Randalf the High Contrast

@parthfullstack @elonmusk Very true, for any advance or change you'll have people focus only on the small amount of bad

@rustolio @elonmusk I think my comment got misread. I wasn’t criticizing. Tech gets judged by failures, not impact. Still rooting for the 90%+ making the world better.

Tesla self-driving saves a lot of lives – the statistics are unequivocal. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect, of course. Even when we improve safety 10X, saving 90% of the million lives lost in auto accidents every year, Tesla will still get sued for the 10% who did die. The 90% who are still alive mostly won’t even know that Tesla saved them. Nonetheless, it is the right thing to do.

@parthfullstack @elonmusk It's not really that interesting. The drainers, complainers and blamers will always try to bring down everyone else. Don't be one of them

@elonmusk The Interesting thing is that the media and most of the world will look only at the 10% and rant that self-driving cars are bad, useless, and should not be used.

@Jojosdojo To be fair car salesman generally don't know anything about ice cars either

Horrific conversation in a Skoda dealership just now about electric cars: Me: so how long does the battery last? Rep: about 100k / 8yrs Me: then you swap the battery? Rep: nope. Swap the car. The battery is built into the floor.

@HorzaGobuchuI @hamids Fisker Ocean owners have quietly left the chat

@hamids I don’t buy a car from a company close to bankruptcy

$TSLA Model Y Performance vs. $RIVN R2 Performance Launch Edition This is waaay better pricing than I expected for launch! R2 Performance launch is basically the same price as a Model Y, but: - R2 gives you serious off-road capabilities. Model Y does not. - R2 gives you a driver's screen with essentials so you don't have to look to the center to see speed/etc. This is a concern for a lot of drivers. - R2 Launch edition includes Autonomy+ for Free, which has a $2,500 price tag and currently gives you hands-off driving. Tesla no longer includes Autopilot without the purchase of FSD, so this is a pretty big deal! It means R2 has more self-driving capabilities included than Model Y. - Tesla has FSD options for an extra $99/month. Rivian currently does not have point-to-point driving. However, it's worth noting that fewer than 20% of Tesla owners choose to buy FSD.

@sashayanshin 90% of my vacations are with just me and my wife, so I always rent an Airbnb for 12 people.

90% of car trips are made with 2 passengers or less. Therefore the Tesla Robotaxi only needs 2 seats. 90% of the time I spend at home I don’t eat, so I replaced my kitchen at home with a big office. If I get hungry, I can just get takeout. 90% of the time I use my phone, I don’t use the camera, so my new phone doesn’t have a camera and comes with only 8GB of storage. If I need to take a photo, I can just use the DSLR. 90% of each day I don’t lift heavy weights so might as well just get fat and weak. If I need to lift a weight, I can ask someone else to do it. 90% of the time I don’t wear a suit. So I threw mine away. If I need one, I can always just rent one from a shop.

@ggreenwald @TaylorLorenz 1. Platforms like x and meta will lose advertising dollars since the people won't be there any more. 2. It will have a chilling effect on public discourse, amplifying official narratives and silencing the opinions of regular people.

@ggreenwald @TaylorLorenz The effect will be that the vast majority of people will no longer participate in social media. Most people will gravitate to platforms that won't require id whatever they may be.

Countries are passing laws requiring state ID in order to use social media ("protecting kids" is the pretext), but the real effect is to track everyone online . It upsets some when I say it, but @TaylorLorenz has been one of the few reporting on and warning about this danger.

@gpooley @MarioNawfal Well 100% of the parts move. That's kind of the point

@MarioNawfal And they have 100x fewer parts than a Toyota. x.com/gpooley/status…

🇺🇸 Tesla just smoked everyone in JD Power’s 2026 EV Owner Satisfaction survey. Model 3 took number 1 with an 804 score, Model Y grabbed #2 at 797. They crushed the BMWs and left the rest in the dust. Superchargers are also pushing public charging satisfaction to all-time highs. Tesla’s winning. Source: @Teslarati

Never give up on humanity. Was driving through Davie County and saw this. Found out the Amish are taking the wild horses in their communities under their wing, or should I say roof, by building mobile shelters for the horses.

@elonmusk But can I play the philosophy game on grokipedia?

Try Grokipedia.com. It’s awesome.

@theamelia__ Not true, my parents didn't tell me to be home before dark

@LeighWolf @BladeoftheS Good way to crash the entire market. Now everybody is poor

@BladeoftheS Who are you selling their companies to to convert their stock into cash that can be used?

