Deaf Tesla Guy. Long Island native. @nyislanders Fan. @shumenslax alumni '05. $TSLA investor 🚵‍♂️🏂🥍🏒
Auburn, CA
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I'm deaf and can't hear sirens, but my Tesla FSD pulled over instantly for an ambulance. I caught it on the app screen record. This is why FSD is huge for deaf drivers: it “hears” what I can't and keeps everyone safer. 🚑🤖 #Tesla #FSD #DeafCommunity #Accessibility
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Tesla has launched a Times Square billboard ad for FSD for the first time. It will play the rest of this month.
“7x safer than a human when engaged. 15+ billion miles driven globally.”
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On November 8, 2026 around 5:30 PM on Highway 65 near Galleria Blvd / Stanford Ranch Rd in Roseville, rocks and debris fell from the open trailer of a green Ram pickup (trailer plate 4NX4124) and struck my windshield, causing a star crack. I have dashcam footage. I filed a CHP Counter Report. If anyone recognizes this truck/trailer or has information that could help with an insurance claim, please DM me. Thank you. – at Roseville, CA
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Tesla has just officially announced that their Robotaxi service now operates 24-hours a day in every city that rides are available!
• Austin
• San Antonio
• Houston
• Fort Worth
• Dallas
• Miami
• Orlando
• Tampa
Big milestone!
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My brother’s friend drives a Tesla. This is 3 videos of the same accident. The Tesla, on self drive, sees the approaching car coming from behind at excessive speed and moves out of the way. Driver of speeding car was killed. Amazing technology @elonmusk.
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Elon Musk says that the Tesla Cybercab will do a majority of all passenger miles in places where it’s allowed to operate.
This may sound crazy to a lot of people, but when you really think how Tesla designed this platform, it makes sense:
• 80-90% of trips are done with 2 or less people.
• Cybercab will be so cost-effective to book that it won’t make sense to even own a car.
• Cybercabs will replace many privately owned vehicles since the utilization rate is so high.
• It will be much safer than anything else.
• Wait times will be next to nothing at scale
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Zero fatalities in any of these thanks to Tesla’s glass roof.
Tesla's all-glass roofs pass the same federal roof-crush test as metal roofs. Tesla has said the Model 3's glass roof held about four times the car's own weight in that test, which is well over the federal minimum of three times.
In 2013, Tesla said the Model S roof broke the testing machine at more than four times its weight before the roof gave way.
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The Tesla Cybertruck was DEFINITELY ahead of its time. It’s not even a hot take.
• 48V architecture
• Steer-by-wire
• 800V high-voltage architecture
• Large-scale giga castings
• Etherloop (Gigabit Ethernet-based vehicle network)
• Structural battery and body integration techniques
• Bidirectional charging and Home Powershare
• Modular battery pack
• Dry-electrode battery cell process
• Stainless steel body that doesn’t dent or scratch
• Plus so much more.
Many of these technologies are already feeding into Cybercab and Semi and will carry into Tesla’s next-generation vehicles.
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Tesla has submitted a new letter to NHTSA, urging the federal government to modernize U.S. vehicle lighting regulations.
Tesla argues that existing regulations were designed for traditional headlights, not modern matrix LED systems that use vehicle cameras to detect other vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists and dynamically adjust light beams to improve visibility and reduce glare.
Tesla also wants regulations to account for lighting improvements delivered through over-the-air software updates and is pushing for automakers to have greater representation in shaping the new rules.
Tesla: "We do not treat lighting as an isolated supplier module whose only “sensor” is a dusk photocell. Lighting behavior is informed by the same surround-camera suite that continuously observes the driving scene: oncoming headlamps, preceding taillamps, pedestrians, cyclists, lane geometry, and ambient illumination. Semiautomatic beam switching and adaptive driving beam functions are therefore scene understanding problems, not binary light-threshold problems.
