No one ever mentions optimus. Labor is the single biggest rate limiting step for Tesla to scale up to 20 million cars. Elon urges developers to build more houses because it's difficult to find people willing to work when housing prices explode next to every giga factory due to the amount of people needed to build products.
There are people speculating Chuck needs to re-calibrate his cameras after his car was repaired. It's not clear if Chuck has tried that yet before further testing.
3 & 4. Supercharger coverage in the US still leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe Tesla was waiting to see the extent of the federal buildout proposal, but they shouldn’t wait any longer. In addition to solar and storage:
Someone asked about that and Chuck replied that the cameras were re-calibrated at the shop.
It's called indicative analysis. Not claiming to be exact, just an estimate based on data.
I'm not sure of that. If the diesel was used in a vehicle the fuel would be directly powering vehicle motion, in the generator it's charging a battery with some efficiency loss and then powering the inverter/motor with some efficiency loss.
I disagree that it's lazy (with the exception of the disagree button--if you disagree, you should say why). It's time saving. It's already hard to keep up with every post, let alone if everyone wrote a response to each post.
This is good stuff but I think that investing for kids was referring to the planetary inheritance, not financial.
Renewables do have tax incentives in the USA.The problem is MANY countries still give incredible tax breaks to oil producers.
These are just those for the USA (and they are enormous):
What tax incentives encourage energy production from fossil fuels?
Tax subsidies for oil, gas and coal development are expected to reduce federal revenue by $12.9 billion from 2022 to 2026 (figure 1). The three...www.taxpolicycenter.org
No such equivalent exists for renewables.
Renewables do have tax incentives in the USA.
Renewable energy explained - incentives - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
Types of incentives for renewable energy production and use including renewable energy portfolio standards, net metering, tax credits, and feed-in-tariffs.www.eia.gov
“The federal tax incentives, or credits, for qualifying renewable energy projects or equipment include the Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit (PTC), the Investment Tax Credit (ITC), the Residential Energy Credit, and the Modified Accelerated Cost-Recovery System (MACRS). Grant and loan programs may be available from several government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Most states have some financial incentives available to support or subsidize the installation of renewable energy equipment.”
It’s not exactly the same as oil & gas subsidies and I’m not sure if they add up to more or less total subsidy per megajoule but there are solar and wind subsidies.
www.americanprogress.org
I know the referral bonus went down from 500 to 300.
Meet the Reclusive Software Billionaire Attacking Elon Musk
“Trillion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme.” “Deep Flaws.” “Unsafe.” The television ads for Dan O’Dowd, a software billionaire running as a Democrat.
What is this person’s agenda? He claims his company has nothing to do with FSD. Does he fear all his customers going bankrupt in competition?
He seems to have impressive credentials in the field that lends weight to his opinions. And yet:
“The software that drives cars that are going to have millions of people depending on it should be our best software, the most carefully designed and tested software,” he said. “Instead we’re using literally the worst software.”
Is it as simple as letting the perfect be the enemy of the good?
And why do these articles never include any data outside of anecdotal?
“The New York Times has reported extensively on the shortcomings of Musk’s push for fully autonomous cars, including in a recent documentary film.
In February, Tesla recalled 54,000 of its cars to disable a feature of its software that allowed the vehicles to make rolling stops in some cases. There are entire websites devoted to documenting deaths involving Teslas, including those where driver-assistance features were proved to have been involved.”
Does anyone really believe with the current state of affairs that if Tesla did not produce prodigious evidence on demand of the safety of the system vs. average human driver that the whole system would not have been shut down already by regulators?
Zero accidents thus far has demonstrated that human-supervised FSD Beta is at least 500x safer than the average human, conservatively assuming the average beta tester has done only 1k miles on Beta since most testers were added recently.
Meet the Reclusive Software Billionaire Attacking Elon Musk
“Trillion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme.” “Deep Flaws.” “Unsafe.” The television ads for Dan O’Dowd, a software billionaire running as a Democrat.
What is this person’s agenda? He claims his company has nothing to do with FSD. Does he fear all his customers going bankrupt in competition?
He seems to have impressive credentials in the field that lends weight to his opinions. And yet:
“The software that drives cars that are going to have millions of people depending on it should be our best software, the most carefully designed and tested software,” he said. “Instead we’re using literally the worst software.”
Is it as simple as letting the perfect be the enemy of the good?
And why do these articles never include any data outside of anecdotal?
“The New York Times has reported extensively on the shortcomings of Musk’s push for fully autonomous cars, including in a recent documentary film.
In February, Tesla recalled 54,000 of its cars to disable a feature of its software that allowed the vehicles to make rolling stops in some cases. There are entire websites devoted to documenting deaths involving Teslas, including those where driver-assistance features were proved to have been involved.”
Does anyone really believe with the current state of affairs that if Tesla did not produce prodigious evidence on demand of the safety of the system vs. average human driver that the whole system would not have been shut down already by regulators?
If each one of the 100k FSD Beta drivers has averaged at least 2 miles on Beta and if Beta were truly more dangerous than human driving, we’d expect to have seen a crash by now. If it’s soooo dangerous, where are all the injuries and deaths?
www.foxbusiness.com
If there is a frustration on my part with that talk, it is that we knew precisely everything presented therein during early 1980s graduate school, and all of the concepts plus much of the details in undergrad in the late 1970s. That was a dozen - or even more! - years ago.
