025 Aug 03, Austin expansion – 220 km² (+111)
2025 Jul 14, Austin expansion – 109 km² (+62)
2025 Jun 22, service inception in Austin – 47 km²

Also I’m keeping track of other relevant service milestones:

2026 Set 05, Cybercab rides available to the general public in Austin TX6

2026 Jul 21, Service launched in Orlando FL and Tampa FL (unsupervised)

2026 Jul 03, Service launched in Miami FL (unsupervised)

2026 Apr 24, Android app launched

2026 Apr 18, Service launched in Dallas and in Houston TX (unsupervised)

2026 Mar 31, Unsupervised geo fence expansion to 635 km² (slighty smaller than supervised)

2026 Feb 17, First Cybercab production unit completed

2026 Jan 23, Unsupervised public rides launched (Austin, unsupervised limited to the original 47 km² geo fence and limited number of cars).

2025 Dec 14, First robotaxi spotted in public streets without safety monitor

2025 Nov 18, Service opened up for general public. No waiting list. Download the app and ride

2025 Sep 04, Robotaxi App available for general public (iOS only, waiting list to use the service)

2025 Jun 22, Service inception (47 km², iOS only, invite only)

NOISE:

FUNNY NOISE:

  1. https://x.com/i/grok/share/VbUvDXrtGcCytxy932yoAixYU ↩︎
  2. https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/4632/tesla-expands-robotaxi-geofences-in-dallas-and-austin ↩︎
  3. https://x.com/robotaxi/status/2079551968725303500 ↩︎
  4. https://x.com/robotaxi/status/2073030246161367153 ↩︎
  5. https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/3062/tesla-expands-robotaxi-service-area-again-reclaims-top-spot-over-waymo ↩︎
  6. https://x.com/robotaxi/status/2095922540883378321 ↩︎

The incredible power of (conscious) Dance

First I will give you the very simple recipe:

1 – Rhythm music for 30 minutes at least, 1 hour or more recommended.
2 – Total silence besides the music, no talking, no distractions (no drinking, no smoking, no interaction with friends or other people besides movement). NO PHONES.
3 – Focus on the music. Focus on the rhythm. Move freely and let the music guide you.
4 – Dance bare foot (optional) and with other souls around you doing the same (highly recommended).
5 – Again NO F TALKING. God is in the movement.

Many moons ago, maybe fate, maybe serendipity, who knows? I discovered this by complete accident. I can tell you that self discovery night passed like a bullet train and felt like pure bliss. And this simple experience had a profound spiritual positive effect on me. Of happiness, of connection, of grounding.

This conscious dance thing is so simple, yet most people will carry on with life without ever actually trying it. Some may say: “but I go out many times to bars / discos/ parties !” Sure, but every single time you get distracted, with interruptions, to grab a drink, to talk with friends (or strangers), to look at your phone, to smoke, by some strangers fainted conversations, by whatever.

So, my invitation is just to try it out, for sure it will be beneficial to your well being. And if you are in a stressed out, unhappy or depressed state, then please I urge you a deep call to action, because this stuff, basic as it seems, lies within an incredible power, the power of healing. And in this time of age of anti-depressants consumption almost tripling in the last 20 years12, maybe, you know just maybe, the answer is not more pills and psychologists..

Search for conscious dance online (google, instagram, facebook) and for sure you will find groups around you. Some more guided, some less guided, some more party mood, some more formal class mood, but at the core all are following the same recipe above.

The same recipe followed since ancient times by generations of dancers from different cultures all around the world:

European Shamanism, Greek Anastenaria, Turkish Sufi whirling, Cuba Santeria, Brazilian Candomblé, Caribbean Shaktism, Moroccan Gnawa, India/Western Psytrance Raves, the San from the Kalahari desert of Namibia and Yoruba of Nigeria, California 5Rythms and Ecstatic Dance movement, the Hadra ritual danced by Moroccan women, Benin’s Fon, Korea Kut ritual etc, etc, etc….

