<p>ARK Invest CEO <strong>Cathie Wood</strong> said her firm would add parking tickets to its <strong>Tesla Inc.</strong> (NASDAQ:TSLA) valuation model after an unsupervised Robotaxi she rode in received a $75 violation during a nine-minute video released Monday.</p>



<h2>Wood Adds Tickets To Tesla Model</h2>



<p>Wood sat in the front passenger seat as a fully driverless Tesla moved through Austin streets without a safety monitor. When the ticket arrived, she said, &#34;We got $75 ticket,&#34; adding, &#34;Wow this..is something we hadn't thought of before. We're gonna have to put this into a new line item in our model for Tesla — tickets.&#34;</p>



<p>Wood still compared the ride favorably with her earlier trips in <strong>Alphabet Inc.</strong>-backed (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Waymo vehicles. She described Tesla's performance as smooth but said the ticket showed a real operating cost that large robotaxi fleets must address.</p>



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<blockquote><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey @elonmusk! I recently experienced @Tesla's @robotaxi fleet in Austin. Smooth ride, no driver. It's remarkable to see 10+ years of real-world AI training manifesting in a fully autonomous service.<br/><br/>We did discover a new operating expense line item for our Tesla model: parking… https://t.co/KMc30oVGe9</p>— Cathie Wood (@CathieDWood) June 8, 2026</blockquote>
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<p>The Tesla bull later posted on X, &#34;Hey @elonmusk! I recently experienced @Tesla’s@robotaxi fleet in Austin. Smooth ride, no driver. It’s remarkable to see 10+ years of real-world AI training manifesting in a fully autonomous service.” She added saying, “We did discover a new operating expense line item for our Tesla model: parking tickets. Our Robotaxi got a $75 parking ticket. How does Tesla plan to handle parking and traffic violations in a Robotaxi world?”</p>



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<h2>Robotaxis Drive ARK's Tesla Bull Case</h2>



<p>The ride doubled as a real-world test of ARK's Tesla thesis. &#34;When the cost of transportation falls, we'll get more of it,&#34; Wood said, echoing <strong>Elon Musk's</strong> view that adoption could move &#34;slowly, slowly… then all at once.&#34;</p>



<p>ARK's older Tesla model treated robotaxis as the company's main valuation driver, projecting autonomous ride-hailing would account for about 60% of expected enterprise value and more than half of 2026 EBITDA in a $4,600 per-share base case.</p>



<p>Tesla last week expanded its driverless Robotaxi service across the Austin metropolitan area, with the company’s unsupervised fleet said to include roughly 21 active vehicles, far below the scale needed for mass ride-hailing.</p>



<h2>Regulators Keep Focus On FSD Safety</h2>



<p>Meanwhile, regulators remain focused on safety. In March, NHTSA escalated its probe into about 3.2 million Tesla vehicles equipped with Full Self-Driving after nine incidents, including one fatal crash and two injury crashes, tied to reduced-visibility conditions.</p>



<p>Tesla's Austin Robotaxi fleet has reported 17 NHTSA incidents since its June 2025 launch, none involving major injuries. Five low-speed collisions were attributed to FSD, with others linked to separate factors.</p>



<p><strong>Price Action:</strong> Tesla shares closed 4.59% higher at $408.95 on Monday, edging lower to $408.78 in after-hours trading.</p>



<p><strong>Benzinga Edge Stock Rankings</strong> indicate Tesla stock has a Momentum in the 47th percentile and Value in the 3rd percentile.</p>



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<p>ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood announced she will add parking tickets to Tesla's valuation model after her Robotaxi ride in Austin incurred a $75 violation. While praising the smooth, driverless experience as a testament to AI training, Wood highlighted this as a new operating expense for autonomous fleets. The event coincides with Tesla's expansion of its unsupervised fleet in Austin and ongoing regulatory scrutiny regarding Full Self-Driving safety incidents.</p>

- ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood announced plans to include parking tickets in Tesla's valuation model after a driverless Tesla received a $75 ticket during a recent ride in Austin.  
- Despite this unexpected expense, Wood continues to regard Tesla's performance positively compared to Waymo's vehicles, emphasizing the operational challenges for large robotaxi fleets.  
- ARK's latest model projects significant contributions from autonomous ride-hailing to Tesla's overall value, although the current robotaxi fleet remains limited in scale for mass adoption.

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