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1 minute ago, NoName said:

it's SPACE.

If it was so fucking easy why is it taking SpaceX this long then? Why didn't they just fly up there in August and pick those dudes up?

 

Good question.

Why wasn't there a plan to go rescue them? The "decision was imminent" in August 23, 2024 according to the AP. 

Yet, there wasn't any news after that I could find. 

I don't think Musk is some hero, I think the CIA created a bunch of front companies to "publicly" run things and have him as a frontman. 

 

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Are the two astronauts stranded?

NASA bristles at suggestions that Wilmore and Williams are stranded or stuck. NASA has stressed from the get-go that in an emergency at the space station — like a fire or decompression — Starliner could still be used by the pair as a lifeboat to leave. A former NASA executive contends the astronauts are “kind of stuck,” although certainly not stranded. They’re safe aboard the space station with plenty of supplies and work to do, Scott Hubbard pointed out recently.

If NASA decides to go with a SpaceX return, Starliner would be be cut loose first to open up one of two parking spots for U.S. capsules. Before that happens Wilmore and Williams would fashion seats for themselves in the SpaceX Dragon capsule currently docked at the space station. That’s because every station occupant needs a lifeboat at all times. Once Starliner’s docking port is empty, then SpaceX could launch another Dragon to fill that slot — the one that Wilmore and Williams would ride.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Zeus said:

 

 

Nasa hasn't had space shuttles to get them since 2011. Boeing Starliner is a piece of shit. 

I guess relying on Soyuz makes sense since they are still going back and fourth but there's no American option to get them back. 

The ISS is going into the ocean in 5 years.

What are you babbling about? A SpaceX Crew Dragon has been docked at the ISS for 3 months and has been scheduled to return to Earth in March. This has been the plan for awhile.

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4 minutes ago, F250 said:

What are you babbling about? A SpaceX Crew Dragon has been docked at the ISS for 3 months and has been scheduled to return to Earth in March. This has been the plan for awhile.

It was originally scheduled to return in February and has been delayed until March "at the earliest."  I think we are all confident that these astronauts will make home safely in the relatively near future, but we don't have to pretend that this situation is super duper routine and NBD.

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YouTube’s top cheater hunter decodes Elon Musk’s gaming farce

https://www.msn.com/en-us/gaming/gaming-platforms/youtube-s-top-cheater-hunter-decodes-elon-musk-s-gaming-farce/ar-AA1y3FL3

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Elon Musk, the planet’s richest human, has been caught twisting the truth about how good he is at video games.

He has recently been feuding with the games community over his achievements in a variety of video games, namely “Diablo IV” and “Path of Exile 2,” two role-playing games that demand hundreds of hours of playtime to earn high-level characters and gear. While Musk’s antics to grab attention don’t interest me, I am fascinated by the psychology of cheaters, especially for something as low-stakes as video games.

I figured the best person to break down this behavior is YouTube’s preeminent debunker of video game cheaters, Karl Jobst, a 38-year-old Australian with 1.1 million subscribers. Jobst is a respected speedrunner of classic games and has a history of fair but uncompromising takedowns of cheaters in the video game space. He’s currently fighting a defamation lawsuit filed by Billy Mitchell, the 59-year-old hot sauce entrepreneur who gained international attention for his record-breaking plays of “Pac-Man” and “Donkey Kong” and who’s the focus of the 2007 documentary “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.” (Record keepers stripped Mitchell of those scores after allegations of cheating, then reinstated them last year following a legal settlement.)

Jobst recently announced that his next video will cover Musk. He posted online, “I’m not sure the story has been told entirely accurately.”

Make no mistake, Jobst is unsparing in his criticism of how Musk boasts about his gaming skills.

“He shouldn’t lie and make these claims,” Jobst said in an interview, adding: “Maybe him being so deluded about his own ability is why he is where he is today. He thinks he’s great at everything. It doesn’t matter if someone else helped him get his account so high. He thinks he’s such a good gamer that he doesn’t need to put in the thousands of hours.” (Musk did not respond to The Washington Post’s requests for comment about his gaming.)

