It’s probably going to happen in June like they said, it’s just a matter of how long before something really bad happens and they have to stop, because something bad is probably going to happen. But it probably is imminent, temporarily.

Putting my LG G Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!

Edit: oh also that was the freezer

Their insurance is (was?) kind of like that as well if you get the saftey score one. While some things are more general and concrete like following distance, time of day driving, they have one for forward collision warnings.

I’m not sure how much time you’ve spent in a Tesla, but that system is notorious for going off incorrectly. It’s specifically really bad with parked cars on the side of the road on turns. So you’re driving along a city street with cars parked on the side and it goes off and now your insurance premiums are more expensive.

I don’t think you could find a single Tesla owner who hasn’t had multiple false warnings, and consistently in certain circumstances.

So someone of course starts a lawsuit and Tesla initially defends itself, but just last week or something like that, it’s no longer part of the safety score

It goes further than that. They can track how people interact with the page, order of buttons pressed, if or when they abort a workflow etc. You can go as deep down the rabbit hole of analytics and optimizations as you want.

I’d want whatever the warranty was to be the same plus the miles.

So if it’s 5 year 50k miles and I get it at 1k, I 'd want 5 year 51k miles.

Even at these lower prices, Tesla makes more money on their EVs than their competitors. That’s part of why the others haven’t been able to expand and compete as quickly. Expanding an expensive vehicle becomes a bigger liability as you have less pricing room. GM is only planning to have their first EV profitable year this year, and I’ll believe it when I see it.

The Cybertruck is probably another story though, I don’t know if that’s profitable at the lower than expected sales rate.

Edit: E.g the Bolt everyone loves from GM never made GM money. That’s why they didn’t sell more. They did learn from it though so it wasn’t a total loss for them.

Samsung: god damnit, now we have to use the $0.30 washer instead of the $0.29 washer and itll last at least 10 years longer!

That’s 10s of millions in extra sales lost!

The only people he’s going to have to upgrade are those who purchased it. In the past there’s been some small claims court cases where someone won about being upgraded for a subscription, but if that is truly a concern, Tesla could stop the subscriptions for a few years and let the cars age out. They have no obligations to offer a subscription, it wasn’t a thing when the original promise was made.

Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually be capable. The promise is to upgrade cars to capable hardware, not upgrade cars with every hardware iteration, so as long as hw4 can’t actually do it, they’re likely in the clear as well.

Given most people don’t think they can actually make fsd work, then they’re in the clear.

If they somehow make it work, the upgrade cost is going to be peanuts compared to the insane amount of money they’d start printing.

So it’s not much if a story.

Edit: also worth mentioning, he’s been pretty clear over the years that FSD is going to cost a lot more money once it’s available for real. So if he does have to upgrade everyone who pays for it (lets assume they stop subscriptions to avoid that issue), even if that means upgrading all HW4 cars as well because it needs HW5, he can jack the price up more to help cover the upgrade cost. No one should be under the illusion that purchasing FSD will be cheaper than it is today if they succeed.

I’m pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don’t think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.

Yikes that’s a bad rate.

It would be nice to get rid of it, but it will cost a lot more money that no one wants to pay even if it’s actually a good use of it.

The Cybertruck doesn’t violate any US laws, there’s nothing to disallow it, and independent testing gave it 5 star saftey rating.

And while OEMs do self certify, they get spot checked to ensure compliance. There’s too many new vehicles and variants for the NHSTA/EPA etc. to ever check every single one in detail.

Edit: and if you really wanna get into it, most of the other OEMs everyone wants to love actually put defeat devices for said spot checking to lie and kill us sooner with bad air for $$$

Next thing you know he’s going to say WordPress isn’t used by anyone.

Hey Tobi, why do need to pay you any bonus moving forward? What did you do the AI couldn’t?

So there were some military contracts that were just awarded.

54 missions total:

SpaceX: 28 missions, $5.9 B = $210.7 M per launch

ULA: 19 missions, $5.4 B = $284 M per launch

BO: 7 missions, $2.4 B = $342.9 M per launch

SpaceX did get the most money, but they were also the cheapest provider due to their reusable 1st stages.

Just with those 9 extra launches over ULA SpaceX saves the US government and taxpayers 668 million dollars.

If SpaceX didn’t exist, it would have been 8 2 billion more but actually worse since the other providers can’t supply that much and wouldn’t have had as much competitive incentive. Just look at BO the next one which was almost 60m more than ULA. It easily could have ballooned to 4b more adding a 3rd even more expensive option.

Doesn’t seem so self dealing to me, they were able to bid lower and win more, and saved, (I’m assuming you given your rage upset) a shit load of money.

This is what SpaceX has been doing for years, well before he got in bed with Trump.

If you don’t use the strikeout, you can save millions of dollar on toner/ink from not printing out an extra word at a corpo that big. I think I deserve a promotion for that insight as well, well worth the extra money!

A sales email in a tricky situation due to how the potential client responded or writing a personalized cold call email? Of course!

Edit: As I learn and get better at sales I imagine it’d get quicker, but I’m learning while working with the AI.

I do write something, and then work to refine it. Like I said, I spent 15 to 20 minutes on it after writing it.

I’m a software developer, not a writer or a salesperson, but I have to do sales to sell my software.

I can write a first draft of a sales email to get my ideas across and then have the AI look at it from a specific perspective I don’t have the skills in.

I dont just take whatever it says and hit send though, I have a conversation with it to tweak things i don’t like, remove things that I don’t think are needed or add things it missed.

Do this for 15 to 20 minutes and I end up with a much more polished email that won’t come across as AI slop with all the personal touches I did want to add.

Okay, so I’m going to edit my earlier replies but replying again so you see, as I was wrong.

Version 11/12 in 2023/2024 wasn’t using the AP code, it just wasn’t using the neural nets. So it was legitimately FSD, but it was running different code on the freeways (non neural net) vs on city streets (neural net)

But it was indeed FSD. Version 11.x was the change where it stopped using AP when you left city streets.

The motorcyclist was killed on a freeway merge ramp.

I’d say that means it’s a very good chance that yes, while FSD was enabled, the crash happened under the older AP mode of driving, as it wasn’t until November 2024 that it was moved over to the new FSD neural net driving code.. I was wrong here, it actually was FSD then, it just wasn’t end to end neural nets then like it is now.

Also yikes… the report says the AEB kicked in, and the driver overrode it by pressing on the accelerator!