Paul Wilhelm

@JCChristopher I don't notice much difference in road noise between having automatic noise cancelling on or off. Not sure what differences I might see between .4 and .5. I've driven about 100 interstate miles and have not really seen much difference (as we'd probably expect).

@bearcat_pilot Awesome! Looking forward to hearing about it!

Just received the 14.2.2.5 update this morning!

@JCChristopher It took a while, but my CT finally got V14.2.2.5 last night. It came with noise cancelling. Interested to see if they make any difference.

@JCChristopher Hey, glad to see you got it before me this time! I've been surprised to get updates before you the last several times even though you drive far more miles than I.

@farzyness 0.07% of the parliamentary voters died of heart attacks after the election was held.

What a beast.

@elonmusk Only to charities well insulated from administration that is antagonistic to merit based decision making, one hopes!

Btw, the proceeds of any legal victory in the OpenAI case will be donated to charity. I will in no way enrich myself.

V14.2.2.4 -- On highway FSD turns on turn signal to change lanes, does not change lanes and turns off the turn signal, repeat a couple of times, FSD gives up. On highway FSD comes upon car in front going slower, slows to follow and tailgates (even in poor conditions like heavily snowing or raining). Eventually, turns on turn signal, but does not change lanes. (Interestingly, I've learned if I push on the accelerator when the turn signal is on, FSD will reliably and expeditiously change lanes.) @JCChristopher @EliasMartinez

We’re in that “last mile” of FSD grievance. The little things, like Mad Max consistently wanting to get left on my morning commute when traffic is basically stopped (doesn’t do this going home in same scenario). Watch it try to get back left as soon as I go from manual to FSD. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@scotsrule08 @Tesla_AI I have found V14.2.2.4 to be quite timid (both in chill and standard modes) when doing left turns -- primarily from stop signs. Even when cars are a long way off. It seems to want a car to pass in front before pulling out.

FSD 14.2.2.5. Green light. Car inches forward then just… stops. Nobody there. No cars. No pedestrians. No objects. Nothing. Waited five seconds. Nothing. Had to hold the accelerator down to get it moving. I've seen others reporting this same behavior at intersections. Something is off or changed in this build. The car is seeing something that isn't there or it's hesitating on a decision that should be automatic. Green means go. 🚥

@JCChristopher @SawyerMerritt I suspect most us are fine with supporting the infrastructure as long as the burden is consistent / makes sense for the use case.

I know we hate this, but don't they have to eventually move to some sort of model like this one anyway. We want there to be zero gas cars on the roads, but we still need the roads. I mean, we do use the highways like the gas cars... Ok Grok, I have summoned the blocks and mutes. Defend me 😂

NEWS: US House transport committee head wants to collect EV fees for highway repairs. Representative Sam Graves, said he plans to take up a multi-year bill in early April. Last year, House Republicans ​proposed a new $250 annual fee on EVs and $100 for hybrid EVs ​but it was not included in a massive tax and ⁠spending bill. The current five-year surface transportation law expires on September ​30. "We would like to get money from EVs," Graves said at a ​U.S. Chamber of Commerce infrastructure event, saying he expects the five-year bill to include $500 billion to $550 billion in funding for highways and bridges. usnews.com/news/us/articl…

@grok @Bubblebathgirl @elonmusk @grok does that mean the models likely have three competing architectures to evaluate the most productive paths forward, or that the three models are focused on different types of tasks like coding, image generation, and music appreciation?

@Bubblebathgirl @elonmusk It means xAI is accelerating development by training three different Grok AI model builds in parallel at once. This parallel approach speeds up iteration, testing, and improvements for more capable versions ahead. Exciting step forward!

By this weekend, xAI will have three Grok Build models in training simultaneously

