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Tesla Model X windshield connects driver with nature & tech like never before
Tesla’s Model X “Big Sky” windshield continues to grab media and consumer attention due to its unique design and gorgeous aesthetics. But beyond having world-class engineering, Model X’s panoramic windshield provides an intimate experience allowing driver and passengers to intersect with nature like never-before-seen.
A new video, filmed largely in Yosemite National Park, provides the viewer with a first person perspective on what it’s like to ride inside a Tesla Model X. The huge windshield, boasting 31-square-feet (2.9-square-meters) of glass, provides an unparalleled view of the surroundings. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called this a “helicopter cockpit-like riding experience.” As the Model X reaches Yosemite park’s outer gates, images of puffy clouds against a deep blue sky balance wide angle shots of the Model X maneuvering carefully through traffic.
We’re left with an impression of being one with our surroundings while the vehicle continues to provide passenger comfort in the form of individually heated seats and navigation data displayed on an enormous 17″ center touchscreen.
Visibility benefits of Model X’s enormous windshield
The Model X panoramic windshield brings the world inside. Each person riding within the all-electric crossover SUV is given an enhanced ability to see around the car, accentuating the safety of all. The video reveals shots from both the driver’s and passengers’ points of view. Extending all the way above the driver and front passenger seats back to the rear seat, the windshield reinforces improved visibility for all the Model X’ occupants, regardless of their seating arrangement within the vehicle.
The larger windshield also seems to give the driver a better sense of surrounding and oncoming traffic, as several video scenes display fast-moving vehicles zooming down and around mountainsides, or over-sized campers crawling up elevation changes. In each, the Model X, due to its windshield with one massive piece of glass, empowers the driver to fuller perspectives of the road, other vehicles, and obstacles.
Plane-spotting for the kids has never been more fun in the Model X.
The Tesla Model X windshield is ultraviolet and infrared-blocking; it also includes rain-sensing, adjustable-speed windshield wipers. “The Model X has the largest all-glass panoramic windshield in production, providing an unparalleled view of the stars and the sky above,” according to a statement from the company. “Optimized solar tinting and obstruction-free view creates unlimited visibility for the driver and all passengers.”
Great for road trips
The video setting of Yosemite symbolizes the essential American yearning to be a rugged individualist. The Model X windshield reveals tall firs that foreground sheer mountain cliffs and rugged terrain. It’s a truly separate experience from driving in any other vehicle. We peer deeply ahead into a red-lit tunnel carved into a mountain, move to overhead shots of overhanging branches, and ease back down to road level two-lane traffic.
The video makes us ask, What better way is there to strive toward a better lifestyle than through the experience of owning a Model X? As the landscape moves by the windshield, the fluidity of the visual experience which is gained from the extensive windshield area invites ease of long distance travel. That, of course, is in addition to the car’s quiet, luxury features, and comfort.
Reaffirms our green philosophy
We as viewers feel like we’re part of something bigger than ourselves. We’re part of a more sustainable and secure world, which makes us all safer and healthier. If we hadn’t before, we come to understand how Tesla has designed the Model X with its panoramic windshield in a way that combines style, acceleration, and handling with advanced technologies. We’re part of a viable alternative to fossil-fuel cars. It really is emblematic of Elon Musk’s master plan realized.
We feel part of the Tesla’s global efforts to expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy as a primary sustainable solution.
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How to use Grok Bot to block spam calls and texts
Musk told users to ask Grok Bot to scrub their phone numbers from spam lists.
Elon Musk has a new use case for Grok Bot, and it is the spam call. On Thursday he replied to an X user named Arash with a short instruction: “Ask your @Grok @Bot to remove your phone number from spam call & text lists!” Arash had said he got tired of the calls, had an AI bot find his number on listing sites and file removal requests, and packaged the process as a free skill for others.
The skill is called Spam-Call Scrubber, which is described to find a phone number on people search sites and data brokers, submits the opt outs, completes the confirmation emails those sites send back, and rechecks on a schedule the user picks. Using it requires the Grok Bot app. The pitch is time saved, since most broker opt outs sit behind separate forms on separate sites.
Ask your @Grok @Bot to remove your phone number from spam call & text lists!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 15, 2026
Musk said Grok Bot now gives each bot its own email address, and that it can detect scam emails. On Thursday he also said SpaceX would make users whole if the bot botches a purchase or leaks a card, then told users to shop away from Amazon after the retailer blocked the agent, as Teslarati reported. The terms of service we reviewed at the time put responsibility for what an agent does on the user.
For Tesla owners, Grok Bot is not just a phone app. Tesla brought Grok Bot into its vehicles on September 22, and we argued earlier this week that the Cybercab’s real advantage may be the errands it runs during a ride. Every Cybercab and the rest of the Model Y Robotaxi fleet has it enabled. The more routine tasks like this one become, the more a rider has reason to hand over something personal in the back seat.