But Jobst extends grace to how Musk has portrayed his prowess on “Path of Exile 2.” Expert players of the game, such as Quintin Crawford, or Quin69 on YouTube, have criticized Musk’s high-level character, saying that Musk paid others to play for him in an act known as “boosting.” Musk has since admitted, via a reposted video sharing his private messages, that he engages in the practice, adding that he never meant to claim those achievements as solely his own.

“When I actually watched the stream with Elon, it didn’t come across that way to me that Elon was boasting that much,” Jobst said. “It was a test stream for data on X, and he barely played the game really. And he never said he was good at ‘Path of Exile 2.’ He never made the claim. Yes, he has a very high character, but he obviously paid someone to boost the account. The coverage of it was really, really exaggerated.”

Outside the stream, Musk posted that his character’s high level made the game feel easy.

Jobst still considers Musk a liar about his video game prowess, and he finds it bizarre how Musk reacted angrily to prominent critics, such as the streamer Asmongold, to the point that Musk leaked private messages to mock him.

“That’s why I want to talk to Elon, because I want to ask him why he reacted so badly to Asmongold’s coverage, and then immediately afterward admit he was right anyway,” Jobst said.

Jobst takes bigger issue with Musk’s claim to be “at one point ... maybe one of the best ‘Quake’ players in the world,” another claim that people familiar with Musk’s play have debunked. Then there’s Musk boasting about speedrunning “Diablo IV,” becoming a world-ranked player. “Diablo IV” isn’t a game that requires technical skill demanded by action games such as “Fortnite” and “Quake.” Instead, it’s about playing the game long enough to earn the best equipment to be the most powerful. Skill mostly equals understanding the game’s systems and spending an exorbitant amount of time playing.

“I was disliking the way he was characterizing and he was pointing to things I didn’t really like,” Jobst said. “He obviously doesn’t understand the core tenet of speedrunning, which is generally we start from scratch. We wouldn’t be speedrunning with advanced characters like he did.”

Jobst said there will always be people lying about video game achievements, regardless of the class or status of the player, because virtual achievements are by nature harder to scrutinize. Skinny people like myself can claim to bench-press 500 pounds, and the lie would be immediately obvious. For gaming achievements, Jobst said it’s very hard to disprove unless people provide footage of their play to dissect, which is Jobst’s expertise.

“His behavior is commonplace, and I’ve seen cheaters react very poorly to being exposed, probably even worse than Elon,” Jobst said. “But, I mean, he’s the richest guy in the world. It’s just a bit more perplexing.”

I’ve cheated in games before but have never boasted about those achievements because they weren’t honestly earned. I cheated because it’s often fun to be powerful in games. PC games offer mods, while many console games offer in-game cheats provided by the developers. Because Jobst has spoken with so many “caught” cheaters, I wondered whether he had insight on what motivates these people to publicly lie. He doesn’t believe in casting moral judgment on cheaters.

“Sometimes they lie and fake things because it’s funny,” he said. “Sometimes they don’t think they really know what’s wrong and they really try to cover it up and feel guilty about it. Sometimes they lie and they just completely forget they did that. There’s a massive spectrum of how important people think video gaming is and how much it matters to people about accomplishments.”

Musk’s gaming prowess was first called into question when he shared his character for 2022’s “Elden Ring,” a game that requires particular knowledge of its statistics and mechanics to create a functional “build” of a character. Musk’s character build made little sense, reflecting a flawed understanding of the game’s rules. It’s acts like these that make Jobst believe that Musk may just be ignorant of what it takes to be considered “good” at video games.

“It’s entirely plausible that he just doesn’t really appreciate how much effort it takes to be really good at something,” he said. “Does he actually have a good understanding of that, so when he does lie about how good he is, how much that’s disrespecting the work that actual best players are putting in?”

Jobst compared it to his own feats of juggling. He remembers seeing an old video of a performer juggling three balls in a synchronized performance to music by the Beatles. When Jobst was younger, he thought this performer was the best juggler in the world. It wasn’t until he started his own practice that he learned it takes much more skill to juggle more balls with more advanced techniques.

