Elon-Sam Rivalry Next Chapter > Sam hints OpenAI has... self driving tech > that can be deployed to standard cars Looks like a pincer move to destabilize Tesla's soaring stock, and reduce ability to fundraise off the upcoming FSD launch Titanic..,.show more

TESLA’S FACTORY-FRESH CARS GO FULL AUTONOMOUS Every Tesla rolling... off the line is ready to drive itself, no babysitter needed! The Self-Driving Slam: •⁠ ⁠Factory Ready: Unmodified Teslas built for unsupervised autonomy. •⁠ ⁠No Humans Needed: Every new car can navigate solo, straight from production. •⁠ ⁠FSD Future: Tesla’s Full Self-Driving tech is now standard. Tesla’s cranking out driverless rides from day one! Source: Elon Muskshow more

TESLA FSD + COFFEE? YOUR COMMUTE JUST GOT A... LATTE BETTER Tesla allows you to brew espresso on the move—while Full Self-Driving handles the ride like a pro! Tesla’s FSD tech is flexing its magic: •⁠ ⁠Hands-Free Wizardry: FSD handles the wheel—sip your coffee, no stress. •⁠ ⁠Safety Swagger: Camera-based Tesla Vision keeps you secure on the go. •⁠ ⁠Future Vibes: FSD’s always upgrading—driving just keeps getting cooler. From caffeine kicks to cutting-edge tech, Tesla’s redefining the ride! Source: Elon Musk, lucapasturinishow more

TESLA FSD WANTS YOU TO LET GO - OF... THE WHEEL. ARE YOU CHICKEN? For $99, take the future for a joyride - no strings, no steering! Tesla's FSD tech from the future is here - why drive it like a rental? The FSD Tease: • 30 days of driverless swagger - less stress, more stunt • Updates dropping faster than your driving confidence • Your Tesla’s got skills - time to let it show off Stop lurking - take it for a spin already! Source: Elon Muskshow more

Sam Seder said he wanted to go up to... me and be like ‘you realize what Xenophobia means right?’ Yeah I just don’t care lol. Someone like Sam thinks it’s ’Xenophobic’ to even have a border. I’ll call myself the mean name first so that we can get to an actual conversationshow more

.Elon Musk says that "the right metric for intelligence... is the ability to predict the future." Elon says that if your predictions are not very good, you're not that smart. During his interview with CNBC, Elon confirmed that there would be fully autonomous Teslas on the streets of Austin by the end of June. I predicted that Tesla would not have non-geofenced, unsupervised Full Self-Driving Teslas in Austin by July 1. Today is July 1, and Elon's predictions were completely wrong. By his own definition of intelligence, he is not that smart. I have always been better at predicting things about Tesla Full Self-Driving than Elon Musk is. That's why No Safe Words crowned me the "world's leading autonomous vehicle safety expert". As I predicted, Tesla's "Robotaxi" is geofenced to a small area in Austin. It is not autonomous, and is supervised both remotely and from the passenger seat. The only passengers it has carried so far are Tesla Cultists and shareholders. Tesla has not launched a real robotaxi service like the one Waymo operates. The 11 supervised robotaxis it has deployed made at least 17 safety critical and driving errors in just the first week of operation. Elon predicted in October 2024 that Tesla would have a 30% growth in sales in 2025. Tesla's sales fell 13% in Q1 2025 and tomorrow's delivery numbers are expected to be similarly terrible. I predict that Tesla's sales growth in 2025 will be less than 30%. Elon also predicted every year for the past 11 years that Tesla would solve autonomous driving by the end of the year. His predictions have been wrong every single year for over a decade. I predict that Tesla will not solve autonomous driving this year. Elon says "you're as intelligent as you can predict the future well". He is terrible at predicting the future, so according to "the right metric for intelligence", he is not that smart. Elon also predicted that Tesla would have a "thousand" robotaxis "within a few months" during his CNBC interview. I predict that by October 1, Tesla will not have 1,000 robotaxis offering unsupervised rides to ordinary customers.show more

#ONEPIECE1160 We all know “16” is connected to Imu.... I fear this next chapter is going to be even sadder than the last two. I want Xebec to still be alive, but I feel like Oda is about to give him a send off that might be even greater than Roger’s and Whitebeard’s 😢show more

.28 seconds reaction time. With the click of a... button you’ll be able to automatically create a video that measures FSD’s reaction time using CamCutApp. Probably my favorite feature One area where I’d like to see FSD improve: recognizing high-occlusion environments. Densely parked cars next to hidden driveways create situations where a vehicle can suddenly appear with little warning for either driver. Tesla AIshow more