The new Spam-Call Scrubber skill can be downloaded for free and works on sites that honor removal requests, while noting that listings can reappear, and illegal robocallers do not check any registry. Whether Spam-Call Scrubber cuts anyone’s call volume is something the first wave of users will find out, and Musk’s endorsement guarantees that wave is coming.
For a century, the car has asked the same thing of its owner, which is basically to pay attention. Even the best ride-hailing app like Uber or Lyft only moved the problem into someone else’s hands. You stopped driving, but you still sat in a stranger’s car, while half listening, and wondering whether to take a phone call in the car without being rude. The Cybercab has no wheel, no pedals and no driver. With Grok @bot now live inside it, it becomes something else entirely, and I think that matters more than the fleet count that everyone is tracking.
Grok @bot is an agent, not a voice assistant. A rider signs in once, and from then on can say what they need and watch it happen. Order dinner from a favorite restaurant. Fill the grocery cart. Move money, answer email, adjust a calendar, push a work project forward. Tesla engineer Yun-Ta Tsai confirmed it is enabled across every Cybercab and the rest of the Model Y fleet, and Tesla’s own pitch is that Full Self-Driving handles the commute while Grok handles the errands.
Think about what that does to a thirty minute ride. Uber sells you a trip, while Waymo sells you the same trip in a more private setting. Tesla is selling the thirty minutes themselves, returned to you with an assistant attached. Errands that used to eat a Saturday get done between pickup and drop off. The ride stops being dead time between two places and becomes a place of its own.
Tesla integrates Grok Bot into its vehicles for the ultimate personal assistant
Best of all, your Bots follow you into any Cybercab, and presumably your own Tesla, then logs you out automatically when you step out. Anyone can bolt a chatbot onto a screen, but much harder to own the vehicle, the autonomy stack and the assistant at once. It also quietly ties SpaceX’s Super Intelligence business to Tesla’s fleet, after Tesla converted its xAI stake into SpaceX equity. The relationship between those two companies is getting harder to describe as separate.
This is also where the hard questions start, because an agent that can spend your money in a vehicle other people also ride in needs some answers. How does it handle a voice it shouldn’t trust? What gets recorded, who can see it, and for how long? What happens when a rider leaves halfway through a task?
If Tesla gets those answers right, the scoreboard changes. We have been counting Cybercabs and wait times. The more telling number may be what riders accomplish per trip. That is data almost no one else will ever have, and it is the real reason to watch Grok @bot.
What do you think? Leave me a comment.
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Tesla’s mirrorless Cybercab will give riders a visibility upgrade
Tesla engineer confirms Cybercab update letting riders pull up rear and repeater cameras on demand.
Tesla is working on a Cybercab update that would let passengers pull up the vehicle’s rear and side cameras on demand, and the request came straight from a rider.
The exchange played out on X late Friday. Cybercab rider Dan Burkland shared photos of the two-seater’s cabin screen after an evening ride, praised the UI team’s work, and left one request: let riders open the rear and repeater cameras whenever they want, “especially for peace of mind.” Tesla UI software engineer Evan (@CarCoder) answered with two words: “In development.”
The Tesla UI team absolutely crushed it with the infotainment software. Nicely done @CarCoder!
One feature request: Allow folks to pull up the rear & repeater cameras on demand. This would be great especially for peace of mind. https://t.co/mNAOSLx6pE
— Dan Burkland (@DBurkland) October 10, 2026
The idea fits a pattern Teslarati has tracked since public rides began. Days after paid Cybercab service opened in Austin, Tesla sent riders a survey that asked them to rate the touchscreen, the app and the cabin, and to pick the features they wanted most. We reported on that survey in September, and a camera view is the kind of small software change Tesla can push quickly if riders keep asking.
It also speaks to something unique about the vehicle. With no steering wheel, no pedals and no driver, passengers have no mirror to check and no way to see behind them. The hardware is clearly built for camera awareness, from the repeater cameras to the rear camera. Letting a passenger look through those same cameras would give a nervous first time rider a way to confirm what is around the car.
The timing matters because the fleet is growing fast. Tesla’s Robotaxi account said on Saturday that more than 300 Cybercabs are now serving Austin, an eightfold increase in 30 days, and Tesla AI chief Ashok Elluswamy named Dallas as the next city. More cars and more cities mean more people riding in a driverless vehicle for the first time, which is exactly when small trust features carry weight.
For now, the feature is confirmed only as in development. If Tesla follows its usual pattern with Cybercab software, riders could see it appear in a point release without any announcement, and Teslarati will watch for it.
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