Sign in, pick yourself up and go. In the worst case you loose a couple of hours and a bit of coin, in the best case it will change your life for the better.

  1. https://www.euronews.com/health/2023/09/09/europes-mental-health-crisis-in-data-which-country-uses-the-most-antidepressants ↩︎
  2. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/antidepressant-use-by-country ↩︎

Bypassing CG-NAT

Last week I dumped Vodafone Internet + TV bundle for a dirt cheap DIGI unlimited 5G data plan for my home. I have zero interest on TV… so it felt kind of dumb to be paying for something that I really don’t use or care.

Everything working fine except that I couldn’t access my cloud server from outside my home network… I traced the problem to DIGI using CG-NAT. Carrier Grade Network Address Translation is a technology that shares the same public IP address between multiple customers. The upside: it saves IPV4 addresses, the downside: it doesn’t allow for inbound connections.

CG-NAT blocks outside connections because many devices share one public internet address. The router managing this can’t tell which device an outside request is for, so it blocks them to keep things secure and organized.

A solution is to set up a reverse SSH tunnel. You establish a secure connection to an outside device with a public IP address that forwards internet requests through it to your CGNATed device via the encrypted tunnel.

Great news this software tunnel is very easy to set up. First check for port availability on the outside device. Let’s say you want to use port 8080. Check if the port is available

lsof -i :8080

or

netstat -tuln | grep 8080

make sure nothing is using the port you will assign to your service.

Set up ssh keys login with no password between your home network device and the outside device. You should be able to login like 

ssh outsidedevice

remember the -v option can be very helpful debugging ssh troubles. On the outside server adjust GatewayPorts in sshd configuration:

sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

GatewayPorts clientspecified

and restart the sshd service

sudo systemctl restart sshd

now actually dig the tunnel. From your home device connect to the outside server, replace 192.168.1.100 with your internal device IP and adjust the ports of your service and bind address..

ssh -R bind_address:8080:192.168.1.100:8080 outsideserver -v

For simplicity sake, probably you want the same port on both machines. But if for some reason you want different ports the syntax is:

ssh -R outside_ip:outside_port:inside_ip:inside_port outside -v

If for some reason you want to bind to all addresses available:

ssh -R '*:outside_port:inside_ip:inside_port' outside -v

Or simply change the GatewayPorts directive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to yes.

Now you should be able to access from anywhere via outside, lets say http://outside:8080 the service running inside your home network at lets say http://192.168.1.100:8080 bypassing CGNAT.

If your tunnel silently freezes up when data is transmitted trough it, please try lowering the MTU in the local network device. I was having this kind of problem and lowering the interface MTU from 1500 to 1400 solved it.

ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400

replace eth0 with your interface, and if needed to stabilize your ssh tunnel connection, don’t forget to update /etc/network/interfaces to make this change permanent across reboots.

UPDATE:
this MTU problem seems to be a Digi PT problem and not related to SSH tunneling, but it was manifesting itself hard on it.

At this point probably you are happy with the setup and want to auto magically connect the tunnel at startup and re-connect in case of unexpected tunnel closing. The tool for that is autossh. Install it:

sudo apt install autossh

test it manually first

autossh -M 0 -o "ServerAliveInterval 30" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -R 8081:192.168.1.100:8081 outsideserver -v

If all good make a systemd script to control it

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/autossh-tunnel.service

adjust according 

[Unit]
Description=AutoSSH tunnel to Outside Server
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=root
Environment="AUTOSSH_GATETIME=0"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/autossh -M 0 -o "ServerAliveInterval 30" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -NR 8080:192.168.1.100:8080 outside
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then reload the service daemon, enable your autossh tunnel service, start it, and confirm its status.

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable autossh-tunnel.service
sudo systemctl start autossh-tunnel.service
sudo systemctl status autossh-tunnel.service

Boom, there you go your home network service again accessible trough the internet.

