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@XFDModular @DevinOlsenn @wholemars Yep. Mercedes, BMW, Ford, Stellantis and others have tried and then pulled back. This looks scary rushed. I hope no one gets hurt.

@DevinOlsenn @JustThink65 @wholemars My honest speculation is that they had to kick it out the door for stakeholder appeasement. It wouldnt be the first time a company has done so with a beta product.

Rivian Universal Hands-Free vs Tesla Self-Driving This was my first time testing Rivian's new Universal Hands-Free, and I was honestly surprised by how it performed. I understand this is their first attempt and it will only improve from here, but truthfully, it is worse than any version of FSD or Autopilot I have ever used. I respect Rivian as a company, but I always try to remain unbiased in my opinions, so here are my unfiltered thoughts on where UHF stands today. Hoping to test it more as the system receives major updates! Hope you all enjoy the video. Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:45 Struggling to get UHF to turn on 1:25 Hard resetting the system 2:00 Enabling UHF 2:45 Max speed and lane changing 4:00 Strange warning 5:00 Disengagement 5:28 UHF fails on corner 7:58 Attention monitoring test 9:25 Harsh brake for merging vehicle 10:10 Changing driving styles 10:50 Harsh brake for bus 12:15 Robotic driving style 13:10 I am not comfortable using this 14:35 Parking capabilities 15:40 Getting into Tesla 16:50 FSD vs UHF thoughts 18:20 Final thoughts

Good grief. Lie detector hit 11. Here is Grok’s fact check. Jasmine Crockett (the “she” in that clip) is the Texas Democrat who just lost big in her 2026 Senate primary bid a couple weeks ago. She got crushed by another Dem (James Talarico) and won’t be moving up—basically ends her time in Congress after this term. The tweet quotes her recent rant: “The data shows that Donald Trump is one of the most pro-drug trafficking presidents in modern-day history.” (She also threw in stuff about traffickers loving him for easy pardons and it all being about “corruption.”) Straight-up fact check: This is false and not backed by any real data. It’s just a wild political attack with zero evidence. Let’s break it down simply with the actual numbers: • Overdose deaths (the real measure of the drug crisis): Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed during Trump’s first term (up like 192% from 2016-2020). But they kept rising and hit their absolute peak under Biden around 2022-2023. Since mid-2023, they’ve been dropping hard—down over 21% nationally, hitting the lowest levels since 2020. That drop started before Trump’s second term and has continued (now under 74,000 in a recent 12-month stretch). Trump’s current admin points to border crackdowns and pressure on Mexico/China as reasons it’s improving. • Drug seizures at the border (another key “trafficking” stat): Fentanyl seizures are way down under Trump right now—down about 56% compared to the same time last year. That’s the opposite of “pro-trafficking.” (Most fentanyl still gets caught at legal ports by U.S. citizens in cars/trucks, not migrants sneaking across anyway.) • What Trump’s actually doing: His team is sinking drug boats in the Caribbean, hitting cartels with tariffs on China/Mexico, and ramping up enforcement. Seizures and deaths are both trending down—no “pro-drug” policy here. The pardon thing? No data or reports show traffickers getting easy get-out-of-jail-free cards from Trump. It’s not a thing. Bottom line: Crockett just said “the data shows” without showing any data. The real trends (deaths and trafficking down now, crisis building for years across multiple presidents) don’t support calling him one of the “most pro” anything on drugs. It’s classic overheated rhetoric, not facts. If there was some specific study or stat she was referencing, she didn’t share it—and searches turn up nothing.

Jasmine Crockett: “The data shows that Donald Trump is one of the most pro-drug trafficking presidents in modern-day history.”

Fred, there are already videos out of FSD handling that very spot with ease, so you are wrong on both counts. 1 - FSD could have easily handled that exact spot. 2 - 4 seconds is a lifetime once she took FSD off. Plenty of time to easily stop, although there was no need to stop at all. I think she didn’t realize she had disengaged, because she was fumbling around and hit the steering wheel with her knee. Like you, she will distort reality to fit what she wants to believe.

Tesla fans using the “4-second disengagement” as a gotcha are missing the forest for the trees. Yes, the driver was technically in control of the vehicle at the moment of impact. But she was in control because FSD was already failing by driving too fast ahead of this sharp turn — it was heading straight into a concrete barrier at highway speed with no sign of correcting. Everyone who has frequently used FSD or Autopilot and paints this 4-second disengagement as a “gotcha” moment is being disengenous, and that includes Elon Musk. I have tens of thousands of miles on FSD, and I’ve experienced the system coming too fast into a turn at least half a dozen times. We’ve said this before and we’ll keep saying it: the problem with FSD isn’t what happens when the driver is paying attention and the system works. The problem is what happens when the system gives you every reason to trust it, and then suddenly doesn’t work. The driver has to recognize the failure, assess the situation, decide on a correction, and physically execute it, all in less time than the system needs to create the danger. Musk and Tesla’s propagandists can point to the logs all they want. The video shows what actually matters: FSD approaching a standard highway curve at full speed with zero indication it was going to navigate it. That’s the failure. Everything that happened after, including the panicked disengagement, is a consequence of that failure. The framing that this was “manual driving, not FSD” is technically true for the final 4 seconds and deeply dishonest about the full sequence of events. It’s exactly the kind of liability shell game that courts are increasingly rejecting, as that $243 million verdict makes clear. Tesla created the system, sold it as “Full Self-Driving,” and profits from the ambiguity. At some point, it has to own the consequences.