Tesla has concerns about NHTSA’s proposed composition of the advisory committee tasked with reaching consensus recommendations. Specifically, Tesla urges the agency to increase the number of individual vehicle manufacturer committee members from the current proposal of just two representatives. The current proposal does not accurately reflect the interests of individual motor vehicle manufacturers, particularly when those interests will not be represented by a trade or industry association member of the committee."
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A battery cost $600 per kilowatt-hour. The materials it’s made of, according to Elon Musk, cost about $80.
REPORTER: Where does that gap come from?
ELON MUSK: Most people reason by analogy. They say batteries will always be expensive because they’ve always been expensive. That’s pretty dumb.
REPORTER: Why?
ELON MUSK: If you applied that reasoning to anything new, you’d never get to the new thing. You can’t say, “Horses are great, we’re used to them, and there’s no gasoline to buy, so nobody will ever want a car.” And people did say that.
REPORTER: So how should you reason?
ELON MUSK: From first principles, not by analogy. Normally we do something because it’s like something that was done before, or because other people are doing it.
REPORTER: What are first principles?
ELON MUSK: The physics way of looking at the world. You boil things down to the most fundamental truths and reason up from there.
REPORTER: Why doesn’t everyone do that?
ELON MUSK: Because it takes a lot more mental energy.
REPORTER: Can you give an example?
ELON MUSK: Batteries. Historically it’s $600 per kilowatt-hour, and they say it won’t get much better. I ask something else: what is it made of?
REPORTER: And what is it made of?
ELON MUSK: Cobalt, nickel, aluminum, carbon, some polymers for separation, and a sealed can.
REPORTER: And what does that cost?
ELON MUSK: At London Metal Exchange prices it comes to something like $80 per kilowatt-hour.
REPORTER: So that’s almost eight times less. What do you do with that?
ELON MUSK: Come up with clever ways to combine those materials into the shape of a battery cell. And then batteries can be much cheaper than anyone realizes.
ELON MUSK: “A conta de luz da IA é alta demais? Então, basta construir um data center no espaço”
“Em vez de economizar energia na Terra, a ideia de se mudar para o espaço”
REPÓRTER: “A IA consome uma quantidade absurda de eletricidade, né?”
ELON MUSK: “É verdade.”
REPÓRTER: “E isso vai aumentar ainda mais no futuro?”
ELON MUSK: “Se a IA evoluir, a demanda por energia também vai crescer, provavelmente.”
REPÓRTER: “Então a conta de luz vai ser um problemão!”
ELON MUSK: “Por isso vamos usar o espaço.”
REPÓRTER: “.... Hein?”
ELON MUSK: “Vamos construir um data center para IA no espaço.”
REPĂ“RTER: “PeraĂ, a gente tava falando de conta de luz, cara”
ELON MUSK: “E é exatamente isso que eu tô respondendo.”
REPÓRTER: “Por que raios no espaço, mano?!”
ELON MUSK: “Porque dá pra usar energia solar.”
REPÓRTER: “Energia solar a gente já usa aqui na Terra, né?”
ELON MUSK: “Mas na Terra tem noite, não tem?”
REPÓRTER: “É, tem sim.”
ELON MUSK: “E a geração varia por causa do clima.”
REPÓRTER: “Hmm, entendi.”
ELON MUSK: “No espaço, ajustando a órbita, dá pra captar luz solar por muito mais tempo.”
REPÓRTER: “Então você vai colocar painéis solares no espaço?”
ELON MUSK: “Exatamente isso.”
REPÓRTER: “Mas os computadores da IA não esquentam pra caramba?”
ELON MUSK: “Claro que geram calor.”
REPÓRTER: “No espaço não tem ar-condicionado, né?”
ELON MUSK: “A gente usa dispositivos de dissipação de calor.”
REPÓRTER: “Dispositivos de dissipação?”
ELON MUSK: “Os painéis solares ficam virados pro Sol.”
REPÓRTER: “Tá.”
ELON MUSK: “Do lado oposto, colocamos equipamentos que liberam o calor pro vácuo do espaço.”
REPÓRTER: “Entendi!”
ELON MUSK: “É a radiação do calor pro espaço sideral.”
