"The Cult Of Elon" - Tesla Stock EXPLODES As Musk's Robotaxis TAKE OVER Streets

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Tesla hits a 2025 high as Elon Musk launches real-world robo-taxi tests in Austin. Pat, Tom, and Pomp break down why legacy automakers are backing off, why Wall Street is finally treating Tesla like an AI company, and how Elon’s vision keeps driving the stock.

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0:00.0	All this stuff going on, Tesla's had a closing at 2025 high after Musk confirms driverless robotaxy tests underway in Austin.
0:10.1	Rob, do you have a video of that of the Robotaxy test?
0:13.0	I think it's good for us to see this year.
0:16.0	Tom, so what is the story with this robot taxi causing Tesla?
0:19.9	Is this it?
0:20.6	Oh, let's take a look at this.
0:22.8	Amazing. Is that real rap or is that a AI?
0:28.7	No, this is real. That's actually happening. Yeah. Okay. So Robotaxy in Austin causing Tesla stock to go up? Is it just that? Is it the additional robots
0:40.1	they're talking about? What else is it that's causing Tesla to have record-breaking numbers in
0:45.0	2025 with their stock prices? I think the stock price is going up because two major manufacturers
0:49.8	just announced that they were going to be competing less with Tesla, number one. And number two, Tesla is funny.
0:57.2	This announcement comes after Waymo runs into a poor guy in Arizona.
1:03.0	After one of them ran into a construction site and got stuck in wet cement, that's a true story, in San Francisco.
1:10.2	The driverless taxi runs through cones and gets stuck in wet cement. That's a true story in San Francisco. The driverless taxi runs through cones and gets stuck in wet cement in a construction zone.
1:16.7	That's a true story?
1:17.4	It's a true story.
1:18.2	Rob will find it.
1:19.3	It's actually very, very, I think it was what was not funny is I think it hit a woman, then it drove into a construction site, then it drove into wet cement.
1:28.1	And so all of those stories of the starting of driverless taxi.
1:31.5	It's not a funny story, Tom. You're laughing like it's a funny story.
1:34.3	There it is. There it is. Forbes.
1:37.9	Cruise, Robotaxi drives into wet concrete.
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