Radar Autonomy

Kansas passed SB 313 in 2022 specifically authorizing driverless vehicle operations. One detail most people miss: local governments are preempted from adding their own AV rules. Tesla doesn't have to negotiate city by city. Compare that to California where CPUC and individual cities layer permits on top of state law.

Cybercab spotted testing in Kansas for the first time, specifically in Wichita. With Tesla having recently produced a lot more engineering/validation Cybercabs, expect to see Cybercabs pop up in a lot of new areas.

@CernBasher How would waymo and zoox on Uber platform not compete?

@teslaownersSV Small nuance: RDW's statement is specifically about the driver monitoring, not FSD's driving capability. The strict attention enforcement is what they're calling safer than other systems. Still a big deal, just a narrower claim than the headline reads.

RDW (Dutch Road Authority) JUST DECLARED TESLA FSD SUPERVISED SAFER THAN OTHER DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS After more than a year and a half of rigorous testing on both their test track and real public roads, the RDW has officially granted Tesla’s FSD Supervised a type approval in the Netherlands. The most powerful line from their official statement: “Due to the continuous strict monitoring of the driver in the vehicle, the system is safer than other driver assistance systems.”

Small but important detail: RDW classified this as a Level 2 driver assist system, not autonomous driving. Approval is Netherlands-only for now. EU-wide rollout requires a separate vote across all 27 member states that hasn't started yet. BMW and Ford already hold similar European approvals.

JUST IN: Netherlands approves Tesla’s Full Self-Driving, the first European country to do so.

@EvasTeslaSPlaid @JoeTegtmeyer We need to see thousands to compete with Waymo

Wow! 32 Tesla Cybercabs spotted today at Giga Texas! Thank you @JoeTegtmeyer

🚨 BREAKING: Waymo’s new Ojai robotaxi is now beginning to appear on the Waymo app. Real rides are starting soon. Waymo is driving the cost curve down hard while keeping full LIDAR + 6th-gen hardware. If they keep this up, it could prove premium LIDAR is worth it for safer, higher-utilization robotaxis, letting them dominate the mass-scale era coming soon. Time will tell… What do you think? LIDAR winning or Tesla's cheaper pure vision still takes the crown?

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla The quiz exists because EU type approval under UN R-171 sets a far higher bar than US self-certification. RDW tested FSD Supervised for 18 months on track and public roads before approving it. Tesla ships FSD to millions of US drivers with zero pre-market review.

NEWS: Tesla will require all @Tesla owners in the Netherlands who activate FSD (Supervised) for the first time to complete a short quiz (video below), ensuring they understand how it works. Here's a new video from Tesla on how FSD (Supervised) will work in the Netherlands:

@TechGeekAnthony This is huge news. What is the price point of these cars @grok

The Waymo Ojai now shows up on the Waymo app

@TeslaNewswire Very interesting. I wonder if they will move into Kansas soon.

Tesla Cybercab spotted testing in Wichita, Kansas, for the first time!

@JoNationLive Charging will be such an important aspect of mass AV deployment. Especially in rural areas.

Tesla superchargers are so reliable and make owning an EV an amazing experience! I never would have switched if it weren’t for the Tesla supercharging network!

@TheCaptainEli @JoNationLive FSD is a game-changer. It will revolutionize the world.

A very simple fact about FSD: No road rage, no need to constantly watch signs — you just sit back and enjoy a safer ride than manual driving. @JoNationLive and I are being driven by the software from Texas to Missouri. 13 hours of supervising.

@gailalfaratx Is unsupervised rolling out where you live?

I am waiting for Robotaxi and I’m really really hoping that it might be unsupervised. It would be my first one.

@niccruzpatane FSD will explode Tesla stock in the coming wave of AV deployment. The question is can Waymo scale faster?

My dad sent me this $TSLA market buy randomly on Thursday lol. He follows a little on 𝕏 but is mostly influenced by experiencing Tesla products for some time now, including FSD. He went from being nervous during the early FSD days to trusting it completely with V14. Real-life experiences drove his confidence in investing in Tesla over the years. Many Tesla owners end up investing in $TSLA not long after owning their first one. The products speak for themselves.