Robotaxi launched in Austin Tx (and first autonomous delivery from factory to client)

This week was full of good news about Tesla autonomous driving efforts.

First we had the launch in Austin Texas of the Tesla robotaxi network. The service, as expected started as a limited beta, with a very small fleet, geofenced do Austin, invite only to a group of Tesla hardcore fans, and with a safety supervisor in the passenger seat.

More than words, take a couple of minutes to contemplate what we are talking about:

Remember this program is just the beginning, the safety supervisor will be removed and the geofence will expand over time. Great thing with tech it builds on itself, so this will only get better over time.

Polymarket a global betting platform gives right now a 67% probability of Tesla launching until the end of the year a fully driverless taxi service to the general public.

Second, and imho even more impressive, we had this week the first autonomous delivery of a Tesla from factory to a customer without anybody in the car. Yes, the damn car drove itself without a safety supervisor from the factory end of line to the customer house 30 minutes away. Again please take a couple of minutes and watch for yourself this modern time voodoo:

Full video to enjoy at normal 1x speed here.

As always it’s important to remember why you won’t see any of this reported on the main stream media, or maybe bluntly reported with a very negative spin. Global automakers spent $42.4 billion on advertising in 2022, yet Tesla spends zero.12

We are 3 and half years since my original post recommending Tesla and only 36% up, but now the cars can drive themselves.

  1. https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/opinion/automotive-ad-investment-remains-stuck-in-reverse-gear/en-gb/6123 ↩︎
  2. https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/automotive-industries-229055 ↩︎

Nikola Motors – Cashing Out

Things played out exactly as predicted. Massive dilution of the stock, and massive loss of value to stock holders, currently Nikola Motors has a market cap under one month of expenses. Bankruptcy is looming around the corner. Market is healing, this scam is almost over.

In nine months stock is down 98%, hope by shorting the stock, CFD, or options you made a nice profit. To avoid any liquidity or legal shenanigans I recommend exiting the trade now, before it goes belly up.

For all these years in the stock market, this one felt almost like a helicopter trowing bags of money down to whoever wanted to take it. It would be extremely hard for Nikola Motors to succeed at IPO, but it would take a fucking miracle for this shady company to turn around and go anywhere in the last months.

It actually surprises me how long the business survived, almost 5 years since IPO.

It makes sense to make a quick post mortem analysis of the trade. Starting with analysts ratings and price targets of stocks:

Images with current ratings and PTs taken from the Wall Street Journal

Please be very careful taking any advise from analysts, in my opinion best is to ignore them at all. Invest in businesses that you understand, do your own research and due diligence.

The media and the legal pump and dump. This will happen again, again, and again. It’s a pattern, and the script is more or less like this:

1 – An expanding hyped up bubbling sector, let it be the flower bulbs, railroads, dotcoms, EVs, DNA, crypto, AI or something else.
2 – Some shady company backed up by “a team of great investors”, business partners, banks, brokers, the media and marketing hype machine (including the so called financial analysts).
3 – Company is sold to the market as a future player or leader of the hyped sector. Media is buzzing.


4 – General public gets in the hype train, stock runs wild, big money out.
5 – Company tries to show some work, but the real focus will be press releases, announcements, validating deals (partnerships and so on). All this will avoid SEC and legal complications for big money.
6- Company burns trough cash without showing practical results. Concerning signs about the company may surface but will be promptly dismissed by the bag holders. It’s just another setback.
7 – There can be capital raises and offerings, but eventually company gets out of money, mostly retail investors are left holding the worthless bag.

Meanwhile big money, top executives, directors, media, marketing managers, analysts, bankers and brokers are far far away enjoying their hard earned scammed money.

Yet again, #1 rule of the game, do your own research.

UPDATE:

Bankrupt. Exactly as predicted. this scam of a business has filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Nikola has also filed a motion seeking authorization to pursue an auction and sale process under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.