Sean Hogarty

@DiscountChuck Loved hearing it about it, Chuck

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@congressdj Definitely... Not a Performance, but the Juniper LR w/acceleration boost makes overtakes and windy roads pretty nice :)

@VacaBoca That’s fantastic. That 1% though… can be fun! 😝

One thing you have to know following Tesla is that there is a massive amount of anti-Tesla propaganda and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) pushed by powerful and well connected people. This isn't true of most companies, so it can catch people off guard if they're not aware of it. There are a lot of people who desperately want Tesla to fail. Short sellers, the oil industry, the car dealership lobby, the unions, people on the left, people on the right, people who hate Elon... you name it. That's why I started covering the company seven years ago. I just saw so much information pushed by TSLAQ (the Tesla short sellers) that was either completely false or twisted the facts in an egregious way. Tesla's valuation was $30 billion back then, and TSLAQ claimed it was going to go bankrupt. I thought they had a bright future. But neither the bulls nor the bears could have predicted it turning into the trillion dollar AI giant it is today. When I started calling out the Tesla short sellers for their smear campaign against Tesla, they turned the smear campaign on me. They falsely claimed that I was a pedophile, that I had child pornography, filed false police reports against me, doxxed me, and they've been suing me and Elon for the last 6+ years. You have no idea what these people are capable of and how much they work together to manipulate public perception. Think about it. Why is there so much effort put into making you hate Tesla, a company that makes electric cars that keep the air in your community clean? Utility scale batteries that help bring our grid to the 21st century? Why do we need to hate safe, fun, and fast cars with cutting edge AI built in? Why is so much effort put into fighting Tesla and not the oil companies, the legacy automakers, the healthcare companies, or so many other industries that rip people off? Question what you hear, dig a little deeper, and do your own research. Just take a test drive and experience the products for yourself and the propaganda starts to fall apart pretty quickly.

After 6,000+ miles, FSD has officially warped my brain. I now inherently trust FSD more than my own perception. Today, when my @cybertruck made a couple unexpected moves during a 350-mile trip, I asked myself “What does FSD see that I’m missing?” instead of questioning “Why did it do that?” Both times it was reacting to things before I was aware of them. Thanks, @Tesla_AI — Awesome work!

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This 2003 lecture from Elon Musk at Stanford University is an absolute gem The vision he had for what the internet and SpaceX would become all eventually came true Just goes to show how far ahead of his time he really was

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The greatest miscalculation the legacy auto industry ever made was doubting Elon's approach to Full Self-Driving For years, Wall Street aggressively shorted Tesla, and the legacy auto industry laughed. They confidently declared that Elon Musk’s approach to autonomy would fail Today, they are realizing they are completely stuck Here is how Elon solved the toughest problem in tech: The First Principles Approach: Elon admitted that FSD turned out to be exponentially harder than anyone expected. Because to solve self-driving, you aren't just writing code.....you basically have to recreate human biology in digital form Think about it: The entire global road system is designed to work for humans. We drive using optical sensors (our eyes) and a biological neural net (our brain) The Vision-Only Breakthrough: While legacy auto relied on expensive crutches like LiDAR, pre-mapped routes, and hard-coded rules, Elon looked at the real world. He knew that if an AI couldn't make decisions entirely on its own, it would eventually encounter edge cases and freeze Tesla took a path everyone deemed impossible: Vision-only, end-to-end neural networks The result was insane The industry that said "it will never work" is now scrambling. They completely misunderstood the problem, and now they are stuck a decade behind. Tesla has achieved what the rest of the automotive world couldn't even comprehend Today, most people using Tesla FSD are blown away by the way it makes a decision just like a human would All achieved with pure vision

I do not drive anymore. Tesla Self-Driving does over 99% of my driving, and the only disengaging I do is for small nav issues and parking preferences (which I assume will get resolved in 14.3). How is the world not freaking out about FSD? I cannot believe how good it has gotten, yet I still don’t hear anyone outside of “our bubble” talking about it.