“I can envision someone getting into a position where they just didn’t know enough how good good actually is,” Jobst said. “Elon may not really care. He should. He’s got a lot of responsibility with his platform to not be a liar.”

 

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2 hours ago, Zeus said:

 

 

Nasa hasn't had space shuttles to get them since 2011. Boeing Starliner is a piece of shit. 

I guess relying on Soyuz makes sense since they are still going back and fourth but there's no American option to get them back. 

The ISS is going into the ocean in 5 years.

You have no fucking clue what you're talking about. 

Here is some actual, factual reporting on what is going on: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/why-did-elon-musk-just-say-trump-wants-to-bring-two-stranded-astronauts-home/

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Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced here—Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams—are not stranded on the International Space Station. There is some debate about whether there was a period last summer when the pair, who flew to the space station on a Boeing Starliner vehicle in early June, were briefly stranded. That mission was hobbled by technical issues, including problems with Starliner's propulsion system. (Ultimately, Starliner flew home without its crew.) However, since the arrival of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission with two empty seats in late September, Wilmore and Williams have had a safe ride home. The Dragon vehicle is presently docked to the space station.

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The current return date is being driven by the launch of the Crew-10 mission, also on a SpaceX vehicle. This mission is flying a new Dragon spacecraft, and SpaceX previously asked for a little more time to process and prepare the spacecraft for its debut launch. This moved the target for flying this mission from February to March 25. To meet this date, sources indicated that it's possible SpaceX may need to appropriate a different, previously flown Dragon—possibly the Dragon intended for use by the Axiom-4 mission—to complete Crew-10.

NASA would very much prefer the four astronauts on Crew-10 arrive before Crew-9 departs. Why? Because if Crew-9 were to depart sooner, it would leave just a single astronaut, Don Pettit, on board the station. Now, Pettit is a very experienced and capable astronaut, but having just a single NASA astronaut on board to operate the US segment of the station is far from optimal. In addition to leaving Pettit in a difficult position, it would cancel a planned spacewalk in March and leave just a single person to prepare a Northrop Grumman cargo spacecraft for departure. This is apparently a big deal.

"It takes time to load trash; everything has to be packed in certain bags in certain locations for various reasons," a NASA source told Ars. "For example, any batteries that are being trashed have to be in a fireproof container. Bags have to be loaded in certain locations to maintain the proper center of gravity. And you’ve got seven crew members' worth of trash that have already been waiting since the last disposal flight."

Another consideration is if Crew-10 were to slip further from its late March launch date. Pettit flew to the space station on a Russian Soyuz vehicle, and it is due to return on April 20. The Soyuz spacecraft is certified to remain in orbit for 210 days, and April 20 is already 221 days after their launch. April 20 is probably a hard end date for that mission.

So technically, yes, the "stranded" astronauts on the space station probably could come home as early as next week. But if they were to do so, it would create a lot of headaches for NASA, its international partners, and probably even for Musk's human spaceflight team at SpaceX.

 

The long and short of it is that the astronauts could literally come home whenever we want. But they and we would like them to stay up longer so that the space station is actually, you know, manned. They aren't stranded. They have their return vehicle right next to them if needed. But work is asking them to stay late so shit continues to run smoothly until the next workers arrive. Being that they are astronauts who spend their entire careers dreaming about the opportunity to go into space, I don't think they are too broken up about it. 

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30 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

It was originally scheduled to return in February and has been delayed until March "at the earliest."  I think we are all confident that these astronauts will make home safely in the relatively near future, but we don't have to pretend that this situation is super duper routine and NBD.

They could come home tomorrow if it was needed. Stop spreading bullshit. 

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4 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

They could come home tomorrow if it was needed. Stop spreading bullshit. 

They could.  And it would cause a cascade of impacts to operations on the ISS.  

Here are the facts of the situation:

1. The Boeing test crew was unable to return as scheduled.

2. Future plans were modified to allow them to return while still allowing routine operations on ISS. 

4. Crew 9 was delayed a month and went up with two members instead of four so that the Boeing test crew could return with them when they are relieved by Crew 10.  

