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@FredLambert lol. You literally hear the car honk at you twice and swerve out of the lane it turtle-crawls into and your response "Geez, really aggressive" instead of "holy crap, we almost got side swiped"

The idea that Tesla is alone in the race to develop end-to-end vision system for self-driving and delivering into consumer vehicles is officially dead. Like dead, dead. I tested Xpeng's VLA 2.0 in the streets of Beijing, and it is comparable to my experience of daily driving Tesla FSD v14. Xpeng is not charging $100 a month to drive this. It is inlcuded in its higher-trim vehicles and it already caught the attention of Volkswagen, which is going to integrate into its own vehicles - something Tesla hasn't been able to do despite trying. You can watch the full 40-minute drive on @ElectrekCo

@KobeissiLetter Can residents = robots?

This is incredible: Elon Musk will receive 200 million super-voting shares in SpaceX ONLY IF the company establishes a permanent Mars colony with at least 1 million people. In other words, Elon Musk will only receive this pay package if 1 million people live on Mars. In other words, Elon Musk's biggest goal is now establishing a colony on Mars with a similar population as Dallas, Texas. Musk is so optimistic about this goal that the vast majority of his pay is now contingent on it. Life on Mars is closer than many expect.

SPACEX: The California Coastal Commission has apologized to Elon and SpaceX. The agency acknowledged that members made improper statements at a 2024 hearing on SpaceX’s launch cadence at Vandenberg Space Force Base, showing political bias against SpaceX and Elon because of his support for Donald Trump. As part of the agreement, the Commission will not require SpaceX to obtain a coastal development permit for its launch program and agreed not to consider perceived political beliefs, speech, or labor practices of SpaceX or its officers in future regulatory actions. SpaceX will share sonic boom monitoring data with the Commission. The case is Space Exploration Technologies Corp v. California Coastal Commission, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, No. 2: 24-cv-08893. Gretchen Newsom (Alternate Commissioner) was the most vocal critic, stating that Musk was "hopping about the country, spewing and tweeting political falsehoods". She specifically called out his social media posts regarding FEMA and hurricane relief efforts. Caryl Hart (Chair) stated that the commission was "dealing with a company, the head of which has aggressively injected himself into the presidential race". Mike Wilson (Commissioner) said Musk's "direct control of what could be the most expansive communications system in the planet" and noted that Musk had recently been "talking about political retribution".

Without this global town square for free speech, a lot of important things never would’ve seen daylight. Real-time information governments tried to bury. Scientific debate that was actively censored. Voices that would’ve stayed silenced forever. Respect to @elonmusk for being the man in the arena when it actually counted. 🫡🙏

Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey Presents the “Barracuda” Cruise Missile on Japanese TV: “This is designed to scare China into not taking action on Taiwan. It has a very specific purpose.” “[We] design our cruise missiles so that they can be very easily manufactured by automotive-style assembly lines.” “Remember that during WWII, the United States used their peacetime factories and pivoted them to wartime use.” “It’s much less expensive than a conventional missile… it’s cheaper to make 100,000 of these than 1,000 existing missiles.” “I should be able to buy a whole bunch of these for less than a budget compact car.” Rebuild The Arsenal. 🇺🇸

@FredLambert The vehicle logs are on the gateway and in the emmc flash... there's nothing relevant on the modem daughterboard... Also reminder of this post and the thread it quotes. TLDR: 100% Driver error. Not 99%. Not 99.9%. 100%. x.com/i/status/16181…

Nick Shirley's video exposing $170,000,000 in California fraud got 7.7 million views California Democrats just advanced AB 2624 — a bill that would let the filmed organizations demand his videos be taken down Penalty for non-compliance: up to $10,000 per violation and potential jail time The bill was written by Assemblywoman Mia Bonta Coincidentally, her husband is California's Attorney General He also just announced his own $267,000,000 Medi-Cal fraud bust 4 days before her bill advanced @nickshirleyy

@lucagrecoita GIGA

Tesla integrates crash cans directly into its Gigacastings. Xpeng, Xiaomi, and Seres bolt theirs on separately - and both approaches have advantages most engineers overlook 💡 Tesla maximizes part reduction - fewer components, fewer assembly steps. Replacing a rear cast rail section is 10x cheaper and 3x faster than the traditional Model 3 build. Xpeng, Xiaomi, and Seres use bolt-on aluminum extrusions. In low-speed collisions, the extrusions absorb energy. The main casting is never involved in the repair. Two strategies. Both are proven. The real differences are in what they optimize for. I built a side-by-side comparison of Tesla vs three Chinese OEMs - machines, alloys, vertical integration, design tradeoffs, and monthly production volumes. ✅ Crash can integration vs bolt-on design tradeoffs ✅ Machine suppliers, sizes, and installed capacity ✅ Vertical integration vs supplier partnership decisions ✅ Average monthly production volumes by vehicle model Want the full breakdown? 1. Follow me 2. Comment "GIGA" I'll send it over.

