Your Grok Bot now rides in Tesla's Robotaxi. Here's how to turn the ride into work time

What's trending: Grok Bot now works inside Tesla's driverless rides. Tesla engineer Yun-Ta Tsai announced on X on October 11 that "Grok @bot is enabled on all Cybercabs and the rest of the Model Y fleet," and Tesla's Robotaxi account followed with a simple line: "Talk directly to your Grok @bot in Robotaxi." The back seat just got a desk, minus the actual desk.

How it works: you sign in to Grok once on the car's screen, and the bots on your account are there on later rides too. You talk, and your bot does the job through the apps you've already connected. Early riders used it to send email, add things to an Amazon cart and order coffee. When you step out, the car logs you out, so the next rider can't peek at your inbox.

The play: a ride across town is usually dead time spent scrolling. Now it can be the part of the day where the small stuff gets cleared: answering the customer who emailed overnight, reordering supplies before the shelf runs empty, moving tomorrow's meeting, or asking your bot what landed in your sales inbox since breakfast. It's like having an assistant ride shotgun, except nobody's in the driver's seat either.

How to run it: First, set your bots up before you ride. Connect the apps they'll need, like email, calendar and the store you buy from, at your desk, because the car is for talking, not for typing passwords. Second, keep three or four ride jobs you can say in one sentence, such as "reply to new customer emails with a thank-you and ask for their order number" or "add the usual coffee filters to my cart." Third, keep approvals on for anything that buys something or emails a customer, so you see the draft or the cart before it goes out. Fourth, when you get out, open the bot's chat on your phone or computer and check what got done.

No Robotaxi nearby? Most people can't hail one yet, since Cybercab rides opened to the public in Austin on September 3. The same play works from the Grok Bot app on any ride where someone else is driving: the bus, the train, or the passenger seat on a road trip.

Watch out for: it's early. Tesla hasn't published release notes for the change, and hasn't said whether customer-owned cars are next. You're also talking out loud in a car, so skip anything you wouldn't say in an elevator, like card numbers, client secrets or payroll.