5. Crew 10 has been delayed from a February launch until late March at the earliest.

 

So the Boeing test crew was initially stuck/stranded on the ISS due to technical issues with their return capsule.  Then they were "stuck" on the ISS due to manning shortfalls that stemmed from plan modifications to allow them to return.  Now they are "stuck" longer as their relief mission is delayed.    Saying that they could come home tomorrow is impractical bullshit.  It's NASA copium.

 

8 minutes ago, F250 said:

Yeah yeah.

Musk is going to fly in and save the day.

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That is not at all what I said.  But the fact is that NASA under the Biden administration made the call to use scheduled SpaceX flights to "save the day."

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35 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

They could.  And it would cause a cascade of impacts to operations on the ISS.  

Here are the facts of the situation:

1. The Boeing test crew was unable to return as scheduled.

2. Future plans were modified to allow them to return while still allowing routine operations on ISS. 

4. Crew 9 was delayed a month and went up with two members instead of four so that the Boeing test crew could return with them when they are relieved by Crew 10.  

5. Crew 10 has been delayed from a February launch until late March at the earliest.

 

So the Boeing test crew was initially stuck/stranded on the ISS due to technical issues with their return capsule.  Then they were "stuck" on the ISS due to manning shortfalls that stemmed from plan modifications to allow them to return.  Now they are "stuck" longer as their relief mission is delayed.    Saying that they could come home tomorrow is impractical bullshit.  It's NASA copium.

 

That is not at all what I said.  But the fact is that NASA under the Biden administration made the call to use scheduled SpaceX flights to "save the day."

How does Elon’s dick taste? Umami at the back of the tongue or bitter at the front? 
 

Who are we kidding, it doesn’t reach the back. 

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3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

How does Elon’s dick taste? Umami at the back of the tongue or bitter at the front? 
 

Who are we kidding, it doesn’t reach the back. 

I fail to see how anything I have posted in this part of the discussion could warrant this response.  Sounds like you might have some sort of fixation.  

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56 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

They could.  And it would cause a cascade of impacts to operations on the ISS.  

Here are the facts of the situation:

1. The Boeing test crew was unable to return as scheduled.

2. Future plans were modified to allow them to return while still allowing routine operations on ISS. 

4. Crew 9 was delayed a month and went up with two members instead of four so that the Boeing test crew could return with them when they are relieved by Crew 10.  

5. Crew 10 has been delayed from a February launch until late March at the earliest.

 

So the Boeing test crew was initially stuck/stranded on the ISS due to technical issues with their return capsule.  Then they were "stuck" on the ISS due to manning shortfalls that stemmed from plan modifications to allow them to return.  Now they are "stuck" longer as their relief mission is delayed.    Saying that they could come home tomorrow is impractical bullshit.  It's NASA copium.

 

That is not at all what I said.  But the fact is that NASA under the Biden administration made the call to use scheduled SpaceX flights to "save the day."

There is no doubt that Boeings issues have complicated their return and for a short period of time the method of their return was unknown and unavailable. That is stranded. They aren't stranded now. That is a bullshit framing. They could leave. It would cause headaches, but they could do it. The ISS wouldn't collapse if they did. It just wouldn't be ideal. Calling this stranded is fucking bullshit fear mongering. Stop it.  They've been asked to work overtime and they are being team players about it (partly because, you know, they are fucking astronauts). 

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27 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

Calling this stranded is fucking bullshit fear mongering. Stop it. 

You stipulate in your response that they were at one point stranded.  Until this whole situation is resolved, they are in the public consciousness "stranded astronauts." 

I agree with everything in your reply except the classification of the term "stranded" as fear-mongering.

It's not an emergency situation, but it is most certainly not business as usual.

 

All that said... it is utter bullshit that Trump and Musk are stepping up and trying to present themselves as saviors for spearheading some "new" effort to "rescue" them, as if a solid plan for the astronauts' return hasn't been in place for months.  That is 100% kayfabe. 

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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Me reading almost any thread anymore…

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The banality of bat shit crazy.

