Ed retweeted
I keep seeing people say, “Everyone thought Elon Musk was crazy when he wanted to build electric cars and reusable rockets, too!”
But these are NOT the same thing.
When Elon was pushing electric cars, he was challenging the idea that EVs couldn’t compete with gasoline vehicles.
When he was pushing reusable rockets that could land themselves, he was challenging the idea that rockets had to be disposable.
Both were engineering challenges that could be solved through innovation.
But claiming that autonomous vehicles will eventually eliminate the need for personal car ownership is an entirely different argument.
That’s not just an engineering challenge. That’s a prediction about human behavior.
People don’t own cars simply because they have to drive them.
They own cars for convenience, freedom, privacy, flexibility, personal preference, and the ability to go wherever they want, whenever they want.
Self-driving technology could absolutely revolutionize transportation. I believe it will.
But there’s a MASSIVE difference between making cars that drive themselves and convincing the world that nobody will want to own one.
Just because Elon proved people wrong about EVs and rockets doesn’t mean every prediction he makes about the future is automatically correct.
Ed retweeted
That's why it needs to be a setting. My parents need accessible spots, but FSD shouldn't use one unless the driver is eligible. nitter.cf/JonBbC_TechGeek/status…
I drove a HW4 2026 Model Y using FSD v14.3.13 (2026.38.5.12) for about 1 hour today. Many of you know me as the “HW3 guy”. Yeah… my only car is a HW3 Tesla and that’s still what I drive every day.
The following review is not to dunk on Tesla or to say bad things, but rather to point out some really important observations so that HW4 owners aren’t so quick to dismiss HW3 as being inferior or (significantly) worse technology.
In my experience today, HW4 makes the exact same mistakes as HW3 v14.3 Lite (2026.35.5.11), and it didn’t feel any better than HW3 to me. If I were to be completely honest, I was not impressed at all.
Some cases in point, which are identical, if not worse, than my HW3 car:
- It didn’t slow down for some miniature speed bumps on a side street while entering a parking lot for a home improvement store
- It missed a turn with the navigation completely, realized it in the moment, and then somewhat attempted to turn, only to be completely blocked by an adjacent vehicle
- It drove too fast on a bumpy brick road
- It didn’t go when the light turned green and I was first at an intersection. I got honked at and had to step on the accelerator pedal (this was especially embarrassing)
- It entered a parking lot the wrong way, blocking traffic on a main road, making it extremely uncomfortable for me
- It parked in a handicap parking spot at a restaurant
- It parked in an alley instead of a parking lot.
- It parked in the only ‘RESERVED’ parking spot in a completely empty parking lot with 75 other spots to choose from.
Ed retweeted
The issue isn't the Cybertruck. The issue is that Tesla looks like it's moving away from the consumer market. People want to own their car, not an app with a service agreement.
Ed retweeted
Cybercab is simply an appliance and I am unexcited.
I root for Robotaxi
That’s monetized FSD
But that’s a service
The vehicle the Cybercab is not pivotal
The Robotaxi is
Reconsider some ideas Elon.
Ed retweeted
Who knows, but we can make noise. Sign the petition.
Keep the Cybertruck. Build an SUV on its platform, and remove the steering wheel and pedals if it needs to be a Cybercab.
c.org/hRgtGNvdqy
Ed retweeted
It's not "having cake and eating it too" to keep the legacy business operating until Robotaxi can hit mass market.
Tesla is cleaned out of inventory into next year as FSD gets good enough for the average driver and persistently high fuel prices make EVs really attractive, and they decide to kill the leading electric truck in favor of more idle Cybercab lines. They are obviously tied up in both regulatory and validation limitations to scaling Robotaxi to the point where the existing Cybercab lines spend more time idle than producing. They are not going to be able to flood the country with Cybercab when they need to crawl city-by-city and do the exact same mapping and validation that Waymo does. Nobody is going to seriously try and drive this car with how unoptimized the ergonomics and visibility are.
We lost the Model S and Model X to a robot that is still at least a year away from internal testing and use, let alone anyone outside the company getting one, and now we lost the Cybertruck to a car that won't be production-bound for the next 10 years even on its original lines.
IMO, they're not just shooting themselves in the foot here. They loaded the 12-gauge, handed it to their biggest haters, and had them shoot Tesla in the foot. Cybertruck needed to shatter the image of being a failure, and Elon just admitted it himself that's what it is. Imagine shutting down Falcon 9 entirely right now when only one Starship has managed to land in one piece and only two boosters were caught so far.
I'm starting to think Elon saying saving for the future is worthless is because there will be nothing to buy from total economic collapse, not from abundance. I try not to be a doomer, but the headwinds coming are a hurricane.
Ed retweeted
Installed tooling to build 125k Cybertrucks a year.
Sold 70k over 3 years.
Spent $2bn on research and development.
Made just $100m in gross profits from sales.
Net project loss of $1.9bn
Genius.
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Ed retweeted
Yup! FSD should be transferable for life locked to the account. I’d happily pay a transfer fee or be limited to 1 transfer a year.
Lifetime FSD transfer would actually boost sales from existing owners, instead of stifling it like it is now.
I’ve already heard from dozens of owners who want a Model Y L, but don’t want to lose FSD on their existing Tesla
Ed retweeted
@elonmusk
PLEASE give us the ability to fine tune max speed on ANY speed profile. Let the profile act in its specific manner but with a max speed that WE set.
PLEASE
NEWS: Elon says your Tesla will start to remember your specific interventions and match your individual preferences
This makes sense, for example your Tesla should have your route to work mastered
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