Tesla Cybercab 2026: Musk's 'Pet Destroyers' War With Waymo
Musk Just Called Waymo "Pet Destroyers" — and Promised Tesla's Cybercab Won't Touch Your Cat Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of tesladan.me, I have covered Elon Musk's rhetorical grenades for years, and I can tell you: he saves his wildest lines for moments when the stakes are highest. Two days before Tesla reports Q3 2026 earnings on October 21, Musk sat down for a livestreamed interview with Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley — and lit the robotaxi war of words on fire. His target? Waymo. His charge? That Waymo's driverless cars are, in his words, "pet destroyers." "Maybe what a lot of people don't know is that Waymos are like pet destroyers," Musk said. "Maybe Waymo has made some improvements on that front, but they do run over a lot of pets, and we don't want to run over the pets." Fighting words? Absolutely. But this isn't just Musk being Musk. Behind the trash talk sits one ...