Ahoy mateys! From all of us landlubbers at the Stash, Bon Voyage. Have a blast memory-making. Take lots of pics and please stop in when you get back and share some salty stories from the high seas. 🌊 🚢

This shot from NFL Films is unbelievable

FSD and the Misunderstanding of “Reasoning” There has been a stadium-sized misunderstanding around “reasoning” as the solution to the long tail of autonomous driving scenarios. This misunderstanding was pushed front and center by Jensen Huang’s recent CES comments about Alpamayo. I don’t think Jensen meant “reasoning” as a literal bolt-on module, but the way it was presented strongly suggests that adding reasoning, however implemented, solves the hardest remaining autonomy problems. “Alpamayo brings reasoning to autonomous vehicles, allowing them to think through rare scenarios, drive safely in complex environments, and explain their driving decisions—it’s the foundation for safe, scalable autonomy.” — Jensen Huang, CES 2026 The implication is that the long tail is primarily a reasoning deficit: that current systems lack the ability to “think through” rare or complex situations, and that introducing reasoning closes that gap. That framing is still misleading. There is a common notion that Tesla’s FSD advantage is mainly fleet data collection— that FSD improves by seeing more scenarios, while competitors can approach parity by incorporating stronger reasoning models. In this view, Tesla has data, others have reasoning, and the two converge. But FSD v14 is a reasoning engine. Reasoning in autonomous driving is not merely symbolic logic, chain-of-thought, or abstract problem solving layered on top of perception. It is the learned ability to select safe, legal, and socially correct trajectories in a constrained, adversarial, and deeply human environment. That reasoning is not programmed. It is learned, through imitation and reinforcement. It emerges from encoding billions of real driving scenarios into a neural system that internalizes how actions lead to outcomes. Given live sensory input, the system reasons by projecting futures based on an enormous learned prior of real-world driving behavior. The “thinking” is embedded in the weights of the model, not expressed as explicit steps. This is why data is not merely additive—it is foundational. Driving is not governed by clean physical laws alone; it is governed by conventions, edge cases, and unwritten social rules. You cannot reason about that domain without first learning it at scale. Tesla’s FSD is already a general-purpose driving intelligence. It does not need a new reasoning layer to handle rare scenarios, it generalizes across them because the reasoning emerges from the data itself. Reasoning does not replace the long tail. The long tail creates the reasoning.

I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive! I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles) This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2 with absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind even for all parking including at Tesla Superchargers.

NEWS: @DavidMoss has just set a new record by officially surpassing 10,000 consecutive miles on Tesla FSD (Supervised) V14 with no interventions. True 100% FSD usage. He’s currently on track today to be the first person to complete a coast-to-coast drive (LA → FL) entirely on FSD, without a single intervention🔥

Finally the press is getting what I've been saying here for years. The @waymo customers tell me the future. They tell me over and over again: 1. I'm never buying another car. 2. I'm never driving again. 3. I'm never taking an Uber again. Next year this all will be obvious to everyone. I, and others, took so much shit for trying to warn people about Tesla's lead for years. I had one post about how Tesla was leading and how our driving technology was changing years ago get tens of thousands of haters here on X. They said things like "I love to drive." Or "you need LiDARs." Or "Elon is evil." My own brother still believes these three things, despite me giving him a ride in my robot for hours. Next year everyone will change, I'm seeing signs of it everywhere since I talk with the Tesla community so often. But in three years what we believe about transportation will be dramatically different than it is today. By the way, the haters just disappear. They very rarely apologize for being wrong. It's something I've noticed hundreds of times in my career. Remember a million people protested the news feed when Zuckerberg first turned that on. All the traditional automakers killed their projects. VW even has its name on the building where @waymo started at Stanford University and then refused to put AI computers and cameras in all of its cars, saying its customers didn't want them. Same at Mercedes, Ford, and others. GM bought Cruise, but refused to switch to a camera-only vehicle and then gave up after it had an ethical lapse and didn't report an accident properly. But I told everyone here they were headed in the wrong direction years before they gave up. And so many gave me shit for that. Well, next year the world will change and all the Tesla haters can just go pound sand. It, alone, is the only one bringing life-saving technology to everyone. I have two in my garage already. Waymo still isn't on my street and when it does come (any day now, they already announced it) it'll have a product that doesn't have as good an experience as Tesla has in its Robotaxi. "But there are still drivers in Tesla," the haters now are saying. But by the end of next year (I predict by April) that no longer will be true. And then we will be in a new world. Even the press is starting to wake up to that now.

Review of @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the WSJ: "Driving has always felt like a chore to me. The first time I let the vehicle (Model Y) take control, something shifted. As the car guided itself through traffic, I felt tension melt away. A few days before the federal EV tax credit expired in September, I traded in my 7.5 year-old Model 3 for a Model Y with FSD. For someone like me, who likes to stay in control, surrender has never come easily. Yet here I was, cruising through traffic in quiet surrender to the car’s code and sensors. It felt like liberation. And now I have something better than a chauffeur. My car never tires, panics or wavers; it doesn’t jolt at brake lights or grumble at traffic jams. It simply drives, with quiet confidence and near-perfect composure. People often worry that technology makes us lazy. Maybe it does. But in my case, it has done something subtler: It taught me to trust in the rhythm of the ride. It’s a small miracle I never expected from a car."

