Will
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Will
@WillBA2022
Trying to be kind to others. Uses sarcasm sparingly.
Earth Sumali Kasım 2022
8 Sinusundan235 Mga Tagasunod
NEWS: Starting today, owners of Dodge, Jeep, Ram, FIAT and Maserati EVs in North America can now officially use @Tesla's Supercharger network with more than 27,500 charging stalls.
Updated list of automakers that have access to Tesla's Supercharger network:
• Acura
• Audi
• BMW
• Ford
• General Motors
• Genesis
• Honda
• Hyundai
• JLR
• Kia
• Lucid
• Mercedes
• Nissan
• Polestar
• Porsche
• Rivian
• Stellantis
• Subaru
• Toyota
• Volkswagen
• Volvo
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@realWaltM @FoxNews Google, uber, rivian, many other companies, and other people within TSLA ( not just Elon) also think it’s a good idea.
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@FoxNews Does anyone beside Elon Musk think that self-driving cars are a good idea?? Now imagine a tank truck with ten thousand gallons of gasoline hurtling along on I-80 driven by a computer at 80 mph. What could possibly go wrong???
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'TERRIFYING': Dashcam video shows the moment a Tesla Cybertruck, allegedly operating in self-driving mode, nearly sent a Houston mom and her infant off a bridge before violently crashing into an overpass barrier.
The woman claims she suffered multiple injuries from the incident and is now suing the automaker for $1 million.
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@JCChristopher @elonmusk What model are you driving . That steering wheel looks too big to be a 3 or Y.
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I went to the exact same location of the Cybertruck accident shown in the Fox News video. This is the US-69/59 Eastex Freeway northbound HOV lane at the Y-split near the Eastex Park & Ride exit (approaching from downtown Houston toward Humble). In the Fox News video, the vehicle failed to follow the right curve, going straight into the barrier.
Well, I tested it twice today with Tesla FSD engaged the entire time with zero human intervention. And unless you think I am a hologram speaking to you from another dimension now, it worked out really well. Here is the video of me taking the exact same curve twice, with Tesla FSD v14.2.2.5.
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Tesla’s forthcoming AI5 uses a half-reticle design, which is crucial for yield. A reticle defines the imaging area of a lithography machine, fitting two chips per shot effectively doubles yield.
This means the Tesla chip design team had to carefully manage die features, for instance dropping the older ISP (and classic GPU) to make room for more AI cores.
By contrast, NVIDIA’s Blackwell fills nearly a full reticle, making it a single-reticle design.
If Tesla hits its compute and efficiency targets with AI5 in this half-reticle format, it’s almost like cutting fab requirements in half.
And this has a big impact on Terafab, especially if it carries forward for AI6, AI7, etc.
phil beisel@pbeisel
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.
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@robertpaulbeck1 @VictoriaZeev @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX In fact, isaacsons book goes into the fact that other space contracts are cost-plus, meaning costs can quickly spiral out of control
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@VictoriaZeev @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Typically i would agree with you. In the SpaceX example, they have created a unique value proposition that no other company in the world can match. There is a reason theyy have 90% of the space launch industry.
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I hate when people say @SpaceX is simply handed government contracts. No, SpaceX earns those contracts. They offer the lowest price, the best product and they execute.
The Pentagon said last year that SpaceX has saved the government over $40 billion. One SLS launch costs billions, while one SpaceX launch costs ~$75M.
SpaceX is an example of great American innovation, something that all Americans should cheer on.
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@InAbundance99 @IAmBenJames @pmarca Look at Andreesons post. He wasn’t talking about introspection. Any reasonable person would concur that introspection is a good thing, even vital
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@WillBA2022 @IAmBenJames @pmarca But why? How did that even become part of the discussion when the topic was introspection?
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It is 100% true that great men and women of the past were not sitting around moaning about their feelings. I regret nothing.
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@SawyerMerritt It’s amazing that it takes multiple companies to start to do what Tesla is already doing.
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NEWS: NVIDIA has announced that BYD, Geely, Isuzu and Nissan will use the company's DRIVE Hyperion platform to develop level 4 autonomous vehicle programs.
Nvidia also introduced Alpamayo 1.5, "an upgrade that expands NVIDIA Alpamayo — an open portfolio of AI models, simulation frameworks and physical AI datasets for building safe, transparent, reasoning-based AVs — with an interactive, steerable reasoning model."
