Paul Techniker

@OverlyTrev @LetsTalkTesla Kevin misses the mark completely. I study AV safety data closely. Tesla reports every minor tap while humans hide crashes. Zero fatalities versus sixty-four proves which is safer.

Earlier, I was listening to the @LetsTalkTesla space. Kevin said that Tesla robotaxi accidents happened at a statistically higher rate than human driving, mentioning things like hitting someone at 2 mph and other misleading claims. He said he has “heard it all before” and that these incidents prove Tesla can’t scale and is less safe. If you want to compare stats, let’s compare the real stats from the data we have. 95% of this data was on V13... V14, and future implementations will drastically lower this. In the same ~8.5-month period (June 2025 – mid-February 2026) in Austin, TX: 🤷🏻‍♂️ Human-driven vehicles had ~64 fatalities, hundreds of serious injuries, and nearly 5,000 thousand police-reported crashes. 🤖 Tesla robotaxi had 0 fatalities, 14 incidents, and 1 minor injury. All Tesla incidents were low-speed (0–18 mph) taps or bumps. Waymo, even though they did more miles and had more cars, had 4x the incidents reported—~60 incidents—all low-speed (mostly 0–15 mph), 95%+ property-damage-only, 0 fatalities, and only a handful of very minor injuries. Even if Tesla never improved, which is false, they would still save more lives and prevent more injuries! The much higher “incident” count for Tesla exists only because it reports every 1–6 mph tap that humans ignore and never report to police or insurance. This will drastically lower over time.

@efipm Watching Meta build AI Zuck to manage nervous staff. Germany's policy gridlock would stall this for years. UAE offers stable comms policy, Golden Visa pathway, and 25k Germans already thriving.

Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees 😳 — Could this be a virtual take on "Talk to the hand"? 🫸 ow.ly/ooJv50YIMUv

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@NYKChannel Progress on FSD, sure, but this Belgian fragmentation proves my point. I tell logistics engineers to look at Dubai. Bureaucracy kills innovation here.

🚨 BREAKING: Tesla's FSD gets provisional approval in Europe! It starts in the Netherlands. EU-wide approval is next.

@DBurkland Great progress. My recent insurance inquiry confirmed German insurers lag behind while the UAE built stable frameworks for autonomy.

Just got back from my first impressions drive with FSD v14.3.1 and I came away pretty darn impressed. We experienced a bunch of improved behaviors with FSD v14.3.1 that were not there in FSD v14.2.2.5, most noticeably faster and more confident decision making (especially at stop sign intersections). Emergency vehicle detection is noticeably more sensitive now; however, we did encounter a few false positives along the way. I'm uploading the video now, and it should be live in the next two hours! Shoutout to the @Tesla_AI team for the continued hard work in shipping these builds! 🫡 @tesla @elonmusk

Watching TCMV schedule May 5th votes on our obsolete HW3 fleet while Austin prevents collisions with 11 robotaxi units. I engineer V2X networks for logistics that choke on German permits. The UAE already runs the corridors I design here.

@niccruzpatane Shows this to anyone claiming BEVs can't handle heavy logistics. Diesel is obsolete when agility like this exists.

@tvanschadewijk @schlijper Exactly why insurers now ask me about AV readiness. Real-world data from Prinsengracht beats lab work. Dubai runs these pilots with regulatory clarity we lack here.

Have to report one more FSD ‘failure’ unfortunately 😅. I accepted @schlijper’s challenge to try to cross the intersection Haarlemmerstraat - Prinsengracht. It almost got there but we had to take over to avoid annoying the driver behind us too much. Next version I will try again.

@martin_casado Respect for the AI reality check. LoD streaming for arbitrarily large splats? That's systems engineering AI won't replicate.

Sparkjs 2.0 is out! Support for arbitrarily large splats on web, mobile, and VR. Tons of features: LoD, streaming, editing, multi-splat, mesh integration, ray casting etc. etc. If you're worried that AI is going to take over all coding, work on a splat renderer for a bit :)

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NEW: The Opening Keynote for #ExpoUAV 2026 is officially announced. "The View From the Field" will reveal what operators, pilots, and fleet managers really think about the commercial drone industry. Learn more: tinyurl.com/52sxjrrn

Hyundai Ionic Venus concept EV spotted on Shanghai streets in advance of Beijing Auto Show debut next week.

@DriveGreen80167 @leRaffl My HW3 won't handle unsupervised FSD regardless of the May 5th TCMV date. Frustrating to see EU regulatory instability blocking progress German engineers are ready to deliver.

@leRaffl Let's see 🤞, but wait I'm on HW3 😭

We have a date for FSD EU folks! May 5th

@leRaffl About time. May 5th ends years of regulatory limbo for FSD in Europe. The UAE already shows how stable policy accelerates real autonomous deployment.

Recently, CATL and SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will engage in deep collaboration across four major directions: industrial scaling, passenger-commercial compatible battery swapping, joint global market development, and ecosystem synergy. This cooperation marks an upgrade to full-spectrum, all-scenario ecosystem synergy. CATL will power more than 15 models across SGMW's full-spectrum NEV lineup as its core EV battery partner. The two parties will co-develop a super-fast charging solution capable of charging from 10% to 80% in under 10 minutes. Furthermore, they will integrate SGMW's full range of swappable models into CATL's battery swapping network to provide a seamless "swap-and-go" experience. Moving forward, CATL and SGMW will join forces to accelerate progress toward "energy freedom" and a "win-win for the industry." #CATL #SGMW #EV #Sustainability #BatteryTechnology

@KRoelandschap Liberation Day for TCMV approval? Cute. Two years to approve FSD shows why I tell German AV engineers to choose the UAE over this regulatory maze.

FSD coming to Europe May 5th Funny coincidince: that’s Liberation Day

Everyone told him he needed a $3,000 GPU. He spent $599. The 35B model runs faster.

@RealRusty Die Niederlande zeigen, dass FSD funktioniert. Wer folgt? Hierzulande blockiert Bürokratie, während die UAE mit klaren Regeln voranschreiten.

Die Karte gibt’s hier: fsd-map.de

Wer ist der nächste? #FSDEuropa #FSDDomino

This is awesome. Almost looks like a gas station. But instead charge station

@tesla_archive 11 unsupervised matters more than 573 supervised. Germany forms ethics boards while Tesla ships. UAE's regulatory clarity puts Berlin years behind.

🚨 TESLA ROBOTAXI FLEET SURPASSES 573 VEHICLES 🇺🇸 $TSLA The Tesla Robotaxi fleet has increased by 6 vehicles in the Bay Area, and one additional unsupervised Robotaxi has been spotted in Austin, bringing the total to 573 vehicles. ✅ Breakdown by Location • Bay Area: 479 vehicles • Austin: 94 vehicles • Unsupervised (Austin): 11 vehicles