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Tesla Model S P100D humbles tire-spinning, donut-making Dodge Demon
A Tesla Model S P100D recently raced a Dodge Demon on a drag and rolling street race, providing a brief idea about which car would come out on top in less-than-ideal road conditions. As could be seen in the video of the race, however, the Demon’s own hubris became its undoing, and it finished both races staring at the taillights of the Model S P100D.
The video of the Model S P100D vs. Dodge SRT Demon was uploaded by YouTube’s drag racing enthusiast, DragTimes. Brooks, the owner and host of the channel, initially believed that the Demon would have no problems overtaking his supercar-beating P100D, considering its raw power. As noted by the YouTube channel’s host, however, the owner of the Demon opted to change up the car a little bit, replacing the ICE monster’s OEM rear tires with a pair of Hoosier slicks. Racing slicks are perfect for the drag strip, but on everyday roads, they’re pretty much a hit-or-miss.
On paper, the Dodge Demon looked every bit like a car that is designed to dominate on the quarter-mile. The American muscle car is equipped with a 6.2-liter Supercharged V8 engine that makes 808 hp. The 4,280-pound, rear-wheel-drive vehicle is paired with an 8-speed automatic transmission. The owner of the Demon in DragTimes’ video gave his vehicle a Pump Gas Tune, however, in addition to the aforementioned Hoosier slicks for the rear wheels.
In comparison, the Model S P100D is equipped with dual motors that produce 920 ft-lbs of instant torque and 588 hp to its wheels. The 4,900-pound electric car is also all-wheel-drive, enhancing its traction and keeping the immense amount of torque from its electric motors under control.
Prior to the start of the race, the owner of the Dodge Demon opted to do some launches, seemingly showing off the car’s raw power. The driver of the ICE monster also opted to do some donuts for good effect, which, as Brooks immediately observed, resulted in the Hoosier slicks losing a lot of rubber. By the end of the donut-making, tire-shredding session, the Demon’s rear tires did not look good.
The race between the Tesla Model S P100D and the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was quite painful to watch, if you’re a Demon fan. As soon as the race started, the full-sized electric family sedan shot off, thanks to its Ludicrous mode and instant torque. The Tesla pulled, and then it just got farther and farther. The Demon, on the other hand, could not control its power, and by the time its tires found some traction, the P100D was already several car lengths ahead.
A rolling race between the Model S P100D and the Dodge Demon was not that much better for the ICE car. As soon as the driver of the Demon floored the accelerator, the muscle car spun its wheels before gaining traction. By the time it hit its stride, the Tesla was already far ahead.
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Overall, DragTimes’ recent video is a lesson in hubris. Had the driver of the Demon opted to keep the car’s OEM rear tires on, the results of the race would have been very different. Had the Demon’s owner decided against the donut-making session, the Hoosier slicks would have gripped the street just a little bit better. For now, however, DragTimes’ Model S P100D could walk away with a win against an ICE car that was made to dominate in a straight line.
As we noted in a previous report, the Model S P100D previously won Motor Trend’s World’s Greatest Drag Race, beating out vehicles such as the Aston Martin DB11, the Mercedes-AMG GT-R Nismo, the Porsche 911 Turbo S, and the McLaren 570GT. During that race, many of Motor Trend’s YouTube followers lamented that the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon should have been included in the event, and it would have handily beat the Model S P100D. As proven by DragTimes’ recent video, however, the Demon could probably beat the Model S P100D in the quarter mile, but it would have to control its power first.
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India tells Elon Musk’s X to “Follow the Law” in latest censorship update
Elon Musk says X now exposes government censorship, but India’s secrecy laws complicate that promise.
Elon Musk’s promise to make government censorship requests on X “clearly visible” is running into a wall in India, where the law forbids the very disclosure Musk is promising.
On August 15, Musk responded to an update from X’s open-source algorithm team by writing “Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible.” The claim referred to a change X pushed two days earlier to its public xai-org/x-algorithm repository, which now includes a controversial filter written directly into the code. The filter suppresses posts from 665 accounts flagged by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court from appearing in the For You feed of any viewer located in Brazil, unless the viewer already follows the account. The election tied to the filter is scheduled for October 4.
India’s government wasn’t as impressed, and responded on Monday that “X will have to follow the law of the land,” in response to Musk’s transparency push covered by the Times of India. The problem is structural rather than political. India issues content blocking orders under Section 69A of its IT Act, and Rule 16 of the accompanying 2009 Blocking Rules requires those orders to stay confidential. Publishing an India equivalent of the Brazil filter, naming specific accounts and citing specific government orders, would itself violate Indian law. Government use of Section 69A has grown from roughly 6,000 orders a year between 2018 and 2023 to about 24,300 in 2025, according to a Tech Times report.
The contrast puts Musk’s transparency pledge in an odd spot. It works largely as advertised in Brazil, where electoral law requires disclosure and X can point to specific account IDs and a specific court order in public code. It cannot work the same way in India, where the law requires the opposite. X users in India will keep seeing content disappear from search and their feeds without any public accounting of why, even as X tells the rest of the world that its censorship compliance is now inspectable.
