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SpaceX modifies V4 Starlink dish for Enterprise customers

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SpaceX modified its V4 Starlink dish to meet the needs of Enterprise customers. Starlink Enterprise provides services to businesses. 

Elon Musk’s space company rolled out its new Starlink Enterprise Kit for $999, which features a modified V4 dish for businesses.

“Engineered with improved flexibility for installation, longer cables, and mounting options the Enterprise kit is our recommended option for fixed site businesses. This set up is ideal for businesses wishing to use their own third party routers and network equipment as no router is included,” says SpaceX about its Enterprise Starlink dish. 

SpaceX also offers Flat High Performance and Standard hardware for $2,500 and $499, respectively. The High-Performance kit is for in-motion use and environments with challenging weather. Meanwhile, the Standard kit is designed for smaller businesses and everyday internet use. 

All Enterprise services are Priority plans, offering priority support, public IP, and a telemetry dashboard. Businesses may choose between three Starlink Enterprise service plans: Priority-40G for $140/month, Priority-1TB for $250/month, and Priority-2TB for $500/month.

In June, SpaceX slashed the price of its new V4 Starlink dish by 50% in the United States. Individual customers may purchase the V4 Starlink dish at Best Budy, Home Depot or Target. SpaceX’s price reduction in June dropped the V4 dish’s price down to $299 in some states.

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Tesla’s Giga Texas vehicles now drive themselves to outbound lot

Tesla is gearing up for Unsupervised Full Self-Driving in Texas with freshly produced vehicles at the factory.

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Just a couple of months after Tesla announced that vehicles produced at its California factory were driving themselves to the outbound lot, it appears that the company’s Gigafactory in Texas has now followed suit.

In a post on X on Monday, longtime Giga Texas observer and drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer shared video footage of multiple new Model Y and Cybertruck units autonomously driving to the outbound lot. The news comes ahead of Tesla’s aim to launch Unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) around the Austin area in the coming weeks, alongside the launch of a commercial robotaxi launch.

“I saw this happening constantly, with Model Ys exiting and immediately driving away on their own from the factory,” Tegtmeyer said in the post. “This is a huge accomplishment for Tesla as now Giga Texas joins Fremont as FSD improves overall efficiency!”

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Tesla announced in January that its vehicles at the factory in Fremont, California were driving themselves to the outbound lot, though this appears to be the first time they’ve done so at Giga Texas. The automaker is expected to launch Unsupervised FSD in Austin in June, just as Google-owned company Waymo has been rolling out robotaxi services in the area through a partnership with Uber in recent months.

In December, a Bloomberg report suggested that Tesla had already been in regular discussion with Austin officials about robotaxi services, ahead of the company’s announcement of plans to launch in 2025. Along with rolling out commercial robotaxi services in Austin, the company has said that it aims to do so in California sometime this year as well, before deploying the service in other U.S. cities.

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Tesla adding new safety features for improved emergency detection

Emergency vehicle detection is about to get a little more intuitive, according to one keen observer.

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Tesla is set to add a few upcoming features to make it easier to detect emergency vehicles while driving, as highlighted by one code sleuth from the firmware in a recent update.

Last week, Tesla code sleuth and hacker greentheonly posted on X that firmwares from software update 2025.8.x includes updated warning functionality for emergency vehicle siren detection. The feature will display an alert when a siren is detected, and it will also lower the driver’s media volume automatically to make it easier to hear.

Green also says that the alerts will require microphone permissions to turned on in order for the feature to work. They’re currently expected to be debuted in a future update, despite being detailed in the firmware for the recent update branch.

You can read the help text for the feature below, as was also shared by green.

Automatically detects and alerts the driver to nearby sirens, helping you or Autopilot recognize and yield to approaching emergency vehicles. When a siren is detected, the media volume lowers, and an alert appears on the display. Sound detection data stays within the car and is not saved or transmitted unless data sharing is enabled.

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With the exception of the new Model Y, Tesla’s vehicles only include one internal microphone and they don’t have an external microphone. Still, emergency vehicle detection is expected to be aided by the vehicles’ many cameras, and the upcoming feature is expected to be active whether or not Supervised Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot are active.

Green has long been a reliable source for reporting these features weeks or months ahead of them going live. One recent example includes when green pointed out in December that internal code detailed an upcoming improvement to towing range estimates through an intuitive “trailer profile” option.

Tesla also regularly adds and improves safety and other features in its vehicles through software updates, with one engineer just this week sharing plans to correct a small Cybertruck display quirk in response to owner criticism.

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Tesla is correcting a minor, annoying Cybertruck display quirk

Tesla Cybertrucks would soon be able to properly recognize and display trailers on their infotainment displays.

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Tesla is working on addressing a minor but annoying Cybertruck quirk in an upcoming update. With the update in place, Tesla Cybertrucks would be able to properly recognize and render trailers in their displays.

The Quirk

As observed by Tesla owners on social media platform X, the Cybertruck at its current state is unable to recognize other Cybertrucks on the road. Instead of a Cybertruck avatar, the all-electric pickup truck’s infotainment system simply displays a regular vehicle like a pickup truck on its UI.

This is quite annoying as the Cybertruck is the most technologically advanced Tesla in the market today, and it is extremely recognizable. It is also doubly annoying since CEO Elon Musk mentioned that Teslas should be able to recognize and render other Teslas on their displays several years ago.

An Upcoming Update

In response to a Cybertruck owner’s post, Tesla Lead Engineer Wes Morrill noted that the capability to render other Cybertrucks on the all-electric pickup truck’s UI is on the list. For now, however, Tesla is working on an update that should fix the way the Cybertruck renders trailers on its UI.

“Will put it on the list. Right after making it recognize trailers instead of looking like a semi truck is trying to mate with Cybertruck,” the Cybertruck Lead Engineer lightly wrote in a post on X.

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Elon Musk’s Past Promise

Back in 2020, CEO Elon Musk mentioned on X that Teslas will soon be able to render other Teslas, including their model and color, on their displays. Musk noted that such a feature could even be a game of sorts. “Display will also soon render Teslas specifically as their model & color instead of as a generic sedan/SUV. Has potential for a fun punch buggy sort of game,” Musk wrote back in July 2020.

While Musk stated that the feature will soon be available, its rollout has been subjected to a severe case of “Elon Time” until today.

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