If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue. It would affect only 173 People. Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades. It‘s time for payback.

@TjJinson @DaingenKeltoi @Thewhitesmoke That's not how it's supposed to work. Cars should occupy both lanes up until the point of the merger, then merge together one at a time. If the authorities wanted the traffic to merge 3 miles back they would have put the cones 3 miles back.

@DaingenKeltoi @Thewhitesmoke I agree with this perspective, but when I slow you down on the left lane to start the legitimate zipper effect don't lose your patience and try and get all road rage on me.

Is this the guy doing merging the right way, the wrong way, or the guy everybody hates?

@Jesii_ca_M Probably plenty of them where you're at in South Asia

Where can I find a man like this?

@ninaturner @elonmusk Now do Boeing and Lockheed Martin and the countless other faceless corporations that have been sucking off the government teet for decades. At least SpaceX delivers value.

Alright. No more subsidies for billionaires or their corporations. Time to either cut off or nationalize SpaceX, @elonmusk.

@4TaxFairness It's not real money, stupid. If he tried to sell it all today, not only would he only get a tiny fraction of that figure, but it would cascade and crash the entire market.

One guy has $600 billion—and two-thirds of millennials are locked out of the housing market. That one guy is going to pay almost no taxes on his $600 billion because it's "unrealized"—but the millennials who can't afford homes pay taxes with every paycheck. We're being scammed.

@RBReich That $600 billion isn't real money. If Elon musk tried to sell his entire position at Tesla, the stock price would drop probably to 20 percent of what it is today and he would he get $100 billion tops.

Elon Musk’s net worth has now surpassed $600 billion, just weeks after Tesla approved his 10-year, $1 trillion pay package. That could amount to $100 billion per year — more than 1.4 million elementary school teachers’ paychecks combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

@Matt_Pinner How to tell different types of trees from quite a long ways away

Apparently if you’re right-brained you see a rabbit, if you’re left-brained you see a turtle. What do you see

@niccruzpatane Amazing to think that as self driving ARE becoming a reality, companies like Uber and Lyft will be considered legacy companies. The world is changing fast

Lyft CEO thinks there is ‘zero likelihood’ self-driving cars will replace human drivers in any reasonable timeframe. That will be the case for years and years and years to come,” he said. The car manufacturers aren’t entirely ready. The technology isn’t entirely ready for fog or snow or heavy rain or whatever it is. People, riders aren’t necessarily excited about it, and regulators aren’t necessarily enthusiastic about it in every place. Customers won’t demand it. They’ll just say, I don’t want to get in a self-driving car. Today, these cost maybe $250,000 to $300,000, a very expensive product, whereas a Prius or Corolla is maybe $30,00 or $40,000.”

@Aurelien_Gz Cleaning could be crowd sourced. Send ten cars to my house between the hours of 8 and 12 and I'll clean them for a fee.

i spent years working with car on demand companies to improve their user experience, and one of the largest source of user frustration we consistently saw in the feedback was the cleanliness of the vehicles What we observed was incredibly consistent: once a car is even slightly dirty, people feel less responsible and start pushing boundaries. This is the Broken Windows Theory in action, where visible disorder encourages more disorder, especially when there is no one around to enforce norms And the mess is not just what cameras can capture. They can detect obvious things like trash or abandoned food, but they often miss the smaller details that users still react to, like dog hair too fine or out of frame, fingerprints, or tiny debris. At the time, we also had no way to reliably detect odors such as cigarettes, weed, or strong food smells. What could actually help in autonomous fleets is the combination of interior cameras that recognize behavior patterns, like someone smoking or eating, plus smoke detectors. Together, these could trigger an immediate response, such as stopping the ride or sending a warning to the passenger before the situation escalates. One thing that did help was asking riders to confirm whether the car was clean when they entered. This taps into the consistency principle. Once someone acknowledges a clean environment, they are more likely to keep it that way. And when Rider A says “clean” and Rider B a few minutes later says “dirty”, it becomes a strong signal that something happened in between Operationally, the toughest challenge has always been real-time cleaning. Deploying human teams across a city does not scale. That is why sensors, interior monitoring, and now autonomous cleaning systems being tested, like the one recently presented by Tesla, are such a big deal. They finally address one of the core UX bottlenecks in autonomous fleets