This isn’t the first time X’s fights with a national government have shaped how the platform operates. Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered X to suspend the accounts of sitting lawmakers and journalists in 2024, a standoff that cost X its Brazilian revenue for months and froze Starlink’s local accounts before the investigation into Musk and X was closed in March with no evidence of wrongdoing found. X also sued California over a state law requiring moderation disclosures, arguing the mandate itself violated the First Amendment.
Whether India’s government pursues anything beyond a public statement remains to be seen. For now, the mismatch between what X can legally publish and what different governments legally allow it to publish is the real story behind Musk’s seven word claim.
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Tesla’s driverless Cybercab just passed a big test with State Governor
Florida’s governor rode Tesla’s Cybercab at a closed test track and called the experience impressive.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rode in a Tesla Cybercab on a closed test track this week and came away impressed, posting on X that the vehicle “successfully navigated all hazards — a kid running into the street, a crash with police stopping traffic, a Model S cutting us off, etc.” He called the ride “impressive.”
The stop was part of a broader event Monday at SunTrax, a 775 acre state owned proving ground in Auburndale that Florida built specifically to test autonomous and connected vehicles before they reach public roads. Standing next to a gold Cybercab, DeSantis described the car in plain terms: “You go in there and you just sit. You have a screen. There’s no steering wheel, no pedals. Clearly these things could be very beneficial.”
We took a ride on a robotaxi on the Suntrax course and it successfully navigated all hazards — a kid running into the street, a crash with police stopping traffic, a Model S cutting us off, etc.
Impressive! https://t.co/FVAkzFLz3r
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) August 11, 2026
DeSantis paired the praise with a caveat that has followed autonomous vehicles since the category existed. “You don’t want to be in an autonomous vehicle and it drives you into a ditch. That would not be good,” he said, framing safety validation as the gate before wider deployment.
SunTrax, the 2.25 mile oval which the state calls the only high speed autonomous vehicle test track in the Southeast, can simulate rain, pedestrian crossings, hills and crowded urban conditions at highway speeds, letting companies push a car past what an early public rollout would risk. Tesla, Waymo and Beep all use the facility, and Florida’s regulatory approach, among the most permissive for autonomous vehicles in the country, doesn’t require a human operator inside a fully autonomous car.
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Tesla has reason to want the blessing of Florida and states beyond, as the Cybercab entered volume production at Gigafactory Texas this spring and has since self certified as SAE Level 4 under Texas law. Public road testing so far has kept a safety monitor in the passenger seat, and Florida is where Tesla has been expanding its existing Model Y based Robotaxi service instead, adding Miami in July and then Orlando and Tampa two weeks later. A closed track endorsement from a sitting governor doesn’t change any of that, but it does put Tesla’s newest hardware in front of a state that has already shown it will move fast on rules.
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The real reason Elon Musk wants every car connected to space
Elon Musk says all cars will eventually need Starlink to handle massive AI bandwidth demand.
Elon Musk is making the case that satellite internet, not fiber or cellular towers, will end up wired into every car on the road. In a string of posts on X, the SpaceX CEO wrote that all cars will have Starlink in the future and called satellite connectivity the only way to get super high bandwidth to billions of vehicles.
The posts started with Musk endorsing a Cloudflare forecast that traffic generated by autonomous AI agents will soon dwarf traffic generated by humans browsing the internet, a shift he described as not a close call at all. From there he narrowed the argument to infrastructure, writing that the only system that can support the insanely fast bandwidth growth needed by AI is Starlink, before extending the logic to cars specifically.
AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all.
Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate. https://t.co/VztgrinN5k pic.twitter.com/Wo4FiRKjPU
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 9, 2026
The timing lines up with Tesla’s own hardware decisions. On July 20, Tesla confirmed the Cybercab would ship with a Starlink V5 terminal built into its roof, the first time the company had put satellite hardware in a production vehicle. A day later, Tesla’s head of AI, Ashok Elluswamy, explained the connection wasn’t there for safety and that Cybercab’s driving stack runs entirely on onboard cameras and compute, while the satellite link exists for navigation, customer service, and fleet management instead. Musk followed with his own post about the feature, saying riders would be able to watch 4K streaming video during rides.
By July 22, Musk had already said Starlink would extend beyond Cybercab to Tesla’s full lineup. Sunday’s posts push that same logic outward again, this time framed as a requirement across the industry rather than a feature specific to Tesla, and tied directly to the bandwidth AI systems are expected to consume.
SpaceX’s newest Starmind will make earth data centers obsolete
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The AI argument has been building on SpaceX’s side for months. The company has an FCC filing pending for a third generation Starlink constellation, and it has separately proposed Starmind, a constellation of up to a million satellites designed to run AI computation directly in orbit rather than just relay data. Musk has said he expects space to become the cheapest place to deploy AI compute within two to three years. Starlink and Starmind serve different jobs inside that vision, one moving data and the other processing it, but Sunday’s posts treat vehicles as one more category of hardware that will eventually need both.
None of this changes anything for Tesla owners today. Cars already on the road keep running on LTE and Wi-Fi, and Tesla hasn’t outlined a retrofit path for existing vehicles. The July 22 commitment applies to future production, not the fleet already delivered. What Musk added on Sunday is the reasoning: satellite connectivity isn’t a Cybercab novelty, it’s a bet that ground based networks won’t keep up with how much data cars, robots, and AI systems are about to generate.
India tells Elon Musk’s X to “Follow the Law” in latest censorship update
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