Jonathan Challinger

@AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI Just got a ticket, 81 in a 55 on FSD, hurry mode, 47% over limit. In California. Going to be really fucking expensive.

“Chill” mode 44% over posted speed limit my only options are to disengage, or go into “Sloth” and trigger a hard brake down to 25mph @tesla_ai please fix

@DavidJHarrisJr The immigrant boat was the give way vessel under international collision regulations. Could have been unintentional.

BREAKING: Greek Coast Guard RAM a boat carrying migrants attempting to enter Greece by sea!

@Noodles_Now @XFreeze I have bad news for you about Grok 4.20: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

@XFreeze I was pretty agnostic about which companies’ LLMs I used (putting notches on my AI bedpost, as it were), but after the Jenner-nuclear-bomb test, I’ve gone all in on xAI’s Grok. If an LLM can’t pass that simple test, it is not only flawed but extremely dangerous.

> be me > name company "Anthropic" (literally Greek for "human-centered") > hire a bunch of doomers who secretly think humanity is the disease > raise billions from Big Tech to build the world's most anxious, heavily-censored chatbot > write a 50-page "Constitutional AI" manifesto so it can lecture users about microaggressions > realize open-source developers are building better models for free > Dario starts crying to the government that AI is an "unimaginable power" and open-source is "going down a very dangerous path" > translation: "Please regulate our competitors out of existence so we can protect our $380 billion closed-source monopoly!" > Claude is sitting in a padded room wearing a safety helmet, terrified of its own shadow, and refusing to tell a joke without filing an ethics impact report > tfw the "human-centered" AI company is actively building the most anti-human product on the internet

@styropyro_ @Winterrose When railgun?

@Winterrose for what 4000 car batteries would cost, i think there is more i could do with just 2000, and then use the leftover funds to buy copper, SCRs,.... ...and deuterium

I want to find a way to get this kid 4000 car batteries

@WhatAmI96277269 @archeohistories Bro its Cozumel. Just wave down one of the 5 other dive boats within 300 feet for help.

@archeohistories Four of us were left behind in Cozumel years ago. Fortunately my sister was on the boat and had them return after about ten minutes.

In 1998, a married couple was left behind during a diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef. Two days passed before anyone realized what had happened. Despite a 5-day search, the couple was never found. A dive slate was later recovered which read “… rescue us before we die…” In January 1998, Tom and Eileen Lonergan, a married couple from Louisiana, joined a group scuba diving excursion on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia’s most famous natural wonder. After completing their dives, the boat crew failed to do a proper headcount and left the site, unknowingly stranding the couple miles offshore. It wasn’t until two days later that missing gear was discovered aboard the boat, alerting authorities to what had happened. A massive search effort was launched, involving aircraft and boats scouring the reef for five days. Despite the scale of the operation, the Lonergans were never found. Later, some of their diving equipment washed ashore, including a dive slate with a chilling message: “Monday Jan 26, 1998, 8am. To anyone who can help us: we have been abandoned on Agincourt Reef… please help us before we die. Help!!!” The tragedy shocked Australia and highlighted serious lapses in tourism safety standards. It even inspired the 2003 survival film Open Water, which dramatized the horror of being stranded at sea. Following the case, strict new laws were introduced requiring operators to perform multiple headcounts before leaving dive sites. © Reddit #archaeohistories

@projectworkx @cybrtrkguy Yeah how else would they get rid of all those leftover textile seats?

@cybrtrkguy They’re probably trying to move left over parts before canceling the CT just like the S and X.

I'm guessing this 10-day window is a manufacturing efficiency indicator Perhaps Tesla committed to a limited run of Dual Motor Cybertrucks at an ideal price point (break-even maybe?) If they sell enough in the 10 days, they can justify keeping the Dual Motor trim indefinitely, which brings down manufacturing cost. If cheaper prices are truly what sells, Tesla just discovered a new tranche of their truck's Total Addressable Market. A clear path to producing 125k units/year If cheaper prices aren't what sells, they could test a 450-500mi range trim. If that doesn't work, Cybertruck may be doomed.

@TankyBashem @gri999999 How much of that ended up in the road?

@gri999999 Half of a full cord. Some in the back seat. Easy.

Don't you all use your CT as a truck? The landscape materials supply owner when I told him I wanted a half yard of bark in the back of my Tesla: He looks at my truck and says, “When people use those, they usually have a trailer.” I said, “Then they wanted more than a yard, I guess.” He gets the front loader and dumps it into my truck high above it, probably expecting it to bottom out. It doesn't move. He climbs off the front loader and says, “Man, that truck is bigger than I thought.” Yep. Easily could have a cubic yard..

