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On 6/15/2025 at 6:58 AM, Schulz2.0 said:

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The best thing about that is that Kalama/Longview are deep in the heart of the Alabama of Western Washington. It's as MAGA as a D+20 state gets. Love this thing. 

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On 6/16/2025 at 9:38 AM, atomheartbevo said:

 

June 22nd, Tesla Robotaxi in Austin, mark it on your calendars!

Tell your kids you love them before they get mowed down in the street. 

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10 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Is it me, or does it seem like this asshole is legitimately trying to retreat from the public eye?

Nevar Forget...

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Not really, we just haven't been talking about him much. He was actually on a bender this weekend talking about Vance Boelter, the assassin that killed Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and wounding John Hoffman.
 

 

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4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

  

 

 

Not really, we just haven't been talking about him much. He was actually on a bender this weekend talking about Vance Boelter, the assassin that killed Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and wounding John Hoffman.
 

 

Oh, good, glad to see he's still shit posting.  I was starting to think he was unwell.

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21 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

 

the crazy thing is - spending an ever growing amount of money for even smaller returns doesn't matter. As long as you can show GROWTH all sins are washed away, white as snow

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On 6/14/2025 at 12:28 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

Does it need to be flawless, or does it need to do as well as the average licensed driver?  Because drivers make mistakes and ignore rules of the road all the time. 

I sincerely hope we are setting the bar significantly higher than the average licensed human driver.  The average licensed human driver shouldn't be licensed at all.

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2 minutes ago, elfenix said:

There's a reason nvda is to the moon

It's really absurd the degree to which the entire American economic system relies exclusively on the chip fabs of Taiwan. If China were to just go shake that island a little bit, NVDA and the entire stock market would shit itself

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6 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

I sincerely hope we are setting the bar significantly higher than the average licensed human driver.  The average licensed human driver shouldn't be licensed at all.

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1 hour ago, Captain Ron said:

 

 

 

from that article:

Now, Musk is on record saying that Tesla will only launch the service in a limited area in Austin and even avoid certain intersections that Tesla is not sure it can handle:

We will geo‑fence it. It’s not going to take intersections unless we are highly confident it’s going to do well with that intersection. Or it will just take a route around that intersection.

In addition to geofencing, Tesla is also utilizing teleoperation to control vehicles with human operators remotely.

We reported last year when Tesla started building a “teleoperation team.”

Despite Tesla originally planning to launch the robotaxi service on June 12, and now “tentatively” on June 22, the automaker posted a new job listing days ago for engineers to help build a low-latency teleoperation system to operate its “self-driving” cars and robots

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Musk claims that Tesla is being “super paranoid” about safety, but you have to take his word for it.

We have pointed it out before, but it’s worth repeating: Waymo tested its self-driving vehicles in Austin for six months with safety drivers and then for another six months without safety drivers before launching its autonomous ride-hailing service in the city.

As for Tesla, it tested its vehicles with safety drivers throughout Austin for a few months. Then, Musk announced in late May, only weeks before the planned launch, that it had started testing without safety drivers.

Despite many people being on the lookout for these driverless Tesla Robotaxis, they were only spotted for the first time last week.

Since then, only two confirmed Tesla vehicles without drivers have been spotted testing.

Furthermore, several of those vehicles were spotted with Tesla employees in the front passenger seat. While Musk claims that there are “no safety driver”, these “passengers” pay attention at all times and have access to a kill switch to stop the vehicle.

They virtually operate like “safety drivers”, but they are on the passenger seat rather than the driver’s seat.

Tesla is currently still in the “testing” phase based on the listing with the state regulators, which also mentions “no” safety drivers

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Related to the above article about production pauses

Tesla stock falls after report EV maker is pausing production in Texas

Tesla Plans to Pause Cybertruck, Model Y Production July 4 Week - Business Insider

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Tesla shares slid 4% on Tuesday after a report that the electric vehicle maker was halting production of Cybertruck and Model Y models for a week in Austin, Texas.

The production stoppage begins June 30, Business Insider reported, citing a staff meeting where the announcement was made. The pause, which is for maintenance on production lines, would be the third such shutdown at the Austin facility in the past year, according to BI.

 

 

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2 hours ago, tbone_ said:

wtf costs a billion a month?

 

Elon's drug habit?