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk indicates he's SUING Rep. Ro... Khanna (D) after Khanna said Elon needs to answer for '4.5 million kids dying' because of DOGE cuts ELON: "Time to sue this liar." "The reality is that money was being sent to corrupt politicians under the guise of aid! Liars and stock insider traders like Ro the Robber should be in prison!!" "The standard applied by DOGE was very simple and easy: Provide contact information for the recipients of aid, so that we can confirm it is not fraudulent." Wow! Elon Musk is going MAXIMUM FAFO MODE!show more

Tesla FSD hits differently when you stop looking at... it like a gadget and start looking at it like accessibility. For people living with disabilities, chronic pain, or mobility limitations, reducing the physical demand of driving can completely change what daily life feels like. More energy. More independence. More freedom to move around normally. That’s way bigger than “car tech.” It’s life-changing. Teslashow more

A Tesla on Full Self-Driving blows through a stop... sign at 35mph and nearly collides with two cars. The kicker is that this was during a livestream debate-demo-drive between FSD fan Ross Gerber and FSD skeptic Dan O'Dowd. This should go without saying, but for an automated system to be at the safety level of a human, this cannot happen. The fact that this occurred yesterday during THIS drive (along with other safety-critical disengagements) should serve as statistical evidence of how frequent this is occurring. IMO, this is the biggest nail in the Tesla FSD coffin.show more

Ronan Farrow just did to Sam Altman what he... did to Harvey Weinstein... The New Yorker dropped an 18-month investigation this morning based on 100+ interviews and a stack of internal documents that were never supposed to leave OpenAI. Ilya's secret memos, Dario Amodei's private journal. Board communications, the full picture of who Sam Altman is when the cameras are off. And the pattern starts way before OpenAI. At his first startup Loopt, senior employees went to the board and asked them to fire Sam as CEO. This happened twice, over concerns about leadership and transparency. He left, joined Y Combinator, and the same thing played out. Partners complained to Paul Graham about Sam's behavior. Graham's private take to colleagues: Sam had been lying to us all the time. Nobody removed him, he kept getting promoted. Eventually he landed the CEO seat at what is now the most consequential AI company in the world. Inside OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever spent months compiling evidence: 70 pages of Slack messages, HR documents, and photos taken on personal phones because employees knew company devices were being monitored. He sent everything to the board as disappearing messages so Sam couldn't make it go away. The very first line of his memo lists Sam's core pattern, and the first word on that list is: Lying Dario Amodei saw the same thing and handled it differently. He kept a private journal for years, over 200 pages, titled "My Experience with OpenAI" with a subheading that said "Private: Do Not Share" After all those pages, his conclusion was one sentence: the problem with OpenAI is Sam himself. He eventually left and built Anthropic. 2 of the smartest people in AI independently reached the same verdict. Neither could stop what was happening. The superalignment team, the group responsible for making sure AI doesn't go off the rails, was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute. 4 people who worked on or with the team told The New Yorker the real number was 1-2%, running on the oldest cluster with the worst hardware. The team got dissolved before finishing its work. Safety was a talking point, not a priority. Sam told the board that a safety panel had approved controversial features in GPT-4. When board member Helen Toner asked for the documentation, it turned out the most sensitive features had never been approved at all. Separately, Microsoft released an early version of ChatGPT in India without completing a required safety review and Sam never mentioned it to the board. When the board finally fired him in November 2023, he texted Satya Nadella directly with his own replacement board lineup. Thrive Capital put its planned $86B investment on hold and signaled it would only close if Sam came back, giving every OpenAI employee a financial reason to support his return. The 2 board members selected to run the "independent investigation" into Sam's conduct were chosen after close conversations with Sam himself. He engineered his own reinstatement and nobody blinked. The New Yorker quotes a board member describing Sam as having two traits you almost never see in the same person: a desperate need to be liked in every interaction, and a near-complete indifference to the consequences of deceiving someone. Multiple sources used the word "sociopathic" without being prompted and without talking to each other. The article also drops a line that might be the best summary of the whole thing. They compare Sam to Steve Jobs and his famous "reality distortion field" then point out that even Jobs never told his customers that if they didn't buy his MP3 player, everyone they loved would die. Sam wrapped that exact pitch in the language of AI safety and rode it to a potential $1T IPO. That IPO is being prepared right now, while OpenAI signs government contracts spanning immigration enforcement, domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons deployed in active war zones. Meanwhile, The Information reports that his own CFO told colleagues she doesn't believe the company is ready to go public in 2026. Farrow is answering questions on Hacker News right now. The full piece is open access. Read it before Sam figures out how to make this disappear tooshow more