Jensen Huang: The autonomous vehicle revolution is here, the first multitrillion-dollar robotics industry. Everything that moves will eventually be autonomous. The NVIDIA Hyperion platform and our Alpamayo open reasoning models give vehicles the ability to perceive their surroundings, reason through complex situations and act safely, making scalable, level 4 autonomy possible.”
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@IAmBenJames @pmarca But there are truly people who sit around moaning about their feelings. They’re often not self aware at all. That’s who he is referring to.
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@pmarca I hope you're not truly confusing practices of self-awareness and emotional well-being with "sitting around moaning about their feelings."
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@quiet_oldman @electricfuture5 Don’t work , it’s just a gimmick. Like the noise cancelling headrest thing. Any Tesla audio system is already awesome.
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Model YL has new sound system setting. Immersive Sound X. This is NOT on the new Y and 3
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt 2017 model doesn’t have the latest FSD tho, does it?
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@WillBA2022 @SawyerMerritt I thought about it but my car is paid for with free FSD and free super charging so can’t make myself make that bad of a financial decision
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Zen Grey Interior in the Model Y L
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
NEWS: Tesla has officially announced that the larger Model Y L is coming to Australia and New Zealand.
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt Maybe you ought to buy the 2026 model S if you don’t want to downgrade to 3 an Y. The FSD on HW4 is incredible.
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@WillBA2022 @SawyerMerritt Btw I have a 2017 p100d and it’s the most amazing ride in this world. Don’t want to have to downgrade to a 3 (not enough room) or Y (not sexy enough even though I love it) as the next car. Roadster will be amazing but too flashy. CyberTruck is badass but no sir on the design.
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt I have a 2016 model S 75 . It drives so smooth like a hovercraft. In some ways I prefer the drive over my wife’s 2024 model S. Even though 10 years old, it looks simulataneously timeless and modern. I wish Tesla still made the leather steering wheel. The new ones feel plasticky.
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt Also the S is a close to perfect design. What kind of refresh did you envision? Steer by wire?
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@WillBA2022 @SawyerMerritt Ok, they want to build exciting products, then give the Model X or Model S the proper ‘refresh’ & not a half ass refresh & sell way more cars than the roadster will & be all about sustainable energy. Now we have 2 older not that ‘sexy’ cars with the 3/Y and a CEO only roadster🤦🏻♂️
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt I would love to see them keep the S around. But it’s clear they are going all in on robotaxi, autonomy, and robotics. I don’t think car sales will be a big part of their future as it is now. The company will look very different in 5 years.
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt It’s a halo car. They want to build exciting products. But it’s obvious the roadster is not a priority.
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@WillBA2022 @SawyerMerritt Ok Will, then explain to me why they are making the Roadster? It won’t sell to anyone but the very rich. It’s in no way accelerating sustainable energy. So you were saying about some mission?
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@404Wolfpack @SawyerMerritt They are not trying to be elitist. Their mission is to accelerate sustainable energy to the masses
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@SawyerMerritt It’s an awesome family car but it’s not ‘sexy’ like the Model X and Tesla will lose a lot of higher end buyers because they have no other viable option now. 🤦🏻♂️
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NEWS: Honda announced it expects to report its first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a public company in the fiscal year ending March 2026, after recording a $15.7 billion write-down tied to its EV business.
Honda is also cancelling three EVs, including the Acura RSX, that were set to launch in the U.S., blaming tariffs and rising competition from Chinese EV companies, which effectively means that the company is cancelling its entire EV sub-brand.
“The situation changed far more rapidly than we expected,” CEO Toshihiro Mibe said. “The suspension of EV subsidies in North America undercut growth, and competition in China meant we couldn’t provide attractive models or maintain our competitive edge.”
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@SawyerMerritt This guy just can’t not copy Tesla step for step lol
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NEWS: Mind Robotics, a startup founded by Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, has raised $500 million.
"Mind is focused on building the world’s leading industrial robotics platform, capable of performing dexterous, variable, and reasoning-intensive tasks. Existing industrial robotics can perform repeatable, dimensionally stable tasks, but a large share of industrial value-add work requires human-like dexterity, adaptation, and physical reasoning that classical robotics cannot address. We are building AI-powered robots—models, hardware, and deployment infrastructure—that will perform real tasks, in real plants, at real scale."
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