Yesterday I took my first unsupervised Robotaxi in 3 months and the car got stuck in an infinite loop at pickup It looped two times and failed to pull over at the original pin, looped again and failed on the auto adjusted pin, then it adjusted to another pin and failed to pull over again. After looping there it adjusted again to another pin even further away and finally pulled over. I waited for 20 minutes watching it circle around the block. I think this might be a new worst pickup in an AV for me, certainly not a great customer experience Other thoughts from my rides yesterday/today: - availability has been great, 15 mins or less every time I've opened the app - super quiet and smooth, no AV is even close - nothing beats the Tesla infotainment experience: amazing audio quality, very responsive, and fully featured media apps - almost never can edit destination (even minor pin edits next to each other): the same error message about end of vehicle service. the odd thing is when I cancel and rebook at corrected pin I get matched to the same car - lot of other random papercuts: one car I was logged out of my profile on both trips, another the audio seemed to be directed toward the rear, one where eta to pickup stalled because car was stuck in apartment complex dead end I think my takeaway is the same as it was three months ago. Robotaxi has the highest highs and the lowest lows of AVs. The floor has definitely risen though (the service is actually usable now), and excited to see things continue to move in a positive direction

🥊 Lightweight Bout: Mateusz Gamrot vs Quillan Salkilld 🇵🇱 Mateusz Gamrot (26-4) 📍 American Top Team 📏 5'10" | Age: 35 🗓️ Last: Win vs Esteban Ribovics (Submission, Apr 2026) 🧨 8 KO/TKO, 6 SUB, 12 DEC 📊 Combat Edge ELO: 1,828 (Great, #5# LW) Former title challenger, elite wrestling and a granite base. At 35 his path is to drag Salkilld into deep water and grind. 🇦🇺 Quillan Salkilld (12-1) 📍 Luistro Combat Academy 📏 6'0" | Age: 26 🗓️ Last: Win vs Beneil Dariush (TKO, May 2026) 🧨 5 KO/TKO, 4 SUB, 3 DEC 📊 Combat Edge ELO: 1,760 (Great, #15# LW) 12-1, a perfect 5-0 in the UFC, fresh off a one-round starching of Beneil Dariush. Fast hands and real pop. 📈 The Combat Edge read: model gives Salkilld 71% — even stronger than the market's ~60% (-150). ELO alone actually leans Gamrot (60%); the model sees the fight tilting to the 26-year-old. Full breakdown + prediction 👇

GOOD NEWS 🎨 Tesla has officially been granted a design patent (US D1,138,869 S) covering the distinctive exterior body of its Robovan concept. Filed back in October 2024 and officially issued on August 4, 2026, the filing credits Tesla Chief Designer @woodhaus2 and his team (Julien Bilodeau, Ian Kettle, and Joseph Robinson) with shaping the vehicle's unique look. A closer look at the patent illustrations reveals several striking design choices that shape Tesla’s futuristic mass-transit vision: 🚌 Mobile architectural volume: Rather than following conventional van proportions, the Robovan resembles an autonomous tram or a moving lounge. The exterior reads as a single, uninterrupted capsule optimized for passenger comfort. 🚂 Art Deco streamliner influence: With rounded corners, sweeping horizontal bands, and fully enclosed wheels, the aesthetic pulls heavily from Art Deco streamliner trains and buses—reinterpreted through a minimalist science-fiction lens. 🤖 Symmetrical, "faceless" profile: There is no conventional grille, hood, side mirrors, or driver cockpit. The distinction between the front and rear ends is so subtly muted that the vehicle visually communicates full autonomy at first glance. 🛸 Hovercraft silhouette: By concealing the wheels and undercarriage deep within the lower body panels, the vehicle visually hovers above the road rather than resting on four exposed tires. 🕶️ Wraparound glass envelope: A dark, continuous glass beltway wraps around the upper cabin. The curved termination points break up the sheer mass of the vehicle, making the high-capacity volume look surprisingly sleek. 💡 Horizontal stratification: Multiple parallel strakes run along the waist and lower sill. While patent line art doesn't specify materials, these bands are ideal locations for production lighting strips, signal indicators, or aerodynamic trim. 📦 Space-maximized packaging: Near-vertical front and rear end caps combined with full-width, full-height cabin walls maximize every square inch of usable interior space—making it equally suited for high-density ride-pooling or autonomous cargo logistics. ⚡ A distinct design language: Unlike the sharp, planar, stainless-steel geometry of the Cybertruck, the Robovan relies entirely on soft radii and continuous curvature, carving out a distinct "retro-futuristic public transit" aesthetic within Tesla's portfolio. Beyond the aesthetic novelty, this filing confirms that Tesla is actively locking down the intellectual property for its high-capacity autonomous fleet.

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Dana White gives his first reaction to the PFL x MVP merger. 👀🗣️ “Let’s take two organisations that don’t sell tickets and nobody watches, and let’s merge them together and make a bigger company that doesn’t sell tickets and nobody watches.” 😬 (via @TheMacLife)