Looks like I got caught on GT 7 Pro... while prepping my speech for tomorrow's AI Strategy Launch Event! But wow, check this out—its AI Zoom Ultra Clarity is no joke! How can a shot from that far away be so crystal clear? I might need to watch my back! #DarkHorseofAIshow more

FSD literally saved my life and my wife’s tonight.... Watch carefully - a car suddenly races in and merges into our lane with almost zero gap at highway speed. On the footage it’s hard to tell just how close it was, but in that exact moment me and my wife both thought “there’s no way a human could react fast enough.” FSD did. In milliseconds it calculated the distance to our front bumper and instantly slowed down perfectly, leaving safe room. Slow-mo shows exactly how razor-close it was. This wasn’t a minor correction… this was a massive accident avoided because of Full Self-Driving. This is why we trust Full Self-Driving with our family. Thank you, Tesla . This tech is next level.show more

Like Sam “Octane” Larew has said, these "nerd" spots... SHOULD be rewarded - it's a knowledge gap since teams put in the time to learn and implement them. You can talk about GA'ing them after the Major. Perfect example: MW3 NYSL pulled out ordinance grenades to 3-piece OpTic. Ordinance glove got GA'd after.show more

Are you safer with LIDAR, or are you safer... with vision? This is a false dichotomy. The more pertinent question today is "do you have something, or do you have nothing?" As you can see from the clips below, vision based systems avoid countless potential collisions every day. The difference between a crash and no crash isn't what sensor suite you chose — it's whether you have any AI on your car at all. Even if we concede that LIDAR may help prevent some additional crashes, we are really debating whether it is 1% of crashes or 0.00001% of crashes. Not all crashes are super complex and require lasers to detect. Most are simple, routine, and can easily be prevented by today's vision based AI. In fact, evidence is mounting that computer vision based systems can actually outperform more traditional approaches to self-driving. Why? Because the low cost of cameras enables you to create a much larger, more varied, and more diverse dataset. If you want to have expensive custom cars that's fine, but you're going to get fewer vehicles for the same budget. Seeing what's in front of you now is actually less important than predicting what's going to happen next — and the large scale datasets used to train pure vision systems are the best for predicting what's next. Counter-intuitively, the simpler and lower cost sensor actually has properties that make it better suited for training advanced AI. Computer vision based self-driving is often framed by LIDAR proponents as "cheaping out" on the sensor suite to save money. But it's not about being cheap, it's about bringing the technology to everyone. 1.2 million people die on the road every year around the world. That's around 39 million people who've died on the roads around the world since I was born — equivalent to a city the size of Tokyo or New Delhi getting wiped off the map. The status quo is simply unacceptable, and something has to be done to fix it as soon as possible. Of the 1.2 million people that will die on the roads this year, about 40,000 will be Americans. That's about 3%. So if we moved entirely to self-driving cars in America and brought crashes down to 0, 97% of the world's crash fatalities would still be taking place as usual. Deploying a $200,000+ retrofitted self-driving car may work in a few American cities, but it is not going to make sense in most places around the world where fares are much cheaper. Most often, the choice is not between LIDAR and vision. It's between vision or nothing. The best system is the system that's there running on my car when I need it to save my life. To say that all self-driving cars must have LIDAR is to sentence most of the world to death. We can't write off computer vision if we want to make a serious dent in this problem. It's going to be a key piece of the solution. Let LIDAR based players build the best self-driving car they can, and let vision based players do the same. We need to be trying everythingshow more

🇺🇸 FULL SELF-DRIVING MEETS FULL-TIME CO-PILOT - TESLA ADDS... GROK TO THE RIDE Tesla just unveiled “Tesla Ride," a hook-up that lets you experience Full Self-Driving while Grok AI rides along like your own personal co-pilot. You simply sit back while the car handles traffic and your AI buddy tells stories, answers questions, and probably doesn't judge your music taste. It’s rolling out across the U.S. from now through December, giving people a chance to see how far FSD has come. Bottom line: you can now get a car that drives itself with a road trip friend who never cancels or complains about taking the long way. Source: TESLARATIshow more

SAM ALTMAN LAST YEAR ON HIS OPENAI STAKE: “I... make no money from OpenAI. I’m doing this because I love it.” Dude. Whenever someone says they aren’t “doing it for the money,” just realize…100% of the time…they are lying to you. Every single person on this planet is greedy beyond imagination. People can do things authentically and in a way that they believe truly is ethical but ANYONE who is doing something ambitious (and rightly so) has a plan to eventually make money. MONEY MAKES THE WORLD SPIN. There are ethical and unethical ways to make it, but every single person wants more of it. Sam Altman is now worth $10.5B, becoming the 250th richest person overnight, if his reported stake of 7% in OpenAI becomes actualized.show more