NEWS: A Delaware court today dismissed several shareholder lawsuits against @Tesla after ruling that the cases must be filed in Texas instead, a big win for Tesla and Elon Musk. Vice Chancellor Bonnie W. David ruling: "I will not second-guess Tesla stockholders’ chosen forum by purporting to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of Texas law and procedure relative to our own. The owners of the corporation voted to require that derivative litigation be filed in a Texas forum. On the present facts, it is not inequitable to enforce their decision. The defendants’ motions to dismiss are therefore granted." The three lawsuits were originally brought in Delaware. However, while the cases were still in early stages, Tesla announced and then approved a corporate change moving its legal home from Delaware to Texas. As part of that move, Tesla adopted a new bylaw requiring that all shareholder derivative lawsuits be filed exclusively in Texas courts. The shareholders argued their cases should stay in Delaware since they were filed there first. The court disagreed, saying Tesla’s new Texas forum rule is valid and applies even to existing cases because the litigation had not progressed far and the change was properly approved by shareholders. As a result, the Delaware court granted Tesla’s motion to dismiss, not on the merits of the allegations, but because Delaware is no longer the correct venue. The plaintiffs would need to refile in Texas if they want to continue the cases. Big legal win for Tesla!

Tesla just got the first supervised autonomy approval in EU history and the market is treating it like a regional software update. The Netherlands has 17 million people. Irrelevant. What matters is the regulatory architecture Elon just cracked open. Under EU mutual recognition, every member state can now adopt the Dutch certification without running their own review. Germany, France, and Italy could go live by summer. One approval, 450 million people, delivered over the air. Run the math on what Tesla submitted to get here. 1.6 million km driven on EU roads. 4,500 track test scenarios. 400+ compliance requirements. 18 months of documentation and audits. The RDW put FSD through the most rigorous driver assistance evaluation any regulator has ever conducted. Their conclusion: the system makes roads safer than human driving. Now look at the dataset moat. 8.4 billion miles of global FSD training data. One collision every 5.3 million miles with FSD engaged. One every 855,000 miles without it. No other automaker on Earth has a training corpus within an order of magnitude of that number. And every Tesla on the road is widening the gap in real time. Everyone keeps comparing Tesla to car companies. The company that just got an entire continent's regulatory framework to certify its neural network for public roads is not a car company. Elon has been saying autonomy alone is worth more than the rest of the business combined. Today is the first day European regulators started agreeing with him.

The @BoringCompany could build a Hyperloop tunnel from downtown SF to downtown LA for <5% of this cost and it would be a technological marvel exceeding any high speed rail on Earth

TERAFAB NEWS: Supermicro announced it is expanding its collaboration with SpaceX, xAI, Tesla, and Intel. CEO Charles Liang announced Supermicro will integrate its DCBBS (Data Center Building Block Solutions) speed with Terafab scale. He called Denifinity a "game-changing vision." Denifinity is assumed to be Terafab. Supermicro has already powered xAI, Tesla, and Intel cloud computing and now aims to optimize data center infrastructure solutions for use on Earth and in space. They already have over 2 million sq. ft. of U.S. facilities.

Fraudsters hate attention. Taxpayers deserve transparency. Help us grow @USLaborIG @X account to 5,000 followers and join the mission to protect American workers and defend taxpayer dollars. 🇺🇸

The federal government’s workforce is shrinking at a historic pace: The federal government shed -18,000 jobs in March, down to 2.66 million, the lowest since 1966. This marks the 14th consecutive monthly decline. Since the beginning of 2025, the federal government has cut -352,000 jobs, reducing its workforce by nearly -12%. As a % of total employment, federal jobs are down to 1.67%, the lowest on record. By comparison, in the 1960s, this percentage averaged 4.2%. The federal workforce has never been this small.

Remember when all the Tesla haters predicted the Supercharger network would be shut down?

What a dumb article. Tesla's Q1 deliveries are expected to be up YoY. Reuters is comparing Q1, historically the softest sales quarter of the year for all automakers, to Q4, historically the strongest sales quarter of the year...

The grooming gangs scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country’s history - where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists. The independent national Inquiry will now begin its work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred. The Inquiry will be laser‑focused on grooming gangs and will explicitly examine the role of ethnicity, religion and culture - including how institutions responded. There will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes.

This "deeply reported" piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below.