Dreamed of a world I’d never see. Then I got in. I supervise. FSD gets better, roads get safer. 🇨🇦 26Y FSD all the time.
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🤖 Robot Driver retweeted
SpaceX just caught Starship returning from orbit.
First time in history.
Elon Musk 2021: “We took the legs off the booster and just have the tower catch it... People thought I’d lost my mind… maybe I have. But we’ll get it right.”
2022: A tower built to catch the largest flying object ever made and “pluck it out of the air.”
2024: “The odds of catching the booster with the tower are probably 80 to 90 percent this year… which is insane.”
Six months later, SpaceX caught it.
Today, Starship came home from orbit and the tower caught that too.
Elon Musk in 2022: “The key to making life multiplanetary is a fully reusable rocket.”
🤖 Robot Driver retweeted
SpaceX is redesigning the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack into a flatter layout so it can be stacked inside Starship’s PEZ dispenser and deployed through the payload door, much like a Starlink V3 satellite.👇
Starship’s PEZ door is only about 0.8 meters tall
SpaceX is developing Kessel, a custom Vera Rubin NVL72 rack that replaces internal NVLink cable cartridges with a passive PCB midplane. It keeps Oberon’s 72 GPU packages, 18 compute trays and 9 switch trays, but rearranges them back-to-back around the board. Think mini Kyber, with a smaller scale-up domain and a design intended for both terrestrial and orbital deployment. The question is whether this smaller version can make the midplane practical. (1/4)🧵
Seems like a good deal. I guess right now I’m thinking more about the fact that this would just be my personal chauffeur, maybe friends and family, but not as a taxi for the general public. Is that even possible?
Crazy how much free maintenance is included in Tesla's Autonomy subscription.
You don't have to worry about flat tires, cracked windshields, camera cleaning, or even refilling your own washer fluid!
This is actually quite fascinating and something I've rarely seen discussed about Robotaxis. There is time and effort required to keep an autonomous vehicle in good working condition.
Normally if someone cracks their windshield, they might just keep driving if they don't want to spend the money for a replacement right this second. But with an autonomous car, that's a risk because the car needs the windshield intact and in good condition to make sure the cameras are stable and can see clearly without obstructions.
So rather than risking a personal owner not taking good care of the car and creating safety risk that makes Tesla Self-Driving look bad, they just roll up all that standard maintenance cost into one plan. A personal owner might let their tires wear down to the bone and create extra risk of a crash, which people would then blame on the self-driving software. Tesla eliminates this possibility by changing the tires on their own set schedule automatically with the cost bundled into the autonomy subscription.
When we first saw the order page, we thought the autonomy subscription was really just FSD (Unsupervised). But it's actually FSD (Unsupervised) + maintenance + liability + premium connectivity etc.
The downside of this is that it makes the monthly subscription more expensive and adds cost for Tesla, but in reality you *should* be spending the money to maintain the car anyway so it makes sense to just make it a required part of the subscription upfront so people can't skimp on it.
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It’s happening
Tesla invites select customers to buy Cybercab for $29,990 – with $299 monthly ‘autonomy fee’ driveteslacanada.ca/news/tes…
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Hope it's not bad news.....
BREAKING: All US flights grounded because of 'extraordinary circumstances'
news.sky.com/story/us-airpor…
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Thinking about adding Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to your Tesla? DM me. It’s genuinely life-changing once you experience it. If you take the trial and decide to keep it, I get a referral credit and you’ll have it for good. Planning to stick with it past the free month? Let’s talk. 🇨🇦
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It’s effectively impossible to fall asleep at the wheel in a Tesla, even if one tried. The safety monitor detects inattention and delivers an alert sharp enough to feel like an electric fence of sound. One rather wishes law enforcement would actually drive these vehicles on FSD before drawing conclusions.
OPP charges two Tesla drivers for sleeping and watching videos while using FSD driveteslacanada.ca/news/opp…
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