@CraigJo45755297 @thejefflutz @WilliamShatner On the freeway at 65mph that’s up to 8 hours of driving. Even if you didn’t need to pee, I’d want to stop to stretch my legs or eat.

@JustThink65 @thejefflutz @WilliamShatner Maybe if I knew I had to go that long and stopped drinking 12 hours before?

When Tesla’s get to 500 miles per charge; I’ll think about one. BTW there’s an app that allows Waze to work. 🙄 #thinkIdontknow? 🥱😑

The number one goal of politicians is not to save tax dollars or help the American people it’s to get reelected.

@FurkanGozukara You can’t be this naive.

Brilliant move by Iran. They are planning to levy a 10% toll on all ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. This will generate $73 billion a year, completely offsetting US sanctions and paying for war damages. Checkmate.

@Bob122343 @hamids Tesla is less for me than State Farm and Lemonade Insurance already is offering a 50% discount, so it’s already happened. How soon before State Farm and others do as well is unknown, but my guess is within 12-24 months and I wouldn’t be shocked if it was sooner.

@JustThink65 @hamids 3rd Party insurers are not going to offer any sort of discount for FSD until well a ways off into the future when the data is well proven. And they have already been advertising and offering trials nonstop. People aren't biting.

Something $TSLA FSD fans don't seem to get: - More than 80% of Tesla buyers don't care enough about FSD to buy FSD. - 100% of buyers of other cars don't care about FSD enough to buy a Tesla Since Tesla represents just 6% of vehicle sales in the US, When put together, that tells you that CURRENTLY, that means 99% of car buyers don't care about FSD. I personally love self-driving, and I think in the future, the % of people who care about self-driving will rapidly increase. But it's UNDENIABLE that 99% of CURRENT car-buyers don't care about FSD! Lack of FSD at launch, will only have a negative 1% impact on $RIVN R2 demand based on the evidence! 🤣

My guess is you are correct there will be few takers, but even in a month of using it, I could see a ton of close calls. If they need real world data they aren’t going to get much if people don’t use it. This seems desperate to me. Rivian might be close to turning the corner on profitability. Why risk the lawsuits? Lastly, if California had a problem with Tesla’s naming, I wonder what they’ll say about Rivian’s Universal Hands Free…

@JustThink65 @wholemars I think they’ll be fine since so few people will use it. Not trying to take a shot at Rivian - but they haven’t sold that many gen 2 vehicles and what’s going to be the adoption rate for this $70 a month Adas? It has to be low.

If you charge at home, this is a non-issue. If you live in an apartment and you have to go to superchargers I can see where the range could be an issue. I start out with a full tank in the morning and yeah, going 300 miles without a pee break is a lot. 500 miles… I probably couldn’t do it if I tried.

@WilliamShatner Out of 365 days/yr how often are you driving 500mi without a pee break Captain? 🧑‍✈️

I hope Rivian succeeds, but they are going to have accidents and someone if not multiple people are going to sue Rivian. It’s not ready. This is a big mistake.

@DevinOlsenn @wholemars This seems worse than Tesla FSD 5 years ago. Scary.

@JessicaTarlov Voting shouldn’t be “easier”. Next thing you want six-year-olds voting…. There should be a test on civics before you actually vote.

Republicans are lying to the American people when they say the SAVE Act is a voter ID law—it’s a proof-of-citizenship requirement that would make voting harder, if not impossible, for a lot of people. Passports are expensive, documents don’t always match, and the process can be a mess (been there). We should be making voting easier, not adding more hurdles. Democrats can own this by proposing their own bill that accepts a range of IDs, and includes automatic voter registration and Election Day as a national holiday for starters.

@karthikavl @niccruzpatane If you only had a brain you’d realize it’s not about the sensors…

@niccruzpatane Wow. I am sure these guys have figured out the recipe here. The sensors are cheap. They are going to close the gap quickly and catch up. L4 autonomy by end of year.

This new company called Tensor Auto is claiming they’re making the first Level 4 autonomous vehicle that you can personally own. It costs $200,000. 😂 • 37 Cameras • 5 LiDAR Sensors • 11 Radar Units • 22 Microphones • 10 Ultrasonic Sensors • 8 Water-Level Sensors

@niccruzpatane It’s not about the sensors…

@Tuggernutz87 @ElectrekCo @FredLambert I think you nailed it. He’s gone full retard. 😜

@JustThink65 @ElectrekCo @FredLambert Fred has to engagement farm other wise no one would interact with his garbage.

Tesla says FSD was off before Cybertruck crash — but the video tells a different story electrek.co/2026/03/18/tes… by @fredlambert

@WSJ @WSJopinion WSJ is becoming more and more liberal every day. It has TDS.

From @WSJopinion: The SAVE America Act wouldn’t turn blue states red, and it can’t save Republicans from voter anger at unpopular policies. In the MAGA era, the bill could even marginally hurt the GOP. on.wsj.com/4rFJ8yt

@WSJ @WSJopinion It would turn down the “someone cheated” arguments, which is a good thing.

There are quite a few people including Tesla drivers that don’t realize Tesla’s record all the FSD, pedal and steering functions. Reasons why she may have filed a lawsuit below. Let me know if I missed any… 1 - Maybe she was convinced she hadn’t disengaged. 2 - Maybe she don’t realize she would be proven wrong. 3 - Maybe she thought Tesla would settle anyway. 4 - Maybe she didn’t want her husband or partner to know she was at fault. 5 - Maybe she didn’t want her insurance to know…