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📝 Today’s Tesla News Summary
- Tesla Semi impresses on Grapevine grade — A fleet operator hauling a full trailer over the steep Grapevine pass called the Semi performance “absolutely amazing,” adding to the truck’s growing real-world credibility.
- Tesla patents camera wiper for self-driving — A new patent reveals a tiny automatic wiper for road-facing cameras. It underscores Tesla’s hardware precision for autonomy, though existing FSD owners note their cameras still lack such coverage.
- FSD v14 sparks complacency warnings — Early testers of Tesla’s FSD v14 say the system is so smooth it is making drivers dangerously over-reliant. Safety analysts are watching the complacency risk as the software improves.
- Fraud lawsuit first hearing in China — Ten Chinese FSD owners had their first court hearing in a fraud case seeking 583 thousand dollars, alleging Tesla misled them about self-driving capabilities. The outcome could set a precedent in the world’s largest EV market.
- SpaceX-Tesla merger could trigger $1T Musk pay package — Financial analysts note a hypothetical SpaceX-Tesla merger could automatically trigger an enormous new compensation package for Elon Musk under his existing performance plan.
Stock: TSLA closed at $433.59