Tesla's Cybercab Has a Secret Joystick. Who Can Use It?
hotcars.com · Fri Sep-11 11:50:38 published · Fri Sep-11 13:03:08 alerted · alerted 1h 12m after publish · read at www.hotcars.com ↗ · regulatory · mat 75
The discovery of manual controls in Tesla's driverless Cybercab coincides with an NHTSA audit query into the vehicle's compliance with federal safety standards.
verdict FRESH, direction bearish -> short TSLA (regulatory: The discovery of manual controls in Tesla's driverless Cybercab coincides with an NHTSA audit query into the vehicle's compliance with federal safety standards.)
overnight drift: short TSLA at close, exit next close (regulatory: The discovery of manual controls in Tesla's driverless Cybercab coincides with an NHTSA audit query into the vehicle's compliance with federal safety standards.) [skipped at close: outranked — mat 75 short lost to mat 75 short (decision 18028) for S4 TSLA exiting 2026-09-14]
Signal: wrong. The bearish call never played out — TSLA rose after entry, and the position was never profitable (best unrealized was still -0.28%). Timing: not the issue — price was only down -0.54% from prior close at decision time, so the trade wasn't chasing a move that had already occurred; the predicted move simply never came. Exit: middling — the realized loss of -6.34 USD (~-0.87%) sits between the best (-0.28%) and worst (-1.71%) unrealized, so the exit neither cut the loss near its minimum nor took the maximum damage. The dominant factor is a wrong directional signal: the regulatory news did not translate into downside while the trade was open.
📖 Glossary
S1 primary — trades the alert's primary ticker in the direction the article itself indicates; exits at the same day's close.
S2 counterparty — trades the inferred counterparty ticker (weakest signal, LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
S3 peer — trades an inferred peer ticker (also LLM-inferred sympathy); exits at the same day's close.
S4 overnight — holds the primary ticker from today's close to the NEXT day's close.
Verdicts are decided top-to-bottom, first match wins; REPRICING is also the fallback when nothing else matches (2026-08-08 #220).
UNKNOWN — a needed price input (move since close or move in the last 30m) is missing.
PRICED — |move since previous close| ≥ 2.0%: already reflected in price.
REPRICING — |move in the last 30m| ≥ 0.5%: the tape is actively moving on it. Also covers a quieter move — |move since previous close| in [1.0, 2.0) with a quiet last-30m tape: still developing, not yet priced.
FRESH — |move since previous close| < 1.0%: a genuinely new move.
materiality — how market-moving the story was judged, 0-100 — alerts require materiality ≥ 70.
