John Kraus
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FSD v14.1: INCREDIBLE. My car drove me across multiple highways en route to the Orlando airport, where it entered the parking garage, parked, exited, and perfectly executed the ticket booth interaction - without ANY input from me. It handled other cars and a construction worker on a ladder. It knew to not enter the reserved floor of the garage, which was blocked by a gate. It also ignored floors with “level full” signs, although this might be a coincidence given it went straight to the top level. I routed it to a nearby Supercharger, it flawlessly exited the garage, and it drove to the charger, where as expected, it parked flawlessly. My car could not do this yesterday. Overnight, it received a software update to enable this new behavior. You have to experience this to truly appreciate it. Incredible.
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FSD v14.1 yields to an ambulance using the opposite lane to bypass traffic After hearing and seeing the ambulance behind me, FSD began creeping into the adjacent right lane, but another vehicle blocked me from moving farther. FSD then paused, allowing the ambulance to pass, before continuing. I’m not sure a human driver could’ve handled this much differently — there was nowhere to go short of flooring it to get in front of the car to my right, which in my view would have felt reckless in case the ambulance needed to get into that gap. Simply creeping a bit to the right, pausing and waiting, knowing the ambulance had already committed to driving against the flow of traffic, seems like the safest move. Either way, this is a significant improvement over prior versions! Your thoughts?
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It was such an honor to help design this “Snap” coin that flew alongside four crew coins on the Polaris Dawn mission and an even greater honor to see it fly to space. Thank you to our artist friend Erin Bonilla for beautifully turning this idea into reality. I was so blown away when the crew graciously offered this opportunity - thank you - I can’t wait to put the flown coin on display and will cherish it forever. Some insight on the design: The seven stars represent the seven astronauts I have been lucky to befriend from Inspiration4 to Polaris Dawn: Jared, Sian, Hayley, Chris, Kidd, Sarah, and Anna. My silhouette is seen capturing a Falcon 9 rising in front of sunrise, based off one of my all-time favorite photos, but with the fairing swapped out for a Dragon. Other elements include palm trees and birds representing my appreciation for the local Florida nature around the Cape. In the video you can see the flown coin floating in space. Earlier in the mission it reached new heights in Earth orbit during a crewed mission and then was exposed to the vacuum of space during the mission’s spacewalk. The still image is another unit, not flown, captured a few months ago when I saw the coin in-person for the first time. I have kept it on my person for much of the last few months as a good luck token and reminder of the exciting space program whose stories I am lucky to help share. I had it with me all throughout launch day and on the VAB roof during liftoff, knowing that a copy - and a small part of me - was joining the crew in space. Many were made, and one each for the four crew and myself flew - but each coin has a small magnetic insert that pops out. Hundreds of those smaller inserts flew, and we will be able to pop in those small flown parts into the non-flown coins, such that hundreds of coins will have a part that flew. Thanks Jared Isaacman for the video! So cool - forever grateful.
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Reaction video to the first-ever Super Heavy catch… this is what I live for — when a history-defining moment in spaceflight becomes a memory and is immortalized through our imagery, forever… I am so grateful to chase these thrills with the best of friends. D Wise
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It’s great to see such passion lately for space exploration - our nation is on a path to go back to the Moon and onward to Mars! Can’t wait to see Jared Isaacman leading the charge at NASA to usher America into its next golden age of space exploration. And in doing so, we’ll make life better on Earth. I think a lot about Jared’s words as he exited his spacecraft during the first-ever commercial spacewalk last year: “Back at home we all have a lot of work to do, but from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.” I am hopeful Senate Commerce Republicans and Ted Cruz will soon hold a vote with the whole U.S. Senate to enable Jared to get to work ASAP!
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