Jason Hess

The letter below is very good summary of the current situation. Future weapons must go underground or deep underwater, or be mass-produced and attritable. Radar-based stealth loses some relevancy when you are visually tracked by something all the time.

@PalmerLuckey @mattbramanti You mean you DON’T like gasoline that goes bad 3x faster and takes even more energy to produce? Heathen. It’s so bad for when it sits over long periods of time, and most people have no idea.

@mattbramanti More like banning ethanol blending to save land for better uses than government-subsidized corn fuel. Which I also support.

i hate junk mail as much as the next guy, but the trees argument is a bad one these trees are farmed; they're just crops like corn or raspberries or whatever banning junk mail to save trees is like banning fast food to save cattle

@tesla_na @Brand0n Not allowing these across trims is insane. Performance in Marine Blue would be amazing.

New blue paint options for Model 3 & Y Model 3 & Y Premium – Marine Blue Model 3 & Y Performance – Frost Blue

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink Still not low enough. Most GA pilots fly only a few hours per month. $100 is probably the highest reasonable monthly price. Hopefully SpaceX is paying attention and figures this out soon.

SpaceX has announced that it is lowering the price of @Starlink for small plane owners. There are two plans: General Aviation Local 50GB Plan: • Price: $200/month (down from $250) • Included Data: 50GB/month (up from 20GB before) • Supported In-Motion Speeds: Up to 480 km/h (300 mph) • Additional Data: $25 for 50GB (down from $10 per GB) • Coverage: Land, territorial waters, and within 12 nm General Aviation Global 50GB Plan: • Price: $1,000/month (same as before) • Included Data: 50GB/month (up from 20GB before) • Supported In-Motion Speeds: Up to 720 km/h (450 mph) • Additional Data: $100 for 50GB (down from $50 per GB) • Coverage: Land and ocean coverage

Looks like a Thorp T211 had an eventful landing at Sun N Fun. Luckily it doesn’t look like they got injured. Runway 10L and 10R currently closed.

@Erik_Slot @FredLambert You are assuming things. I have worked on many Tesla car computers. When I get a chance, I will show you the chips. The AG525R-GL modem supports eMMC, but really just for bootloader. Any logged network data would be long overwritten, and the modem would have prioritized eCall.

@jsonhess @FredLambert Quote: ‘Just so you know, the cell modem will not have any useful information.’ You are assuming things. You have no idea what chips store what data, unless you were the designer of that specific piece of hardware. Funny enough someone brought up MCAS. Hidden, undocumented tech.

Insane Tesla story coming out of Norway today. You probably forgot about this weird Tesla crash from 2023 where a Model Y taxi had two bizarre 'sudden acceleration' crashes in just a few seconds. The driver claimed the car accelerated on its own and he was pressing the brake pedal. Tesla claimed its data shows he was pressing the accelerator. The driver was charged, but the charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, and there are indeed some serious problems with the evidence. While Tesla did share some telemetry data, the automaker claimed that the last 6 seconds were somehow missing. It turned out that someone went inside the vehicle, opened up the onboard computer, and removed the network card, which an expert believes would hold critical evidence. Everyone involved claims not to know where the card is.

@CCOS @DataDeLaurier @FredLambert Trucks are heavier relative to the brake surface area, and brake fade is after long durations of braking due to hills. It doesn’t matter in these cases. The brakes are not overheated. They will slow down the vehicle if they get pressed.

@jsonhess @DataDeLaurier @FredLambert Never leaned about physics? You forget to add 2-3tons of moving mass. If you re right how can it be that trucks can burn out the breaks when running down hill?

Just fine. No leg days required, especially if you’re already pressing hard due to panicking from pressing the wrong pedal in the first place. Here’s the parking brake vs. ~300hp. If you want a detailed answer, you’re implying that multiple separate systems have failed in legitimately impossible ways. The pedal monitor would kill motor torque when brake pedal is detected, and if brake sensing is randomly broken (not possible), torque also gets killed. There are multiple sensors used on each pedal, with different voltage curves. There is no uncommanded acceleration, and there is no way for brakes to NOT be able to overcome the motors.

@jsonhess @schneider_chris @FredLambert Hey mr 'Tesla cannot accelerate uncommanded' how well and easily does unassisted physical breaking work in practise when the car is full on accelerating?

@CCOS @DataDeLaurier @FredLambert What will it take for you to admit that you are wrong? This is just the small parking brake vs. a ~300hp motor at ~75% power. I will repeat this again: the brakes (which have physical hydraulic connection) will always overpower the motors.

@jsonhess @DataDeLaurier @FredLambert If the software can breake it’s not fully mechanical.. no brake in a Car can hold back a 300hk electric motor

@CCOS @DataDeLaurier @FredLambert Please tell me how software keeps your physically connected brake pedal from functioning. Even with zero brake boost, you can stop a motor being given full throttle (which does not happen uncommanded).

@DataDeLaurier @jsonhess @FredLambert Still it's software.. and even uncertifed and untested software

@GYoursefl50011 @FredLambert So do the car logs. No useful info for the missing 6 seconds.

@jsonhess @FredLambert It would have the MEID number

@schneider_chris @flcnhvy @FredLambert For brakes, the Bosch iBooster used still has a physical pump for manual, unboosted braking. For brake-by-wire Ys (not the accident vehicle), there is sufficient software and electrical redundancy.

@flcnhvy @jsonhess @FredLambert In case of software failure there is no "priority". You can try to brake but have zero assist and have to work against the motor.

@schneider_chris @FredLambert I am very familiar. Of course the car can request throttle and brake boost. The car CANNOT override the physical brake pedal (which on this vehicle, is physically connected to the brake booster). On the newer brake-by-wire Ys, the circuits are fully independent and redundant.

@jsonhess @FredLambert Tesla allows for self drive. So it must have a way to accelerate without user intent. Also the pedals are connected via software. So an error in the software can override a brake pedal press.

@DMC_Ryan @CarnivoreMan @JoeTegtmeyer Skullcaps are the plastic covers on the mirrors.

@CarnivoreMan @JoeTegtmeyer It literally just said “skull cap” — I presume it’s a beanie but I could be wrong.

Tesla friends, here’s some fun news: Tesla is doing a final Signature Series run of Plaid Model S and X. 250 S, 100 X (6-seat only). Invite-only so if you didn’t get the email you can’t buy one. Celebration event (fittingly at sunset) sometime in May. I don’t have pricing but here are more details: -Garnet Red paint (with matching door handles on S) -Gold Tesla T badges on front -Signature badge on rear -Gold Plaid badge on rear -White interior w/alcantara & badging Gold Plaid seat badge w/gold piping -Carbon ceramic brakes on S w/gold calipers (regular red Plaid calipers on X) -Signature marked door sills -Signature dash badging with unique numbering plate (i.e. 1/250) -Gold Plaid puddle lights -Yoke steering -21” wheels (S)/22” wheels (X) -Special interior lighting sequence -Signature Edition key fob -Comes with black skull caps (guessing these have Signature logo on them but not sure) -Luxe Package included

@Robotbeat GB/T, which annoyingly has an AC and a DC version.

That looks like a Chademo charger??

@AnaEscobarShow It is completely normal to fly over the Savannah River Site as long as you’re above 2,000 feet. They were around 30,000 feet.

I wanna know why the Israel Air Force flew their spy plane over Americas most high-security nuclear facility?? This is restricted airspace. They did this in August

New Test Footage: AH-64 Apache attack helicopter executes rocket-powered launch of Altius-700. This is the first time an Apache has employed a launched effect.

@anduriltech Hell yeah, I like this one.