Kevin Wimer
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@kevinace
Serial entrepreneur. Pilot. Ex-pro gamer. Angel Investor (330+). Father/husband. July 2024 stage 4 🫁 cancer diagnosis changed my life.
🚨 The NHTSA said it was upgrading a probe into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) platform to an “engineering analysis” It will examine 3.2 million vehicles and aims to determine its effectiveness in evaluating degraded road conditions
My beloved mobile charger that came with my Cybertruck doesn’t seem to be working anymore. It flashes a little bit of red when you first plug it in, then it goes away. When you try to charge a Tesla it gives an error “charging equipment not recognized.” This happens with multiple Teslas and it happens with both the 14-50 and 5-15 adapters. Tesla Wall Connector charges just fine so it seems to be the mobile connector itself specifically. Is there a reset switch on this thing somewhere? Or I likely need to get a replacement? At almost two years old am I covered for a replacement or do I need to buy a new one? Help @grok
Tesla FSD v14.3 is currently in testing and will go for a wide release “in a few weeks,” Elon says v14.3 could be sentient, hoping for big improvements and strides with that version
A fleet of R2 Robotaxis is coming exclusively to @Uber. ⚡🌿 Today, we announced a partnership to help both companies accelerate their autonomous vehicle plans across 25 cities in the US, Canada and Europe by the end of 2031. rivn.co/uber
if you love America, are high agency, and love building, come work at Palantir
Terafab may be the most essential vertical integration Tesla has ever undertaken— and it is truly non-optional. It will take years to build and will test even Elon’s speedrunning abilities to the limit, but that won’t stop him from trying. The breakthrough likely lies in overhauling the overall facility’s cleanroom model. By moving wafers in sealed pods with localized micro-environments, the fab no longer needs a monolithic ultra-clean space. Elon’s line about “eating cheeseburgers and smoking cigars” on the fab floor isn’t silly, it’s the practical reality of a radically simpler, cheaper, faster approach that could finally change the economics of chipmaking. This is all forced by the brutal “pinch” in chip supply. Tesla must produce on the order of 100–200 billion AI chips per year just to saturate its roadmap. That volume powers: FSD cars & Robotaxis (tens of millions of vehicles needing AI5 inference for near-perfect autonomy), Physical Optimus (scaling from thousands today to millions per year, each requiring AI5/AI6-level compute), Digital Optimus (the new xAI-Tesla software agents for digital/office automation, running massive inference clusters), Space-based data centers (AI7/Dojo3 orbital compute for GW-scale training and inference beyond Earth limits). AI5 delivers the ~10× leap for vehicles and early robots; AI6 shifts focus to Optimus + terrestrial DCs; AI7 goes orbital. No external foundry (TSMC, Samsung, etc.) can deliver that scale or timeline— hence the Terafab launch. Without it, the entire robotics + autonomy future hits a brick wall. Terafab isn’t optional; it’s the only way forward.
Update on CT PCS failures. Spoke with my service team today and they said they’ve seen an influx of PCS replacements lately. Said Tesla is “looking into it” but not preemptively replacing yet. He thinks there is some sort of “fuse issue” but didn’t know much. 11k VIN FS AWD , 11k miles no PCS issues yet - Flat Flex Cable Harness (precautionary replacement in 24) - VC Left computer replaced at 10k miles - No PCS issue yet Fingers crossed Tesla starts replacing PCS on early CT’s for piece of mind. Don’t really trust it on a road trip with my family until more info comes out.
Finally showed up on my truck
Well fuck. Was just getting ready to max charge to 100% for the storm coming tomorrow that will likely take out our power. 😡