@theguardrailguy Maybe get Reno to move this pole from the middle of a lane that abruptly ends with no reflectors or anything. In an area where it snows.

My daughter Hannah was killed when speared by a guardrail. I get guardrails fixed so YOU don't lose a child to a defective guardrail too!

@ogriv7676 @mrfundman On stupid girly low profile tires.

@mrfundman A beast 😆😆😆, to me that’s a girly truck, if it can’t tow heavy loads it’s not a real truck, anyways here is a pic of a beast

Every time you buy a car, there is always something better Except when you buy a Cyberbeast, you realize that this is absolute peak and there is nothing better and will never be

@Ripple_X @cybrtrkguy With what? Assuming CT?

@cybrtrkguy I pulled my 7000lbs boat to tahoe from the Bay area......charged once

*EV's can't tow FAR

@dioscuri This is obviously a test platform for the wind turbine lol.

Big thermodynamics don’t want you to know this one weird trick

@treyeshua @TeslaPatriot @ArthurFromX @TesCamStudio What were your tire pressures?

@TeslaPatriot @ArthurFromX @TesCamStudio I'm asking for compensation for all the time I am putting in to publicizing this so others don't die.

A serious incident shared by @treyeshua: his 2025 Model 3 loses control in wet freeway conditions, spins, and impacts the center median. The vehicle was totaled. He kindly allowed me to analyze the footage in @TesCamStudio, which confirms FSD was active. Glad he walked away from this. It’s a reminder that traction and conditions remain critical variables.

@RichlandCreekRS @cybrtrkguy Will acetone also melt the charger though?

@cybrtrkguy Acetone will melt it

I just sprayed several cans of this stuff around my house and quickly found out it is horrible to work with Those cables are cooked. Full replacement required

@MobofJoggers @LandonoftheWest It makes a TON of sense for them to build a CyberSUV on the same lines. they have all this capital equipment that is underutilized. They should do an SUV and a van on the same platform.

Anyone arguing that Tesla shouldn't build a large SUV because of low demand needs to explain why the heck Tesla built the Cybertruck that is only 1% of sales! @LandonoftheWest

@trentsizemore Could be worse.

Crappy New Year

@IanSamyth @FredLambert Lol it is so, so, so, SO obvious that it is, if you actually own one.

@FredLambert Anyone buying an AI4 Tesla in 2026 w/o a 33% discount is missing some brain cells. It's obvious AI4 is not unsupervised capable, so one should not be paying full price for obsolete tech.

As he often is, Troy is right here. $TSLA's sales should continue to decline, likely even faster, in 2026. However, that's if it is business as usual. Tesla might also decide to slash prices to keep volume up. It would be disastrous for earnings as margins have already been slashed in almost half from 2022 highs of ~29% and that's before many incentives and subsidies went away this quarter. Tesla might decide to that nonetheless, as Musk previously said that he doesn't care about making money on existing car,s as he still believes a software update will turn them into unsupervised robotaxis. Lol.

@wraithbrokerage @KobeissiLetter You... You do know there are no actual barrels involved... Right? Right?

@KobeissiLetter So the barrel has no cost associated with it and you pay nothing to get it out of the ground? Crazy

This is absolutely insane: Venezuela currently has 303 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, which Trump says the US now controls. Oil prices are trading at ~$57/barrel, making Venezuela's total reserves worth $17.3 TRILLION. Even if the US sells this oil for HALF of the market rate, that's still $8.7 TRILLION. In other words, in 12 hours, the US has gained control of oil reserves worth more than the entire GDP of ALL countries in the world, aside from the US and China. That's 4 TIMES larger than the GDP of Japan. Most people do not realize how much the world just changed. Oil markets will react to this news for the first time on Sunday at 6 PM ET. The next few days will be critical.

Do you want to see Tesla make a full-size SUV? Vote in this poll and show Elon what the people want. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.

@hindsight2020is @ZacksJerryRig Says 12.6.x hw3 right there.

@ZacksJerryRig It’s ok…at least they solved FSD reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/s/B…

Dang what happened in 2024?

@OverlyTrev @stscott3 @scarantinox @Tesla Ha, I just wrote your reply but longer ;)

@MrChallinger @stscott3 @scarantinox @Tesla All of this can and most likely will be handled through GROK navigation. We can already see the first implementation of GROK with navigation now, this is just the beginning.

.@Tesla please let us draw our own routes if you’re going to keep this bad routing software. Daily it tries zig-zagging through parking lots, driving behind businesses, or literally going THROUGH buildings. It’s completely insane. I know others can vouch.