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brandonagr2on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

What government money do you think Tesla gets? Consumer tax credits went away a long time ago, and that benefit went to customers, not Tesla.

brandonagr2on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

What do you mean too big for orbital payloads? Mass to low earth orbit is what matters, which starship is well optimized for. You could always put a tiny third stage on there to go places, but that is back to the apollo style yeeting a tiny amount of mass somewhere else and would not help with getting serious tonnage to the moon and mars

brandonagr2on Mexico has a growing fleet of new vehicles from Chinese brands

Model Y is the best selling car model in the world, so just fine it seems, the government is protecting legacy auto, not Tesla with the ban

brandonagr2on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

Basing that on any stats? Check actual data at tesla.com/fsd/safety

Please provide a better source if you have one

brandonagr2on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy

The wipers are a physical button under your thumb, easier to activate than being hidden on a stalk

Temp is always visible in bottom left of screen, no sub menu needed

And you can use voice commands for anything, you should test drive a new one

brandonagr2on Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

For those not in the loop, what are the actions that "have been programmatically made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent"?

brandonagr2on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Unless your plan is to pay SpaceX to launch this constellation, 'it' (developing both launch and a constellation to rival starlink) has not been happening in europe

brandonagr2on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

Europe would have to not only build the satellites, but launch them, which rocket program do you think exists in Europe that could do that? The pace of Ariane launches could not accelerate quickly enough

brandonagr2on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology

From anonymous source...

brandonagr2on Astronomer watches Starlink satellites sinking to build a 'planetary barometer'

If the report is predicting 100 years in the future, are we really "to the brink" now? Not to mention the decay time of these LEO is in months, hardly a kessler syndrome scenario.

brandonagr2on Grok 4.7

You should try it, it is less sycophantic than other models and is faster and better at most reasoning levels, don't confuse the twitter bots and services also named Grok with the frontier model itself

brandonagr2on Grok 4.7

What failed with X? Usage today is higher than ever

brandonagr2on How SpaceX streamlined the Raptor engine

https://www.spacex.com/content/starship/holy-grail-of-rocket... at 13:35 has a good view of a raptor 3 with TVC, do you think that adds substantially to what is pictured at the top of the article?

brandonagr2on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Cybercab

Cybercab is most efficient electric production car, 165 Wh/mile

brandonagr2on EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

What are you basing your they are not as clean assertion on? It's more likely that data center generation can be run continuously instead of turning on and off according to market prices. Can see the swing in amount of natural gas production during a day, https://www.gridstatus.io/live/ercot

brandonagr2on Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

It seems strange for this article to word this as a new or unusual source of pollution, natural gas is the primary source of energy in the US, adding 10% to existing thermal fleet in ERCOT https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards is not a huge deal and its disingenuous to say this one plant will become a "top source of US pollution".

Solar generation buildout in ERCOT is also proceeding very quickly, the new Tesla megapack factory outside Houston and proposed new solar factory will help speed up the transition to sustainable energy.

brandonagr2on US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Which part of "attack enemies" implies they were targeting innocent people?

brandonagr2on xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

You can, https://www.tesla.com/fsd

Are you trying to invent your own definition for self driving and quibble that supervision negates what the car is doing?

brandonagr2on xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

You are behind, FSD is already here, my car drove me to work today (fully self driving)

Starlink v3 satelites launch next month, the first starmind sats based nvidia chips sometime next year, large new factories for the needed solar panels are already half built outside of bastrop texas

brandonagr2on Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests

There is a big difference between "something like" and actually passing the tests, I would be surprised if any non vision based system has the reaction time needed to pass the new pedestrian tests.

brandonagr2on Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests

Obviously your priors are wrong, it can ace a blind spot warning test because it can detect a motorcycle next to it.

brandonagr2on NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays

You don't have long to wait to see an obvious reason, the first v3 starship is in preflight testing right now.

brandonagr2on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

Robotaxis in Austin are in the process of removing in car safety monitors, there is a chance you would get one today

brandonagr2on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

Not mass production yet, but the first one rolled off the completed assembly line at giga texas last week

Sensor fusion is not far simpler, when the sensors disagree, and they will often, you have to pick which to trust.

It is amazing to see how many people here are confident they know the one true way to build autonomous systems based on nothing but wanting to confirm their biases

brandonagr2on Datacenters in space aren't going to work

The benefit is capturing a larger percentage of the output of the sun than what hits the earth.

brandonagr2on Datacenters in space aren't going to work

The surface area of the earth is the limit (which only gets sunlight half the time) and only gets 1 billionth the energy emitted by the sun vs relatively unlimited surface area of solar panels in space

brandonagr2on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race

Government run grocery stores are middle of the road? What would progressive ideas look like on that spectrum?

brandonagr2on Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making

Nowhere to be seen if your head is in the sand. There are robotaxi pilot programs running in two cities, FSD 14 is actively rolling out to customers, and my car drove me to work this morning on v13. I don't see any lies

brandonagr2on Tesla is looking to redesign its door handles following trapped-passenger report

If a car has a physical child lock switch engaged, it's not possible to open the door from the inside even in an emergency.

Clearly rear emergency egress is not a requirement, a child opening the door while going down the highway is a much larger risk.

brandonagr2on Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

No, the horn is in the middle, the capacitive horn only steering wheel existed on early builds of the model S refresh (when plaid was first released), but after ~6 months they added the normal horn back.

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-DEB259C...

https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-DEB259C...