Corbin
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Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006. Utes, Jazz, RSL, Niners, Mammoth, Red Sox, Blades Tweets about EVs too much. Partner in crime @bballbecka
Tomorrow my dad I will cross our 12th and final Pac-12 Stadium off the list. @Utah_Football @CUBuffsFootball
🚨HOLY CRAP!!! The Houston TSA line has now stretched to a mind-blowing 150 minute-wait-time and has snaked around the airport, down an escalator and into BAGGAGE CLAIM!!! THIS IS INSANE!!!!
FSD 14.3 builds on v14.2 with big leaps in reasoning: the car will actively think through unseen edge cases instead of just reacting, making it feel more sentient (Elon's words). Expect smarter logic in decisions, smoother city driving, upgraded Smart Summon, and "Banish" for auto-parking after drop-off. In internal testing now, wide release in a few weeks. Can't wait!
Just had a ride in the NVIDIA autonomous vehicle. I could argue that the Tesla is slightly smoother, but that is missing the point. The point I learned this week by hanging out with a bunch of different companies building autonomous vehicles is that AI at a variety of different companies is evolving so quickly that within 18 months you will see a bunch of different ones shipping and moving from level two (gotta pay attention) to level four (no human needed). Now the narrative will switch to one of scale. Uber went from an idea in a Paris snow storm to an international company driving people who live in slums in South Africa in four years. My expectation is that AVs will reach the slum in less time. Will it be a USA based company like Tesla? Or a Chinese company that reaches the slum (hence meaning it will reach at least 25% of humans on earth in between) first? We now will switch to one of convincing people AVs are a better way to get around than having humans drive. Regulation. Liability. Butts in seats. Experience. Price. And to all the engineers who worked in these things for 20 years: thank you. Your efforts will save millions of lives so my kids won’t have to go to more funerals when they are my age. Seven years ago @IrenaCronin and I wrote it is coming in our book. It took a while but it is finally here. Now the hard work of convincing every naysayer and hater is here.
WSJ: Tesla Finally Has Its First Semi-Truck and It’s Already a Hit With Truckers. "Truckers who drove it in pilot tests say they loved features including a centered driving position, faster charging and longer range for about $100,000 less than other battery-electric trucks. Angel Rodriguez, a 56-year-old truck driver for Hight Logistics in Long Beach, Calif., recently swapped out a 13-gear diesel truck for a Tesla Semi, which is automatic, for a one-month pilot test. “It’s just easier on your body. It’s less stressful because you’re not really having to engage the clutch and the stick shift.” Big F Transport employs five mechanics to service more than 40 diesel-powered rigs and a fleet of trailer chassis in Wilmington, Calif. “If we go all EV we will only need one [mechanic] to service chassis,” said Geovanny Melendez, the carrier’s VP of operations, who went to see the Semi earlier this month at a ride-and-drive event near the Port of Long Beach. Jennie Abarca, co-founder and CEO of King Fio Trucking in Long Beach, Calif., once worked as a truck dispatcher and her husband is a truck driver, so she knows all too well the toll a diesel engine takes on people’s lungs and hearing. She eventually wants to swap out King Fio’s 27 diesel trucks to create an all-electric fleet. King Fio already has 11 battery-electric trucks from Volvo and Nikola. But the company limits those trucks to shorter trips to and from local ports because they only have a range of about 225 miles. The Semi, by contrast, can travel 500 miles on a single charge, according to Tesla. For King Fio that means two or three round-trips a day from Long Beach to warehouses in the nearby Inland Empire or a single round-trip to Las Vegas. She has 20 Semis on order. “The Teslas change everything,” Abarca said. “It opens up a whole different type of delivery that I can make.”
It isn’t about how fast you can pump gas. It is about boldly going where others have gone before, but without the pollution. Heck, you might save a whale. Or find Spock. I bet you might even zip along quietly into undiscovered country. It’s like a game of 4D chess, your opening move is key to the entire game. "This air, which is keeping us alive, is thinner than your skin. It's so fragile." "I'm trying to do less of everything, to own less of everything, to be less of everything." How about less pollution?
@brandenflasch I cannot imagine a Zoox vehicle on the highway cause it looks about as safe and efficient as a brick.
We – design the chips & hardware – make the cars w/ said hardware – collect real-world data at scale – train the real-world AI model – built (& continue to expand) the massive supercomputer cluster that trains it – deploy AI directly to millions of robots on wheels All that is shared with @Tesla_Optimus for broader applications in both the physical & digital world
Tesla Cybercab First Look! Cabin Space, Doors, Interior Quality, Trunk Space, Charging Port, Design youtu.be/E6KEjOTyl5c?si…
Uber will invest up to $1.25 billion in electric vehicle maker Rivian to acquire 10,000 fully autonomous robotaxis that will be deployed in 2028 reut.rs/4sVOjva