But seriously - given how he throws money around, them burning through that kind of cash is not that crazy. I mean that crazy big data center powered by portable generators. The fact that he probably is paying the hell out of his team, even if they are substandard (see Meta offering $100 Million to Open AI employees)
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-meta-offered-013520184.html

 

Them lighting cash on fire wouldn't shock me in the least.

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9 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Texas law makers are fine with kids getting shot in schools and old people freezing to death in their homes but even this is too dangerous. 
 

 

They just need bigger campaign contributions from Musk. Then it will all go away. 

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From the KXAN article above about the robotaxi, how long until a special session is called to help Tesla out?

A group of Texas lawmakers sent a letter to Tesla urging the company to delay its robotaxi operations in Austin. Tesla reportedly planned to launch the self-driving service on Sunday, June 22.

The letter said the Texas Legislature approved a revision to the state’s 2017 autonomous vehicle operations framework. It mentioned how this new law goes into effect this September.

“Under the new framework, commercial autonomous vehicle operators transporting passengers or property must receive prior authorization from the Department of Motor Vehicles before operating on public streets without a human driver,” the letter read.

In order to get that authorization, an operator must demonstrate each vehicle is:

  • Capable of operating in compliance with state traffic laws
  • Equipped with a recording device
  • Compliant with federal law, including federal motor vehicle safety standards
  • Capable of achieving a minimal risk condition if the automated driving system is rendered inoperable
  • Registered, titled, and insured under Texas law

Along with those requirements, operators have to submit a First Responder Interaction Plan to the Department of Public Safety to explain the following:

  • How first responders interact with the autonomous vehicles
  • How to communicate with fleet support and safely remove or tow vehicles from the roadway
  • Any additional information regarding hazardous conditions or public safety risks associated with the vehicles

“As members of the Austin delegation in the Texas Senate and Texas House of Representatives, we are formally requesting that Tesla delay autonomous robotaxi operations until the new law takes effect on September 1, 2025. We believe this is in the best interest of both public safety and building public trust in Tesla’s operations,” the letter read.

The letter said if Tesla still proceeds with its plans to launch this month, they request the company responds to this letter with detailed information demonstrating that Tesla will be “compliant with the new law upon the launch of driverless operations in Austin.”

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Since it's the Austin delegation, I'm guessing it's Democrats, but as somebody pointed out, Musk doesn't have a lot of friends on the right side of the anymore, so between Texas ambulance chasers and somebody looking to make a name for themselves, Tesla better not fuck this up. And don't think Trump won't be above mocking the shit out of him/having the NTSB look into any accidents if they fuck this up. When he's done with you, he's usually done with you, and I doubt Musk realizes that. He seems to operate under the belief that if you delete a tweet, it's no harm, no foul.

And these stricter protocols were put in place by the R's, and the fact that Musk said they were making sure to avoid certain intersections as being "problematic" I think was the wording, was hilarious.

I'm going to guess that it won't happen in June.  Or July.

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On 6/17/2025 at 9:09 PM, Captain Ron said:

 

Elon's drug habit?

But seriously - given how he throws money around, them burning through that kind of cash is not that crazy. I mean that crazy big data center powered by portable generators. The fact that he probably is paying the hell out of his team, even if they are substandard (see Meta offering $100 Million to Open AI employees)
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-meta-offered-013520184.html

 

Them lighting cash on fire wouldn't shock me in the least.

seems like they need Big Ballz to doge Tesla and his other companies.

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For those of you not in the Austin area, Waymo is all over west campus and up and down Lamar.  I used to see 1-2 per day but it's now up to 7-10 per day.  A few days ago, I was stopped at a light on 29th st behind two Waymos, and a Waymo passed us going the other direction.  Unlike human drivers in Austin, the Waymo goes when the light turns green because the robot is not doing the Wordle while waiting at the red light.

It's a great solution for students that don't have a car, but need transportation a few times per week.  It's integrated with Uber so that you don't know if you are getting a human or a robot when you order Uber.  You opt-in to Waymo in the Uber app and if one is available It just shows up.

It's very impressive technology.  I think Tesla's Robotaxi has about a year to catch up before Waymo becomes the Kleenex/Xerox of the self-driving taxi industry.  I will be very surprised if Tesla does it.  I expect Elon to abandon the effort in a year or two and say "we are focusing on robots" or something like that. 

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gotta say, NASASpaceflight on youtube got a GREAT shot with their telephoto camera in starbase. The crazy thing - it detonated like this WHILE FUELING! It wasn't even firing any engines!

The video has some really pretty explosion porn though. Slo-motion and everything

 

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