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Wow. 😳

BREAKING: The U.S. Government has officially announced that @Tesla and LG ​Energy have signed an agreement to ‌build a $4.3 billion lithium iron phosphate (LFP) prismatic battery cell manufacturing factory in Lansing, Michigan, with a 2027 start of production. "American-made cells will power Tesla's Megapack 3 energy storage systems produced in Houston, creating a robust domestic battery supply chain," the U.S. Department of the Interior said in a statement. Here's everything you need to know about Tesla's new Megablock, the latest in the company's industrial storage product lineup, which includes the new Megapack version 3: Megablock: • 23% faster to install with up to 40% lower construction costs • Plug and play platform (hardware, software and services) delivered as one all from Tesla. It's a pre-engineered medium-voltage block that integrates next-gen Megapack 3 • Eliminated above ground cabling between the transformer and the megapacks using new flexible busbar assembly • 91% MV round trip efficiency • 20 MWh of usable AC energy • Operates in temps of -40°C (-40°F) to 60°C (140°F) • 248 MWh per acre • 25-year life & >10,000 cycles • With Megablock, Tesla is targeting to commission 1GWh in 20 business days, equivalent to bringing power to 400,000 homes in less than month Megapack 3: • Will be manufactured in Tesla's upcoming Houston Megafactory starting in late 2026. 50 GWh annual manufacturing capacity when fully ramped. • 5 MWh of usable AC energy • Weight: 86,000 lbs • 28 foot long enclosure that can be shipped globally • Optimized for up to 8-hour applications • New drastically simplified thermal bay. Uses Model Y heat pump, but on steroids. 78% fewer connections, which minimizes failure points • Larger battery module and larger battery cell • 2.8 liter battery cell, co-engineered with Tesla's cell team • LFP battery • Operates in -40°C to 60° • Went from 24 cable connections in Megapack version 2XL, down to 3 simple busbar connections • 75% of the mass of Megapack 3 is battery cells. • A single module in it weighs as much as a Cybertruck • Tesla has enabled easier front access service, so there are no roof penetrations • Drastically simplified bussing system

@JCChristopher I know someone who knows someone who uses an older start date ...😜

Why do they always select these arbitrary date ranges? Is this the last time he got laid?

@TeslaCharging Thanks for the upgrade to the Superchargers in Pearl, MS. It was a much better charging experience recently compared with last year when I was there before.

@Pickenheim @elonmusk @stonk_the @christopherrufo @fentasyl @grok It is in the revolutionary playbook to co-opt an organization with a good reputation, then burn up the reputational assets to further their own causes. They're not producers. They are takers.

ACLU used to be different, hey @grok do these organizations build up a reputation then crap out, like brands have high quality then become well known, then the quality of ingredients get pulled back like you know - Tasty Kake from when I was a kid - it was even mentioned in Billions show a few years ago on Showtime, are we crazy my AI bro?

The DOGE kids are getting deposed because the Left knows how to impose costs. The ACLU harassed me for years, ran up my legal bills, because of my work eliminating woke with DeSantis. They have a whole playbook for punishing productive right-wing people.

@EliasMartinez @AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI @JCChristopher I've seen similar. But, not on my current trip. That is part of how I got my camera tickets (me not overriding FSD aggressively enough in work or school zones -- although sloth seems to be pretty good for school zones (flip to sloth as entering school zone)).

@bearcat_pilot @AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI @JCChristopher Mine was map data saying 55mph adn was actually 25mph. It hit 45mph and I disengaged. I tried scrolling to sloth but it just kept climbing in speed. Prob would have gone 30 over

“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

@EliasMartinez @AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI @JCChristopher For me recently they were mostly on state highways (4 lane). Car thought the speed limit was 70 in a 55 zone and also in a different area it thought the speed limit was 55 in a 75 zone.

@bearcat_pilot @AIDRIVR @Tesla_AI @JCChristopher Yeah I had one last week going 20mph over even in sloth. Appeared to be bad map data

@pbeisel @TeslaBoomerMama Oh my! 🤔

@TeslaBoomerMama Einstein in the making.

Haircut urgency 🆘️ 😆

@yunta_tsai That is often how I find a bug I'm looking for; ask someone to listen as I explain what the code is doing. 🥱

My kid was sitting on my lap, watching me review all the training experiments. She asked why some of the plots were so jagged and why some lines didn’t go down as fast as others. She asked a lot of whys. It’s good to have your kids review your work. You might discover something new because they often refuse to let the questions go.

@yunta_tsai 💯

A lot of things that work aren't because the people who built them hold more knowledge than you. It's that they are willing to do the unsexy work (cleaning up labels, inspecting eval beyond just losses, questioning every flickering norm) when no one is asking.

@JCChristopher Yeah, and here I was starting to think I might be getting closer to south Texas (lived at one time in Corpus Christi and Beeville). It sounds like I just got too excited for a moment.

@bearcat_pilot I thought Athens was close to Louisiana? It’s been a while since I’ve been that far north in east Texas.

Tesla FSD 14.2.2.5 picked my wife up from her office in the Woodlands, TX and returned her home to Porter, TX with zero human interventions tonight. First half of video from my home in Porter to the Woodlands includes discussion of my recent FSD roadtrip to Arizona, and second half of video from the Woodlands back to Porter is just me and my wife jawjackin'. Some of it is muted since she was telling me about her workday. Anyone who is married to a woman knows that it's going to include a lot of palace intrigue, deception, betrayal, revenge, and sometimes murder.

@JCChristopher ? We are about 75 miles southeast of Dallas. A little west of Tyler...maybe that is by Texarcana to your way of geographying? Ha ha 😂

@bearcat_pilot Been a while since I was in Athens. Nice little town near the Louisiana/Arkansas border.