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Check out the link in the show notes. Now we'll start with news of Tesla's Project Halo program, adding a black box on Robo Taxi Duty.

I'd said recently that visually, from what I was watching last Sunday, the Robo Taxi launch for Tesla seemed to be using model-wise that were otherwise very similar to what you and I would buy.

Obviously, they're not because we know that there are people back to what you and I would buy. Obviously, they're not,

because we know that there are people back at what they call the War Room with all the big screens

and the little steering wheel, like they're playing some sort of gaming simulator on a Xbox,

are driving them if they get in trouble. Well, Project Halo, the internal Tesla program,

to modify vehicles for robotaxies,

we can now confirm as retrofitting vehicles for upcoming Robotaxi tests.

The cars stand out from typical Model Y is because of a large box on the rear window.

So this is a bit like, you know, on the front window where you've got the rearview mirror,

often a little bit of black plastic all around that,

and then the other side of it has lots of cameras and sensors and windscreen and wiper rain sensors and stuff.

It's like that, but on the rear window, well, that's okay.

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