As Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) has gotten better and users have claimed they never have to intervene, I’ve thought, that’s great if you like that, but it doesn’t really mean anything for the market until Tesla is willing to take on liability in the event of a crash. That’s … [continued]
Elon Musk says that he wants SpaceX and Tesla teams to work together to build 100 gigawatts of solar power manufacturing capacity in the US — cells and modules. And he wants to do that within three years. There’s a lot to consider here. Before we get into some of … [continued]
Steve Hanley had an excellent article this week discussing how the SpaceX IPO may well be a boondoggle to bail out a couple of Elon Musk ventures and enrich a few friends. It’s honestly a bit shocking once you get into the details of the IPO. I think most of … [continued]
SpaceX plans to go public next month. Will new investors see substantial gains or covering Elon’s losses from his misadventures?
One of our regular commenters dropped a completely non-shocking, straightforward, inconspicuous comment under an article this morning, but it jumped out at me as a really important point and topic to center an article around. First of all, another commenter, Amos Batto, wrote: “When I look at how Elon has … [continued]
Class action lawsuits against Tesla have been running for a while based on the claims and promises Elon Musk has made about Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) over the past decade. Basically, people who spent a lot of money expecting Full Self Driving to work within a reasonable period of … [continued]
Steve Hanley wrote an article this morning about Tesla’s dysfunctional, wacky automatic windshield wipers, among other things. We happened to have a conversation earlier in the morning about them, but I didn’t realize the extent of his crisis in the pouring Florida rain, and I also didn’t share the followup … [continued]
A driver in Texas decided to test “Wade Mode” in his Tesla Cybertruck. He wound up getting arrested for his trouble.
Should a man who cannot make automatic windshield wipers work be trusted to make cars that drive themselves?
Andrej Karpathy was Tesla’s AI lead well before AI was everywhere all the time. At the very early part of the AI hype cycle, he was the only AI guy many people knew. He led Tesla’s efforts toward Full Self Driving (FSD) for years, and it’s still not exactly clear … [continued]
