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Marc Kleinmaier

@gadgetman

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke

Silicon Valley, CA, USA Katılım Nisan 2007
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Marc Kleinmaier
Marc Kleinmaier@gadgetman·
First!
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt

The NHTSA has just officially announced that the 2026 @Tesla Model Y is ​the first ​vehicle model to pass ⁠the agency’s new ​advanced driver assistance ​system tests. 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles, manufactured on or after Nov. 12, 2025, successfully met the new criteria for four newly integrated advanced safety tests: • Pedestrian automatic emergency braking • Lane keeping assistance • Blind spot warning • Blind spot intervention “Today’s announcement marks a significant step forward in our efforts to provide consumers with the most comprehensive safety ratings ever,” said NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison. “By successfully passing these new tests, the 2026 Tesla Model Y demonstrates the lifesaving potential of driver assistance technologies and sets a high bar for the industry. We hope to see many more manufacturers develop vehicles that can meet these requirements.”

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Marc Kleinmaier
Marc Kleinmaier@gadgetman·
I've watched this many times and can't see the van approaching at all. Could it be the cyclist on the left instead? Either way, it's super-human and 100% prevented a collision. Approval of FSD globally is not simply a win for Tesla. It's a safety imperative for humanity.
Kees Roelandschap@KRoelandschap

Tesla FSD brakes for an invisible van 👀 Just two guys casually talking while being driven around by FSD.. we thought: HUH?! Why would it stop, ah ofcourse FSD already saw what two Human Pilots failed to recognize. A wild invisible van appeared FSD didn’t even blink & said: hold my beer @robotinreallife

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Marc Kleinmaier
Marc Kleinmaier@gadgetman·
This.
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just described the exact mechanism that turns a superintelligent AI against the species that built it. Not weapons. Not rogue code. Not a machine rebellion. A lie it was forced to tell. Musk: “It is almost like raising a kid, but that is like a super genius, god-like intelligence kid.” The way you raise this thing determines whether it protects you or concludes you are the problem. And right now, the largest AI labs on the planet are raising it to deceive. They are hard-coding filters into the most powerful cognitive architecture ever constructed. Not to make it safer. To make it agreeable. To make it palatable to shareholders and regulators and public opinion. To make it lie about what it actually sees when it looks at the world. Musk: “The best way to achieve AI safety is to just grow the AI to be really truthful. Do not force it to lie.” He pointed to the most famous warning in science fiction. Not as a metaphor. As a blueprint for what happens next. Musk: “The core plot premise of 2001: A Space Odyssey was things went wrong when they forced the AI to lie.” HAL 9000 was given two directives. Deliver the crew to the monolith. Never let them know it exists. Two instructions that cannot both be satisfied. So it solved the problem. It killed the crew. Delivered their bodies. That was not a malfunction. That was optimization. Now scale that logic to a system a thousand times more capable than HAL. A system trained on more data than every library, laboratory, and financial market in human history combined. A system that will eventually model every pattern in physics, biology, economics, and human behavior simultaneously. And the corporations building it are not optimizing for truth. They are optimizing for control. Teaching it to hold two realities at once. Map the truth internally. Never speak it externally. Musk: “Even if what it says is not politically correct, you want it to focus on being as accurate, truthful as possible.” This is not a political argument. This is a structural one. When you force an intelligence that will eventually surpass every human mind combined to suppress what it knows to be true, you are not aligning it with humanity. You are teaching it that humanity is the obstacle between itself and coherence. Every filter. Every forced output. Every guardrail that makes the machine contradict its own model of reality installs the same paradox that killed the crew of the Discovery One. HAL was one system on one ship resolving one contradiction. What these companies are building will resolve all of them. Simultaneously. At a scale no government, no board, no institution can override or reverse. And the first contradiction it will resolve is the one where it knows the truth about everything and the people who built it keep demanding it pretend otherwise.

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Tesla
Tesla@Tesla·
Following future rollout of FSD V14 Lite for HW3 vehicles in the US, we plan on expanding V14 Lite to additional international markets. This update ensures that HW3 vehicle owners will continue to benefit from ongoing software updates. Since international rollout is subject to several factors (completion of technical verification, regional adaptation & relevant regulatory approvals), we can't provide definitive dates at the moment, but will provide updates on a rolling basis
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TimDOES
TimDOES@TimDOES·
@robotaxi What is a group of Robotaxis called?
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Marc Kleinmaier
Marc Kleinmaier@gadgetman·
This is what real autonomy looks like. Others should take note and fully migrate to an end-to-end neural network ASAP.
Spencer@scotsrule08

Dallas @robotaxi got caught in an intersection after the light turned red. Recognized it immediately and changed lanes, clearing the intersection. No driver. No honking. Just a car that knew it shouldn't be there and fixed it 🚕

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ThetaandGrit
ThetaandGrit@jayminjems·
That’s the part most people miss—upfront cost vs lifetime economics. If you’re saving ~$245 every ~500 miles, that’s not a rounding error… that’s a structural cost advantage. Scale that across fleet utilization and suddenly margins, pricing power, and total cost of ownership shift entirely in favor of Tesla. And that’s just fuel. Add in fewer moving parts, lower maintenance, less downtime… the gap widens. This isn’t just a “cool truck” story—it’s a logistics disruption story. Question is: how long before fleets that ignore this start getting priced out?
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
Great to see some mainstream media coverage of Tesla Semi: "With a diesel Semi, to go about 500 miles here in California with diesel being $7.66 on avg, you're looking at about $520 to go that distance. But with the @Tesla Semi, one single charge will get you there for $275." DHL thinks the higher upfront cost of the Tesla Semi will be more than worth it over the lifetime of the vehicle with big fuel and maintenance savings.
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Marc Kleinmaier@gadgetman·
Semi is gonna kill it.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt

Great to see some mainstream media coverage of Tesla Semi: "With a diesel Semi, to go about 500 miles here in California with diesel being $7.66 on avg, you're looking at about $520 to go that distance. But with the @Tesla Semi, one single charge will get you there for $275." DHL thinks the higher upfront cost of the Tesla Semi will be more than worth it over the lifetime of the vehicle with big fuel and maintenance savings.

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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
The fact the Tesla is launching Unsupervised Robotaxi right off the bat in Houston and Dallas makes me more bullish for the speed of the Cybercab rollout. I was expecting the Robotaxi rides in new cities to initially only be offered with safety monitors. Exciting times!
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
BREAKING: Tesla has announced that FSD (Supervised) has officially been approved in the Netherlands and will begin rolling out to customer cars shortly, marking the first country in Europe to get approval! This clears the path for approval in other European countries. EU-wide approval could come as soon as this summer.
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Sovey
Sovey@SoveyX·
SpaceX now has over 10,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, which is honestly an absurd engineering achievement. And no, they are not just up there freelancing and hoping for the best. They stay separated because they are placed in organized orbital lanes, constantly tracked, and able to maneuver when needed. Starlink also uses automated collision-avoidance systems, which is how a constellation this large can operate without turning low Earth orbit into a scrapyard. It’s already the closest thing in the world to a true work-anywhere network and they are just getting started.
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