@thatsKAIZEN That's been me for the past 4 years... the past year has been so solid, and 14.x has finally crossed the line where I know it is seeing and reacting to things before I am, consistently. I honestly don't think people are aware of what has so fundamentally shifted.

Full Self Driving is an upgrade in every way: - I can be present in conversations with friends while driving. - I get more work done. - I can explore complex ideas with AI. - Driving is less stressful, especially in cities. 95% of my driving is automated - it’s that good.

Elon said he’s 100% sure they’ve solved FSD, and it’s funny because you know at this point a lot of people don’t listen to him when he says this, because many are so conditioned to hearing “it’s almost ready” without it ending up happening. But if you’re one of the few sitting in these cars now testing 14, you have that “holy shit, my team is about to win the superbowl” excitement inside of you. 14.1 has comfort issues, but you’re sitting there realizing every single drive that you don’t need to do anything ever. Even when you do take over to avoid comfort related stuff, it’s really optional and not safety related. And it seems like 14.2 has addressed all of these things. V13 was flawless almost always, but with the launch of V14, it has just become so crystal clear that the software is safer than the average human. So crystal clear that your overall probability of collision is lower when it’s active. Already felt that way in 13, but with a smooth 14, this feeling will be mainstream. It’s just so undeniable after you’ve gotten a few thousand miles under your belt. I can’t believe they did it. This is the most insane shit ever. I’ve never seen such a mind-blowing, life-saving, world changing tech so close to completion before the majority of the public even has a clue it exists at all. It really feels like I’m Gary Hobson from the show Early Edition, walking around Chicago with tomorrow’s newspaper 😂

I took delivery of a beautiful new shiny HW4 Tesla Model X today, so I immediately took it out for an FSD test drive, a bit like I used to do almost daily for 5 years. Basically... I'm amazed - it drives really, really well, smooth, confident, noticeably better than what I'm used to on HW3 (my previous car) and eons ahead of the version I remember driving up highway 280 on my first day at Tesla ~9 years ago, where I had to intervene every time the road mildly curved or sloped. (note this is v13, my car hasn't been offered the latest v14 yet) On the highway, I felt like a passenger in some super high tech Maglev train pod - the car is locked in the center of the lane while I'm looking out from Model X's higher vantage point and its panoramic front window, listening to the (incredible) sound system, or chatting with Grok. On city streets, the car casually handled a number of tricky scenarios that I remember losing sleep over just a few years ago. It negotiated incoming cars in tight lanes, it gracefully went around construction and temporarily in-lane stationary cars, it correctly timed tricky left turns with incoming traffic from both sides, it gracefully gave way to the car that went out of order in the 4-way stop sign, it found a way to squeeze into a bumper to bumper traffic to make its turn, it overtook the bus that was loading passengers but still stopped for the stop sign that was blocked by the bus, and at the end of the route it circled around a parking lot, found a spot and... parked. Basically a flawless drive. For context, I'm used to going out for a brief test drive around the neighborhood to return with 20 clips of things that could be improved. It's new for me to do just that and exactly like I used to, but come back with nothing. Perfect drive, no notes. I expect there's still more work for the team in the long march of 9s, but it's just so cool to see that we're beyond finding issues on any individual ~1 hour drive around the neighborhood, you actually have to go to the fleet and mine them. Back then, I processed the incredible promise of vehicle autonomy at scale (in the fully scaleable, vision only, end-to-end Tesla way) only intellectually, but now it is possible to feel it intuitively too if you just go out for a drive. Wait, of course surround video stream at 60Hz processed by a fully dedicated "driving brain" neural net will work, and it will be so much better and safer than a human driver. Did anyone else think otherwise? I also watched @aelluswamy 's new ICCV25 talk last week (x.com/aelluswamy/sta…) that hints at some of the recent under the hood technical components driving this progress. Sensor streams (videos, maps, kinematics, audio, ...) over long contexts (e.g. ~30 seconds) go into a big neural net, steering/acceleration comes out, optionally with visualization auxiliary data. This is the dream of the complete Software 1.0 -> Software 2.0 re-write that scales fully with data streaming from millions of cars in the fleet and the compute capacity of your chip, not some engineer's clever new DoubleParkedCarHandler C++ abstraction with undefined test-time characteristics of memory and runtime. There's a lot more hints in the video on where things are going with the emerging "robotics+AI at scale stack". World reconstructors, world simulators "dreaming" dynamics, RL, all of these components general, foundational, neural net based, how the car is really just one kind of robot... are people getting this yet? Huge congrats to the team - you're building magic objects of the future, you rock! And I love my car <3.