Andrew Field

Solstice

@MobofJoggers I live in an edge-case rural area. Unmarked Lanes on gravel roads. Unclear speed signs. Ignores yellow advisory signs for slower speeds on turns. But largely LOVE FSD.

If you aren't at 99% why do you even own a Tesla?

@viccyball @niccruzpatane BS. 100% of my first first 50 mi in my model y were FSD through nasty construction zones, Lane switches and other things in the salt lake area, and it performed perfectly. Remarkable.

@niccruzpatane Eh it’s ok until you hit a construction zone or snow and ice

People really don’t understand how much they’re missing out on Tesla FSD. This even includes some Tesla owners. This is not an exaggeration, it changes your life.

@BarackObama @NASA Yes Mr. President, it was inspiring, but it did feel a little outdated to have a rocket launch that did not include the boosters coming back down to earth and landing upright. Dumping them into the ocean seems wasteful today.

It was inspiring to watch the Artemis II launch yesterday — @NASA’s first crewed mission around the moon since 1972. Our space program has always captured an essential part of what it means to reach beyond what we thought was possible, and I hope the four brave astronauts on this mission will inspire a new generation to follow in their footsteps.

@BDean08431064 @leixing77 Ditto, except it will handle our unpaved/unmarked curvy road, but it goes too slow.

@leixing77 We live in a very rural area. It doesn't do really well if the road doesn't include painted sides or the middle. We take over when we leave the main highway. It is designed for urban driving and is exceptional in that environment.

I've now had my Model Y for a few days and like to offer my own honest assessment for #FSD (14.2.2.5): Incredible is probably an understatement for its capabilities as a point-to-point ADAS (and I stress ADAS as driver remains responsible, and knowing that is very important), aka L2++ that is commonly referred to as in China. Both my wife and I agree that it drives better than both of us (each of us have roughly 30+ years of driving experience), even if FSD is in Hurry mode (we usually put it on Standard). I like how at Standard it's a few mph above the speed limit (for example on highways with 65 mph speed limit it would go at about 72) whereas on Hurry it would follow the flow of the traffic just like I would normally do myself (others are doing 80 I might just follow). The best part about FSD is not how smooth it is, but how decisive it is and how it anticipates road conditions and scenarios (both front and back) and react in a manner that otherwise would take a human driver slightly slower to react. I love the way how it slows down when there are pedestrians next to a crosswalk or nudges outward a bit when a car is inching forward to make a turn. There have been numerous instances or scenarios where I would question if FSD would hesitate but it handled them like a pro. At the same time, it's patient where warranted. Automatically finding parking spots (including charging spots at Supercharger stations) is pretty sweet. The previous instances where I had experienced FSD were in 2021 and 2023. This current version is probably 1000X or 10,000X better. One wold I would use to describe FSD is it's very "sensible." It just seems to know what to do in different scenarios. Having said all of these, it's NOT perfect. There are bugs. There have been a couple of instances where I had to take over. One is it tried to make a left turn one intersection too early (the two intersections are pretty close to each other) just before arriving at the final destination. The other is very specific to the New England area: potholes. It was going through a rough patch where the tires would just go directly over the potholes where a human driver would obviously tried to go around them (Maybe it'll be smarter enough in the future to automatically avoid potholes). The other "bug" is that it can't go directly into my home's garage yet upon arrival but rather parks on the curbside. Sometimes for local driving we still like to drive on our own and realize how great of a car it is to drive in terms of handling even though FSD is awesome. But for long trips we know FSD will be great for alleviating fatigue (we'll have one coming up later this week from MA to Philly, will be interesting to see how it handles traffic in NYC vicinity and GW Bridge where traffic is a bit more hectic). Overall, rate it 99 out of 100. Powerful but with its limitations.

Robert, today we got our first snow in Emigrant, Montana since we got our 2026 model y performance. It is remarkable, but today I took over to slow down because it was trying to go 65 in a 70 with an ice packed road. My experience told me to go about 45, and several vehicles behind me just stayed back there apparently judging the same.

Our robot has driven me and the family for two hours in driving rain across one of USA’s most dangerous roads. Without my hands touching the wheel once. It is how it handled pudddles, two brown streams crossing the road that most impresses me. While coming at us fast. None of you will do better. It was perfect. Which leads to trust. Once you trust a company with your life you will buy anything that company offers. People have no idea how good the AI is from @tesla. Trust will sell a lot of robots. Better. It gets me to trust all AI.

@AlexBerenson Cause v Effect?

Don't want to get dementia? Looks like your best bet (besides exercise) is drinking LOTS of coffee. This well-run study shows a 25+% decrease in dementia risk in heavy coffee drinkers over decades. The raw numbers are even more stunning. Coffee drinkers had 70% fewer diagnoses.

@mikepat711 Mike, I'm 2 weeks in with a new model Y. the FSD works great, the problem is me. I still am very nervous, particularly at highway speeds. How long does it take to get over the sweaty palms?

Model Y is dumb good in the snow. I never knew snow driving could be so enjoyable

@mikepat711 How do ya'll not get nervous with the subtle lane positioning? Makes my palms sweaty. I'm only a week in.

Tesla is one big point update away from being able to remove nag and let us use the infotainment system/our computers with FSD active. Will they actually enable these things next big update? Not sure if they’re legally allowed to. But the tech will be sufficient, at least on normal clear weather days. The reason for my confidence is that I feel like I should already be allowed to do all of this on 14.2.2.3. I’d sign off liability to myself today if it meant they’d let me do it now. We all know we’re barely paying attention at this point. We’re not supposed to say it out loud but you know you’re on that phone the whole time.

Tesla Hustle! @elonmusk I have a Model Y Perf in cobalt blue due in the next few weeks. Just got a call at 6:40 on New Years eve saying I could get a black one if I wanted it sooner. But I would have to take delivery tonight! I live a six hour drive away: 🙁 Great end-of-the-quarter hustle. I told the nice young man that I am glad that I'm a $TSLA shareholder.

A dog in Montana read about the Minnesota Fraud back in November, in County Highway of course. x.com/i/status/20062…

@TaraBull County Highway

I'm running a test, where did you first hear about the Somali ran Minnesota daycares collecting millions with no kids in them? X MSM Other?

@elonmusk My delivery date keeps getting pushed back.

Try Tesla self-driving cars. They’re incredible!

Montana sunset

@ClownWorld Earth girls are easy So I married an ax murderer

@elonmusknews30 B

@HarmeetKDhillon Cornish game hen or grilled rack of lamb--medium rare

Been a crazy busy week so far but taking a quick break to ask — what’s your favorite non-turkey protein for Thanksgiving dinner for the fam who don’t love the traditional centerpiece?

Paradise

@NWischoff Congratulations. "Never give up." -Elon

Over nine years ago I moved to SF to work at Citigroup as an analyst. I thought an 80k salary was life changing. Shared a 5 bedroom/1 bathroom apartment with 4 girls I met on Craigslist. Today I watched a sign with my VC firms name on it be put up outside of my new office just blocks away. No way in the world I ever thought I'd make it to this point. Never give up.

Montana morning

@Turbinetraveler Guarantee that thing was stripped to the skin.

Throwback to 2012: this C-17 accidentally landed at the small civilian airport Peter O. Knight, Florida, with a 3,000-foot runway, instead of MacDill AFB, which has an 11,000-foot runway. Here's the short takeoff video, unbelievable!