@RevTK88 @teslaeurope 3-5 years unless fed policy

@RadarAutonomy @teslaeurope They could, but realistically, each member state will ru ntheir own additional reviews whcih will take between 5 and 25 years.

De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly!  Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from residential roads to city streets & highways No other vehicle can do this.  We're excited to bring FSD Supervised to more European countries soon

@DavidLund6 we agree and are tracking and forecasting just that

@RadarAutonomy The only question that matters is who gets to about 500K unsupervised vehicles first.

Tesla has 561 robotaxi vehicles across 2 cities. Only 10 are unsupervised. Waymo is running 3,000+ fully driverless across 11 cities. Fleet size gets the headlines. The supervised-to-unsupervised ratio is what actually determines commercial viability.

@SawyerMerritt Buried lede: Waymo says city officials asked for this data. AVs becoming municipal infrastructure partners, not just ride-hail competitors. The states with the lightest regulatory touch are seeing this play out first.

NEWS: Waymo and Waze have announced a partnership to help cities detect and repair potholes faster by providing data from their autonomous fleet. The pilot will launch in these cities first: • San Francisco Bay Area • Los Angeles • Phoenix • Austin • Atlanta "The pilot program uses Waymo’s perception and physical feedback systems to detect and provide up-to-date information on potholes where Waymo operates. The data will be available to cities and state Departments of Transportation through the free-to-use Waze for Cities platform alongside user-reported pothole information, giving officials an additional view of surface street and highway conditions that enables them to more efficiently and effectively fill potholes. The data will also be visible to Waze users in the cities where Waymo operates, keeping road users safe by alerting them as they approach a pothole. Like other on-road features reportable in the Waze app, users will be able to verify the Waymo-identified potholes, increasing the data’s accuracy. Waymo has already identified approximately 500 potholes. Over time, we’ll expand this partnership to more cities we serve, including those with winter weather and harsh freeze-thaw cycles that exacerbate the pothole problem."

@Waymo @waze The infrastructure upside nobody talks about: AV fleets generating free road-condition data for cities, entirely voluntary. This model works because states like AZ and TX keep the regulatory framework performance-based instead of prescriptive.

More data, better roads. 🤝 We're partnering with @Waze to help cities detect and repair potholes faster by providing data from our autonomous fleet alongside community reports. By giving cities a clearer picture of road conditions, we can help make streets safer for everyone. Learn more: waymo.com/blog/2026/04/p…

CA SB 1246 advanced out of the Senate Transportation Committee (8-3) and has been re-referred to Rules. If enacted, it would require a 1:3 technician-to-robotaxi ratio, 10-minute on-site response, and California driver's licenses for all remote operators. Arizona and Florida have zero staffing rules. Operators scale on safety performance alone. California is regulating headcount. Arizona and Florida are regulating results.

@niccruzpatane SB 1246 locks California into a 1:3 technician-to-robotaxi ratio with a 10-minute response mandate. Arizona and Florida let operators scale on demonstrated safety data instead of fixed headcounts.

A new California State Bill was prompted by a multi-day power outage in San Francisco that left Waymo vehicles immobilized. The new four main requirements for robotaxi vehicle companies operating in California include: • Anyone overseeing or responding to vehicles must be U.S.-based with a valid California driver’s license. • Companies must employ autonomous vehicle technicians at a minimum 3-to-1 ratio (one technician per three self-driving cars), on call with a maximum 10-minute response time. • Emergency service workers (firefighters, police) would gain the ability to manually operate the vehicles in crises. • Companies must report data to the DMV on technicians, incidents, emergency moves, etc. The bill was advanced out of California’s state Senate transportation committee, where it passed 7-2. It still needs to clear the Appropriations Committee and then a full Senate floor vote to become law.

@zoox Zoox designed the entire vehicle around autonomy instead of bolting sensors onto an existing chassis. That earned the first NHTSA demonstration exemption for a U.S.-built AV last August. The commercial FMVSS exemption petition comment period closes today.

Zoox isn’t a modified car. It’s a purpose-built robotaxi, designed from the ground up for autonomy. That distinction matters. By designing the vehicle for autonomy, perception became foundational, not an afterthought. Learn more: zoox.com/journal/zoox-i…