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Every Cruise vehicle was supposedly supported by 1.5 workers per vehicle — more than a manually driven car. The workers remotely intervened to assist the vehicles every 2.5 - 5 miles on average, according to two people familiar with operations $GM

Tesla / Elon / xAI releasing AI to select groups. Background on xAI:

My Russian brother in law believes this to be true. He says he has some kind of insider info. I'm dubious until they start with the ballerina on TV. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/23334

Ford drops partnerships with Chinese EV battery makers in light of UAW deal. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/ford-will-postpone-about-12-billion-in-ev-investment.html

Strike looks like it is ending against Ford. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23932799/ford-uaw-auto-worker-end-strike-gm-stellantis

Bolt will live on. Was scheduled to be cancelled in December. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/24/general-motors-chevrolet-bolt-ev-ultium.html

Strike expands against RAM / Stellantis. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/uaw-autoworker-strike-expands-ram-truck-plant-shut-down-rcna121389

Repeat marketing message from 2016.

VW id.3 costs $16K in China and $35K in Germany. In the EV market BYD is kicking posterior, grabbing market share. Chinese EVs are seen to be better at software and battery tech.

I can see a highly automated car wrap process for cybertruck taking less than an hour. Machines can easily cut the vinyl, cleaning step can be skipped?, curves make it harder, which CT seems void of.

Yes on freeways, no in cities because I don't like the nags. I do turn it on when stopped on traffic control lights so that I can tune out. As soon as the car starts going I turn it off. Easier to drive myself than to worry about nags and erratic driving.

Amnon says that LLMs lack the ability to abstract. Without this ability they will never be generally intelligent. Some new tech adding the ability to abstract could come tomorrow , 50 years, or later.

Didn't know FSD beta had expanded to so many countries.

I justed muted Elon and other accounts there were not interested.

Tesla starting to do some FSD marketing on twitter.

Model Y will get the rear touch screen next year?

One can theorize that due to many years of war, men maybe in short supply, so going for a refresh is an attractive opportunity. I know of rich guys in the U.S. that have done this, and know from second hand sources of Russians doing this.

Lots of excellent future projections:

My wife is in a russian bay area womens facebook group with 1K members. According to her, initially there was only one person that was pro putin, and the rest where pro Ukraine. After some months the dissenting voice stopped posting. So from that perspective it is hard to find someone that is...

Perhaps true, but I'll reiterate what was kind of said above. My mother-in-law who lives in Russia, refuses to talk about the war, because she is afraid of going to jail if someone is listening in to the telephone conversation. If she does say something it will be pro putin just to stay on the...

What is being lost? Artillery pieces?

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-to-invest-1-billion-in-dojo-supercomputer If one is to believe the $1B for dojo is for the Tesla version of dojo then we can do some math: $1B / 10K = $100K for each Tesla dojo chip. If the $1B if for both nVidia and Tesla dojo then it is $1B...

Another link to video is Ukraine running out of soldiers with timestamp to the math: 4:10 into the video. Ukraine summary: 70K killed, 140K wounded or captured. Country size 40 million. 20 million men. 1/4 fit for military service which is 5 million potential soldiers. Neither Russia nor...

10K tesla designed computer chips ordered for dojo: https://money.udn.com/money/story/5612/7446399?from=edn_maintab_index Same number as reported for nVidia's neural net accelerators which are commonly referred to as GPUs which is a misnomer...

Expert gives his thoughts on how the bot is likely trained.

Long read if you want to understand more about training the bot.

Progress with Ford but not with GM and Stellantis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/22/uaw-strike-updates-biden/ An example headline using "big 3", which seems like a joke at this point. https://finance.yahoo.com/video/uaw-big-3-contract-deadline-204440126.html

Drove on freeway north to SF on highway 101, 35 miles and back. Only got nags when I wasn't looking forward. Pretty awesome. In city driving I still get nags, perhaps because I look away often?

When is Tesla going to show up in that pie chart? :)

Interesting that mobileye is committed to tele / remote operation for full self driving. How long before Tesla copies them? :)

https://www.teslarati.com/lithium-sulfur-battery-producer-200-million/ In June 2023, Lyten opened its first lithium-sulfur battery automated pilot plant in San Jose, California. The startup is on target to produce commercial cells by the end of 2023. It plans to start shipping to customers for...

Big machine used to make big truck: There have been plenty of other pics posted, but putting people in the pic puts the size of the machine into perspective. From May 14:

Is Elon philosophying about AGI? SerDes - Serializer / Deserializer

Elon dissing LLM tech.

Elon reiterating that FSD is important.

Elon stating the obvious that a lot of compute is needed for video training.

A shame that Carlos Ghosn isn't around to have Nissan in that list.

Some republicans concerned about Ford's battery deal with Chinese. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dozens-republicans-probe-us-automaker-partnership-ccp-linked-ev-company Quote: A group of 26 Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee are probing billion-dollar U.S. automaker Ford...

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4187159-trump-vows-to-end-madness-of-ev-push/

https://www.autonews.com/mobility-report/ev-purchases-drop-states-lowest-adoption-rates

Quote: Tesla product development process is closer to software than to traditional vehicle. In the last 3 months of Highland's release, they changed the design of the turn signal, the ambient light from 4 colors to 256 colors, and the PNRD physical gear above the inner rearview mirror.

One can theorize that it is coming as a later upgrade. I do recalling reading about project highland and that upgrades will continue into Q1. More specifically the text said that project highland wouldn't be completed until Q1.

Doesn't Model Y already have hardware 4?

Model Y also getting HW4? I thought it already had it. Will Model Y also get front camera? Does it affect FSD?

Wife said it is because projected earnings for the quarter are down and Elon is adjust some levers to increase earnings.