Tesla’s Robotaxi fleet has officially surpassed 5 million miles driven without human supervision. - The fleet has reached 5,041,947 unsupervised miles, according to the latest update. - That’s up from 4 million miles in late October and 3.1 million in mid-October. - Autonomous operations are expanding across multiple U.S. markets, including Austin, Dallas, and Houston. - The growing mileage is generating more real-world driving data as Tesla expands its Robotaxi service. Tesla is accelerating its push toward autonomous transportation, turning millions of driverless miles into valuable real-world experience.

JUST IN: Tesla Robotaxi has now passed 5 million fully autonomous miles, per Tesla's live counter. Zero Robotaxi airbag deployments and zero pedestrians or cyclists hit in Tesla's safety report data (Jan 22 to Oct 18). Source:

Elon Musk at Stanford in 2015, looking back at the year both of his companies almost died. He said that when he started SpaceX and Tesla, he thought they were maybe 10% likely to succeed. By 2008 SpaceX was zero for three on Falcon 1, the Great Recession hit, and Tesla's financing round fell apart. The fourth launch, the last one they had money for, reached orbit in September 2008. The Tesla round closed on Christmas Eve 2008, "last hour of the last day that it was possible." Steve Jurvetson, on stage with him: "the most extraordinary act of entrepreneurial zeal and commitment I've ever seen." Video: Stanford eCorner

Elon says the most common mistake smart engineers make is optimizing something that should not exist. "First, make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It does not matter who gave them to you. It's particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough." "Then try very hard to delete the part or process. This is actually very important. If you're not occasionally adding things back in, you're not deleting enough." "And then only the third step is simplify or optimize... Possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize the thing that should not exist." He said this at Starbase in 2021, standing next to Starship hardware. Flight 15 is targeting Friday.

A Marine Corps veteran in rural Oklahoma uses Starlink for his doctor's appointments, so he no longer drives an hour each way into town. He is 100% disabled through the VA. His wife is earning a nursing degree online on the same connection, and it stayed up through tornado warnings. Happy Veterans Day to everyone who served.

Barbara Corcoran on Elon Musk: "Any great leader has a strong opinion and isn't so smooth on the edges and drives it home. But that's what you want when you want to reinvent a category, and that's what he has done."

Starship's heat shield, then vs now. "The toughest remaining problem is a reusable orbital heat shield." @elonmusk Flight 14 reentered from orbit. Flight 15 brings curved tiles, more tile retention and the first attempt to catch the Ship.