Ben Leavens, DVM

@WilliamShatner Try it, you'll like it!

And for the #teslarites who don’t understand 500 miles. Time is money. How long does it take to pump a tank of gas? 4-5 mins versus 30. Early last week I went up to the Yosemite area (about 300 miles.) I got up there, did my thing and got gas (5 mins) and drove back. With a Tesla. It would be drive up (maybe on one charge) charge up 20-30 mins, do my thing. Drive back, stop along the way to recharge (again probably another 20 mins…) That’s too long. 500 would be one recharge so it’s 10 mins gas versus 29-30 mins which I would consider.🤷🏼

@SawyerMerritt Need to convert one to a motor home!

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.”

Reminds me of the gravity wall construction for Glory Village :)

@Tesla Best freaking car in the world.

7 years ago today, we unveiled Model Y It became the world’s best-selling car of any kind just 3 years later

@fortruecharity Yessssssss

"Let us beware of mere charity with the tongs." —Lend a Hand Charity Magazine, 1893 Rather than keeping ourselves at a distance from those we serve, our charity should be personal and relational.

And the truth is probably hundreds of Teslas go through there every day on FSD. I’d like to see the cabin camera feed, but of course that is private. The driver was clearly doing something besides driving in those four seconds! Thanks for the reproduction of the situation. It brings clarity. There was a real problem early last year with some left lane closing construction merges, but it was fairly short lived and resolved a long time ago. And it was recoverable if the car was being properly supervised.

I went to the exact same location of the Cybertruck accident shown in the Fox News video. This is the US-69/59 Eastex Freeway northbound HOV lane at the Y-split near the Eastex Park & Ride exit (approaching from downtown Houston toward Humble). In the Fox News video, the vehicle failed to follow the right curve, going straight into the barrier. Well, I tested it twice today with Tesla FSD engaged the entire time with zero human intervention. And unless you think I am a hologram speaking to you from another dimension now, it worked out really well. Here is the video of me taking the exact same curve twice, with Tesla FSD v14.2.2.5.

@elonmusk @wholemars @WR4NYGov Yep.

@wholemars @WR4NYGov Logs show driver disengaged Autopilot four seconds before crashing

The media is running a story today about how a Cybertruck “allegedly” crashed on a Texas highway. Spoiler alert, the crash happened while the human driver was in control. The law firm, which is seeking $1 million, says that last summer Justine Saint Amour was driving her Cybertruck with Autopilot engaged. There’s just one problem — Autopilot is a legacy lane keeping system that never shipped on Cybertruck. The driver then admits that before the crash they disengaged the system and started driving manually. Indeed, the video shows the truck starting to turn before the driver disengaged and drove into the wall. Tesla hasn’t officially responded to the lawsuit yet, but available telemetry indicates the driver probably wasn’t paying attention, got startled, and crashed. There doesn’t seem to be any attempt to steer back towards the on-ramp in the video, rather you see the trajectory change from turning with the ramp to driving straight into it. When you crash your car, people tend to put blame on anyone but themselves. A high profile company like Tesla, with a CEO who is the wealthiest man on Earth? Yeah, they kinds of BS lawsuits happen often. Let’s wait for more data and discovery to take place, but based on the evidence i’m seeing so far that doesn’t look like something FSD — even an older V13 — would do.

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@DudespostingWs Tripping pipe!

This is how the most dangerous job you never hear about keeps your world running every single day. Roughnecks are the frontline crew of oil and gas drilling operations.

@elsolde_mexico @EmbCanMexico :/

🤔🇨🇦 Mexicanas que tenían contemplado un viaje para festejar los XV Años de su hija acudieron hoy a la @EmbCanMexico para saber los nuevos requerimientos para viajar este mes. Refieren que ya tenían todo pagado. 😥 📹 Adrián Vázquez

We hope this is part of our future at Glory Village!

@FoxNews I thought the same thing. I probably would have tripped if someone was taking a picture!

NYPD CHIEF AARON EDWARDS reacts to the viral photo of him jumping a barricade, jokes "imagine if I fell." "To me it was just instinct. I'm trying to get the bad guy." “I don't want that picture to be about me. I want it to be about the day, I want it to be about what we did.” “There's gonna be no obstacles, nothing's gonna stand in our way from protecting New Yorkers.”

@Tesla Yet some states continue to do everything they can to impede the business model to protect the legacy dealer business models. It is frustrating.

Buying a Tesla is extremely simple You can order online within 2 mins & handle your entire delivery process via the Tesla app

@TeslaAUNZ @Tesla Yessssss

FSD Supervised keeps you independent

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX 😳

NEWS: Amazon has filed a formal petition calling on the FCC to deny @SpaceX’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centers, going as far to claim the project would take “centuries” to deploy. Amazon: “Deploying the proposed million-satellite constellation would take centuries, even assuming the availability of all global launch capacity to do so. In short, the Application seems to describe a lofty ambition rather than a real plan—and a speculative placeholder rather than a complete application under the Commission’s rules.” 🤦‍♂️

@elonmusk @niccruzpatane 100%

Tesla self-driving is a game-changer

:/

🤣

Please come to Joplin :)

@Tesla Yep.

FSD Supervised makes an 8h drive feel like a 30 minute errand