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Informative CyberTruck thread, some tidbits: dual and tri-motor, no single or quad motor. 5% size reduction. In-house accessory team/manufacturing.
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Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable
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mars_or_bust
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on top of at least several hundred million of years of evolution to work out the relevant neural network architecture.
I thought I will let this thing die.. but..
Proof read? I posted a humor tweet/video which was obvious to me and many that it is fake and humor. The fact that for some that it was not obvious is not really a 'proof reading' issue, is it?
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Now Mods have every right to delete it and I have no qualms on that, but if they can take the time to delete and comment on the deletion reason as "fake", then they could have simply updated the post with that comment. Just saying.. but no big deal.
Moderator work is not easy.. a lot of grunt work and you can't please everyone.
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I believe most of their cash is in a money market account. Seems like you only use silicone valley bank if you want to fund a startup. I don't see any startups Tesla would fund.
Gigapress
Trying to be less wrong
Elon has said this on multiple occasions too.
For example:
Both LiDAR and radar rely on spraying photons around, measuring the photons reflected back, and interpreting that signal with software. The similarities pretty much stop there and anyone who suggests otherwise probably does not understand the basics of optics and electromagnetism. This includes Ross Gerber, who is not an engineer. Having the same end goal does not mean that the potential usefulness of practicality of each technology is comparable. There’s much more technical nuance to this decision.
I don’t know how Tesla will use radar this time around or why they’ve apparently reversed their decision to stop using it due to excessive false positives for object detection. When I met with some TMC forum members in Silicon Valley in February, @ZeApelido told us that there’s a mathematical theorem showing that more sensors will always be able to improve AI’s knowledge of a scene if given enough time to actually learn the patterns and at worst an additional sensor is a completely useless signal that will, via training, end up with matrix weights of zero and thus be ignored. If I remember our conversation correctly, the speculation was that Tesla had been eschewing sensor fusion with radar despite this because of difficulty with the attempts to get the neural nets to learn to incorporate the radar well in practice, and this maybe had been slowing down progress on iteration of the FSD and Autopilot architecture. Maybe it was better for Tesla to just double down on figuring out vision-only faster since human driving proves that this is by itself a sufficiently informative signal to operate a vehicle successfully. If so, maybe this means Tesla is now confident enough in the V11 architecture and/or the 100x increase in training compute supposedly coming in the next two years that it’s a good time to reintroduce sensor fusion with radar to get even better results in the long run.
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Gigapress
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Artful Dodger
"Neko no me"
No, not at all. That's why Elon insisted that Tesla retire it's long-term debt quickly by 2022, so that Tesla would have no exposure to any recession and/or interest rate risks. Indeed, Tesla is MAKING money off it's cash billion$ now.
Further, Elon personally is at no risk due to temporary equity loans taken during his Twitter takeover. The banks that provided those loans (which are now all paid off) were included in this May 5, 2022 SEC filing: (list of instituitions included below link)
AMENDMENT NO. 6 to SCHEDULE 13D | SEC.gov filing
Equity Investor:
A.M. Management & ConsultingAH Capital Management, L.L.C. (a16z)
Aliya Capital Partners LLC
BAMCO, Inc. (Baron)
Binance
Brookfield
DFJ Growth IV Partners, LLC
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC
Honeycomb Asset Management LP
Key Wealth Advisors LLC
Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust
Litani Ventures
Qatar Holding LLC
Sequoia Capital Fund, L.P.
Strauss Capital LLC
Tresser Blvd 402 LLC (Cartenna)
VyCapital
Witkoff Capital
As you can plainly see, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was NOT part of the original group of institutions involved with the deal.
Boy the ambulance chasers are getting desperate... LOL!
You could lead this opportunity to squeeze money out of the most innovative and successful company of the 21st century!!!
You could lead this opportunity to squeeze money out of the most innovative and successful company of the 21st century!!!
This was also quite interesting from CleanTechnica in the last few days:
Chalmers University Reveals 500 kW Wireless Charging Technology
Stats: 500 kW, 2% loss (!), 15 cm distance between charge plates
The professor they interviewed expected this wouldn't likely be used for home charging of EV's, but more likely charging things like battery-electric ferries (also maybe Semi's?) that are constantly in use, so can't stop to charge for long periods.
I wonder, at that high a rate and that low a loss, if this could be a help in bringing about the Robotaxis of the future.
Also, it ain't a MW, but perhaps with further development it could be - putting into the range of usefulness at a truck stop, perhaps, for Semis?
Chalmers University Reveals 500 kW Wireless Charging Technology
Stats: 500 kW, 2% loss (!), 15 cm distance between charge plates
The professor they interviewed expected this wouldn't likely be used for home charging of EV's, but more likely charging things like battery-electric ferries (also maybe Semi's?) that are constantly in use, so can't stop to charge for long periods.
I wonder, at that high a rate and that low a loss, if this could be a help in bringing about the Robotaxis of the future.
Also, it ain't a MW, but perhaps with further development it could be - putting into the range of usefulness at a truck stop, perhaps, for Semis?
The new radar is higher resolution and more steerable. With 6 Tx antennas (4 tx simultaneously) and 8 Rx antennas, it may be able to better resolve objects in the stationary frame rather than just suppressing them.
The old ARS4 had 2 Tx 3 Rx.
Besides Tesla having billions earning interest, which I believe was/is in CDs ,Elon warned not to use margin. In fact a recession improves profit margin and thus can even lower prices which I believe scares the hell out of other EV manufacturers.
Have a great weekend
Artful Dodger
"Neko no me"
Yeah, that would be the San Fernando valley. SVB is in Santa Clara (silicon) valley.
Cheers!
I would say outright US treasuries, with short term maturities.
CDs would be least likely .
Is fastcharger.info a sister site of supercharge.info? The former for non-Tesla chargers and the later more focused on Tesla superchargers? The sites looks identical to each other.
Let's shed some light on what I saw happen for the purpose of learning and preparing for the future. BTW, I enjoyed your post and was one of the first to react to question it without much analysis. However, someone (lacking memory here) responded with ... serious? At that point, I thought that person was questioning the validity of the fake, but in hindsight, was likely ridiculing my comment as if I was still questioning it. This further digressed and most others completely missed my post. But loving the humor, and still laughing my *** off at the post, I poked at someone else later because I mentioned (humorously) that they were "cheating" by looking at the twitter notes, which I didn't read until afterwards BTW. That too was not helpful, my appologies.
The recap (from my perspective) looked something like this:
,,. But we had a few other versions clearly. So I wouldn't take it personally, more of an unfortunate misunderstanding that spiraled some. But... what if it was less obvious? Could you imagine the impact of some fake news - as we all know is likely to happen fairly soon.So in the future, I think it would be prudent to call it out, or at least ask for opinion if we're not certain. There are folks here who still think the Robot demo was partially faked, enough to clog up pages of debate
. Consider it simply Queue from Start Trek coming to visit, because it ain't gonna get easier folks. 
No but (Today I Learned) apparently my startup had 3/4 of their money in it!
Exciting times I live in.
Love it or hate it, the FED needs to rethink raising rates this fast again in the future. Many have lost billions in treasury bonds due to the spike in rates, even resulting in the collapse of some banks as we are witnessing right now. Slow clap for the feds...
Likely in the same boat. But at least not affected on both ends lol
MountainRatMat
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That is silicone valley, not silicon valley. A very important distinction.Yeah, that would be the San Fernando valley. SVB is in Santa Clara (silicon) valley.
Cheers!
We like to change the FE with PO in the name of the valley but that would not be appropriate for TMC
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