Halloween Mode now rolling out 🎃 This spooky update turns your Tesla into a haunted house on wheels – Ghost costume on your car's avatar – Enable Trick or Treat to play spooky sounds & flicker the lights when visitors approach – New haunting light show, wraps & lock sound – A rather chilling Photobooth – Frighten people remotely by speaking through the app...your car will say it in a voice of its own Side effects may include neighborhood notoriety

How about the robot is looking down while assembling a Swiss watch with one hand and then, without looking up, catches an oblique 100mph baseball with the other hand? I also like the idea of juggling chainsaws on fire while riding a unicycle.

Tesla installs @Starlink terminals at Superchargers so customer cars can stream videos even if the cellular coverage is limited. Tesla also uses them for connection to the stations themselves. Convergence between @Tesla and @SpaceX is everywhere.

Cyber Beast Field Notes #6: the on-board air system (this honestly should've been #2) The ARB compressor in the frunk feeds back to the bed. One leg goes to a manual shutoff and a quick disconnect, so I can air up mattresses, blow things off, or hook up my old four-hose kit if the AIR CTI ever goes down. A stainless reservoir tank, mounted on my @UranderOfficial bed rack, adds capacity so the compressor isn't working as hard. The other leg runs through a check valve and an isolation valve for the AIR CTI, then air filtration and water separation with an auto dump, then the pressure regulator that feeds the AIR CTI solenoids from Field Notes #3. @ARB4x4 @cybertruck aircti.com

NASA and @SpaceX have just shared new images of "Cabin 1" inside Starship for future astronaut missions. It's built in Starfactory at Starbase, Texas. They also shared some new renderings of Artemis III docking adapter:

Cyber Beast Field Notes #5: where the line meets the wheel The AIR CTI rotator mounting plate and extended lug nuts were custom made in Australia from my wheel geometry. They fit my @MartianWheels beadlocks perfectly on the first try. The 6mm steel-reinforced airline comes off the articulating mount into the rotator. From there it runs through a tire isolation valve and a quick disconnect to the valve stem. There's a Schrader valve on the rotator too, as a backup. Two isolation valves per wheel, one in the articulating mount and one on the wheel. If the rotator seal ever leaks, the tire stays full. Pulling a wheel is easy. Close both valves, push-lock release the 6mm line, remove the two rotator bolts, then the six lugs. Next up, the last one, Field Notes #6: the in-bed air system. ARB, a 5 gallon reservoir, a camp-air quick disconnect, and the drain, check valve, filter/water separator, regulator and manifolds that feed it all 👇 aircti.com

Cyber Beast Field Notes #4: articulating line mounts One big challenge installing this system on my Cybertruck is the long suspension travel (six factory height settings on the air suspension, not to mention all four wheels turn). Air has to get from the body to a wheel that moves (a lot). So I built spring-loaded mounts that swing with the suspension at the off-road extremes, instead of letting the line pull tight or pinch, or leaving so much slack at the lower settings that it sticks way out and becomes a hazard. How it works: The brackets were drawn in SolidWorks and tested there in simulation, then laser cut, bent on a press brake and powder coated. All 14 gauge stainless. A fixed body bracket mounts in the wheel well, and a swing arm hangs off it on a pivot. Two return springs run between tabs on the bracket and the arm, so the arm opens as the suspension rises and pulls back as it drops down (there's two springs just for redundancy, in case one breaks). The pivot uses tiny 4-40 shoulder bolts on purpose. If the tire throws up something big, the mount breaks away here (at its weakest point) instead of the bracket being ripped off the mount bolts and damaging the truck. The air line passes through the arm in a panel grommet so it can't chafe. I started with orange silicone ones, but they were too soft, so I swapped to firmer black Buna-N (you'll see them in the video). To mount it, I heated a test part's tab and melted a slot through Tesla's fender flare carrier and wheel liner, then trimmed it clean. The bracket tab comes up from below and bolts in with the factory M6 x 24 carrier bolts. The only permanent mods are that slot and a 6 mm hole through the wheel liner where the 6 mm air tube enters each wheel arch. It's all plastic, so if the system ever comes off, a little black silicone seals it and nothing shows once it's reassembled. See video: Entry to Extract, watch it open up. Springs or a big, fixed loop, what would you do? Next up, Field Notes #5: where the line meets the wheel. Custom extended lugs and a rotator plate built in Australia for my exact wheels, a perfect fit on first try on my @MartianWheels beadlock rims. Plus, the two-valve setup that keeps a tire full even if the rotator seal leaks. aircti.com

Cyber Beast Field Notes #3: Solenoids in the sail panel Two AIR CTI control blocks, with two air control solenoids each. The blocks are mounted back-to-back on opposite sides of the same custom 11-gauge aluminum bracket that I fabricated. This black powder-coated bracket assembly is then mounted up inside the left rear sail panel. It bolts right up to two existing factory 6mm studs that I found. It's secured to them with stainless steel nylon lock nuts (so it can't vibrate off). No new holes, no changes to the truck for its install. The 8mm supply airline comes in from my installed ARB onboard air system to a stainless Y. One side feeds the front block, one the rear. Blue lines go to the front tires, orange to the rear, and 6mm lines run out to each tire corner location. Exhaust ports have mufflers, so when it airs down you just hear a soft hiss. Two 4mm lines carry tire pressure back to the frunk-mounted AIR CTI module, which reads it and fires the solenoids. Why there? Dry, not dusty, so hopefully longer solenoid life. It's also completely hidden and out of the way. Normal AIR CTI truck and SUV installations would typically mount these control blocks up under the front hood, in the engine compartment. That's not really an option with an EV 😂. The sail panel can be accessed in about five minutes of disassembly time (if/when I do need to get to them again). Next: custom articulating line mounts at each wheel, built for the CT's extreme suspension travel 👇 @ARB4x4 aircti.com

Ferrari's boss just gave Tesla's new Roadster a perfect score ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Benedetto Vigna, the chief executive of Ferrari, rated the Roadster reveal 10 out of 10 for technology and 10 out of 10 for presentation. Speaking Tuesday at an Italian auto industry conference, he had a simple message for Elon Musk as a European: thank you for showing that an old industry can still innovate and take risks. "It certainly shows that also in the automotive world there's still a lot to be done. We have to keep dreaming," Vigna said. "As a European, thank you for showing us how that, even in an old world, you can still innovate and dare." Vigna is the head of the most famous sports car brand on Earth, a direct rival, publicly praising Tesla. He is basically admitting the whole industry needs this kind of bold bet.