Leadership starts literally shitting in each other's mouths in public. Instead of everyone being shocked people start talking about how it could be beneficial to one's gut flora.

 

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2 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

I fail to see how anything I have posted in this part of the discussion could warrant this response.  Sounds like you might have some sort of fixation.  

Haven't you heard? Orange Man bad and a HAPA South African guy is a "Nazi traitor piece of shit" according to the totally unbiased non-cloak room thread title 

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1 hour ago, F250 said:

Elon/Trump create an outrageous narrative.

Reasonable people push back on the hyperbole.

Weird nerd jumps into the mix.

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Who cares about facts or truth or any of that shit

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O R A N G E M A N B A D 

 

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21 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Haven't you heard? Orange Man bad and a HAPA South African guy is a "Nazi traitor piece of shit" according to the totally unbiased non-cloak room thread title 

Fuck back off to the cloak room

This thread is all about Elon not the other guy

24 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Who cares about facts or truth or any of that shit

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O R A N G E M A N B A D 

 

I think you are a CIA plant put in place to get people fired up about dumb shit while the actual conversation goes miles over your head.

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30 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Who cares about facts or truth or any of that shit

 

Please provide facts or just keep shitting your pants in front of us.

Zeus proceeds to shit his pants then runs off giggling.

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2 hours ago, F250 said:

The banality of bat shit crazy.

Leadership starts literally shitting in each other's mouths in public. Instead of everyone being shocked people start talking about how it could be beneficial to one's gut flora.

 

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“It’s like trickle down economics…. Eventually, some of my Wagyu beef and lobster will be available to the common man.”

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45 minutes ago, Zeus said:

Who cares about facts or truth or any of that shit

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O R A N G E M A N B A D 

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-jewish-groups-to-leave-x-due-to-hate-antisemitism-under-elon-musk/

Fourteen groups say they are leaving the platform, including the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Keshet, Mazon, T’ruah, and the Workers Circle.

“X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division,” the groups say in a joint statement. “Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories. Musk himself has re-posted content that is antisemitic and xenophobic, promoting it to his millions of followers.”

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Just to be clear, they ain't dropping FSD driverless In Austin in June without major legal changes.

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Also Elon said he saw a path to tesla being worth the next five largest car companies combined...LOL...LMAO even

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:

@guadaloopy this doesn't sound good. Can you reassure me?

 

Yep… I’m stuck on FSD 12.5 because I have hardware 3.  Will have to get a hardware upgrade to get the newer versions.  Will be no cost to me, but will have to wait until it’s available.  Who knows when that will be.  

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2 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

Yep… I’m stuck on FSD 12.5 because I have hardware 3.  Will have to get a hardware upgrade to get the newer versions.  Will be no cost to me, but will have to wait until it’s available.  Who knows when that will be.  

They don't just send you one of these? Just messing with you man. Sucks to have to wait for something you already paid for.

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2 hours ago, immamac said:

stupidity has invaded everywhere post covid. It used to be unacceptable to be stupid, now it's completely normalized so everyone is becoming more and more stupid.

This started in 2000.

Calling out “elites” who thought they were smarter than other people. It was a successful PR strategy.

It has grown over the last 25 years. 

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10 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

Yep… I’m stuck on FSD 12.5 because I have hardware 3.  Will have to get a hardware upgrade to get the newer versions.  Will be no cost to me, but will have to wait until it’s available.  Who knows when that will be.  

You drive a fascistmobile

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Shit, it really is happening.

https://www.kxan.com/traffic/transportation/tesla-to-launch-self-driving-paid-service-in-austin-this-year/

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Tesla is planning on launching a self-driving paid service in Austin later this year, CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a Tesla earnings call Wednesday.

Musk said the “unsupervised full self-driving” service will roll out in the Texas capital in June. Musk said at a prior earnings call the self-driving service would begin in both California and Texas later this year, according to reporting from electric vehicle and Tesla news outlet Electrek

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The city of Austin confirmed Wednesday evening the Austin-based EV company has been in contact with city officials on the planned service. Tesla connected with the city of Austin’s Autonomous Vehicle Task Force, which incorporates multiple city departments, a spokesperson for the Austin Transportation and Public Works Department confirmed.

“The City treats each AV company that expresses interest in Austin the same, offering training opportunities and providing uniform information,” the spokesperson added.

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“Although cities in Texas cannot regulate AVs, Austin has worked with Autonomous Vehicle companies as they enter the market to offer staff’s knowledge on the local transportation network to help AVs operate more safely,” the spokesperson said.”

That regulatory jurisdiction lies with the state government, following the Texas Legislature’s passing of Senate Bill 2205 in 2017. That legislation made “rules uniform for AVs across the state,” with regulatory powers reserved for the state government, per city documents.

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The following AV companies are currently operating in some capacity in Austin:

  • ADMT: owned by Volkswagen and currently in the testing phase
  • AVRide: owned by AVRide INc. and currently in the testing phase
  • Motional: owned by Hyundai and currently in the mapping phase
  • Waymo: owned by Alphabet and currently in the deployment phase
  • Zoox: owned by Amazon and currently in the testing phase

Among those, Waymo is poised to launch its collaboration with ride-hailing service Uber early this year as part of a planned deployment in a few national markets, including Atlanta.

 

Is Tesla really going to do this with cameras only?

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This could go in any number of threads.  

 

https://www.theverge.com/news/603113/faa-chief-musk-dc-plane-crash-crisis

 

The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
 

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The Federal Aviation Administration is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out.

Michael Whitaker stepped down as FAA administrator on January 20th, the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration, after clashing with Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX is regulated by the agency. Musk publicly called on Whitaker to resign after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes. And now the power vacuum at the agency is coming into sharp focus after an Army helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet Wednesday evening in Washington, DC, killing everyone on board.

 

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At a press conference Thursday with rescue officials, newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ignored reporters’ questions about whether the FAA had an acting director in place to help manage the crisis.

Whitaker was only a year into the job when he announced his intention to step down. He had several years left in his term. His resignation clears the way for President Donald Trump to name his own replacement to run the agency. Later Thursday morning, Trump said he was tapping Chris Rocheleau, a top executive for an aviation business association, as acting FAA administrator, but provided no details about a permanent replacement.

 

Spoiler

Musk, a major donor to Trump, is reportedly helping the administration vet candidates to certain positions and is directing an effort to purge thousands of federal workers from all levels of the government. And while its unclear whether Musk has been directly involved in picking a new FAA administrator, the billionaire mogul has reportedly been involved in overseeing Boeing’s development of the next Air Force One jets.

But Musk’s efforts to get Whitaker were well known even before Trump’s victory in November. He has complained many times about the FAA, lashing out in September after the agency levied a $633,000 fine for launching missions with unapproved changes. (Musk is worth over $400 billion, making him the richest man in the world.)

The FAA has also fined Starlink, after the SpaceX subsidiary failed to submit safety data before launching satellites in 2022. In a House hearing, Whitaker explained that the FAA’s civil penalties were “the only tool we have to get compliance on safety matters.”

On X, Musk complained that the FAA was “harassing SpaceX about nonsense that doesn’t affect safety while giving a free pass to Boeing even after NASA concluded that their spacecraft was not safe enough to bring back the astronauts.” He also claimed that humans would never land on Mars without “radical reform at the FAA.” In September, he wrote “he needs to resign” about Whitaker.

In addition to Musk’s attacks, the FAA has long suffered from underfunding and outdated technology. In 2023, a panel of experts released a report that found that the increasing reliance of overtime to staff air traffic control facilities was putting air safety at risk. The agency has fielded hundreds of complaints from air traffic workers describing dangerous conditions from staff shortages to dilapidated buildings.

 

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Boulder police have confirmed that a bomb threat made last week on Pearl Street was targeted at The Kitchen American Bistro, a restaurant co-owned by Kimbal Musk, the brother of tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.

According to police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh, the Jan. 23 threat, of which the details were unknown to Waugh, was made via phone to the restaurant at 1039 Pearl Street.

Waugh said out of an abundance of caution, several streets were closed nearby while law enforcement investigated but nothing was found.

 

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