REPÓRTER: “Então o resfriamento é de graça!?”
ELON MUSK: “Não, ainda precisa de equipamentos.”
REPÓRTER: “Que é que é isso?”
ELON MUSK: “Mas dá pra criar um sistema bem mais eficiente.”
REPĂ“RTER: “E aĂ, pra quando isso rola?”
ELON MUSK: “Em 2 ou 3 anos, acho que o espaço vai ser o lugar mais barato pra rodar IA.”
REPÓRTER: “... 2 ou 3 anos!?”
ELON: “É o que eu prevejo.”
REPÓRTER: “Rápido demais, cara”
ELON MUSK: “O progresso da tecnologia é acelerado.”
REPÓRTER: “Mas pra levar tudo de foguete, gasta uma grana preta!”
ELON MUSK: “É aà que tá o pulo do gato.”
REPÓRTER: “Como assim?”
ELON MUSK: “Precisa reduzir drasticamente o custo de lançamento.”
REPÓRTER: “Ah, sei...”
ELON MUSK: “Se o transporte pro espaço ficar barato, as opções se abrem.”
REPÓRTER: “Ou seja, foguetes e IA tão todos interligados!?”
ELON MUSK: “É nesse futuro que eu tô pensando.”
REPÓRTER: “Cara, essa visão já não é de humano da Terra”
ELON MUSK: “Tem possibilidades fora da Terra também.”
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Elon has nearly 160,000 direct employees throughout his companies and supports almost 870,000 jobs.
Over five years, based on conservative estimates, @elonmusk’s companies have injected $338 billion into the US economy.
@Tesla makes the first and second most American made cars.
@SpaceX made the first fully reusable rocket and the world’s largest satellite internet constellation.
As Axios says: his “companies are central to America's technological and military power.”
In the end, the only people the Democrats will hurt are the American people.
Elon Musk's empire braces for Democratic crackdown axios.com/2026/11/09/elon-mu…
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SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
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Ron Baron, in a new CNBC interview this morning, on how Elon Musk is the only one who can build things at scale economically:
“He’s the biggest job creator in the country. You have people who are speaking against him and all he cares about is working all these different hours, crazy hours and sleep four or five hours a night.
He has been responsible for reindustrializing our country. He’s probably the only person in this country who is able to build things at scale, at attractive prices. Only one.
Talking about Terafab. That happens to be a 100M sq ft building. He’s the only way to build these things at scale. And and when he does that, that’s job creation. He’s creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and making not just making people more successful and giving them better life, but hundreds of thousands of jobs, millions of jobs.”
People still don’t get it. In 2008, @elonmusk was pitching a $109k car in a living room while Tesla was days from bankruptcy. He built it from scratch, took minimum wage, and bet everything on the vision. Now the results speak for themselves. The hate says more about the haters than it does about him.
Whenever I feel demotivated, I rewatch this...
Elon Musk in a living room in 2008, 12 days from bankruptcy, pitching a $109,000 car to people...
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I actually feel bad for Elon, even though I deeply disagree with him on some things.
Imagine trying to build a car company in California in the mid-2000s, when American manufacturing is being completely offshored and almost all of Wall Street thinks you’re a joke and is rooting for your failure, while the entire oil and gas industry is using all their power and leverage to make you fail.
But against all odds, you actually pull it off. You build cars that make electric vehicles desirable to millions of people, create an enormous number of quality American jobs, and force the global car industry to play catch up and move away from oil and gas.
You would think California would be proud of you and the team. Instead you find yourself having to fight a completely corrupt and incompetent left government impeding all your efforts while you sleep at the factory night after night to avoid collapse. At some point, you would go to the right too.
And because of your politics, it becomes a justification for people to celebrate your companies failing in their personal ideological fight with you. Even threats against you become something people explain away and use mental gymnastics to justify.
Meanwhile, people like Scott Galloway and Bernie Sanders who have made absolutely nobody better off other than themselves get to lecture you about your value to society and even call for your murder without grounds from their vacation home while you're on 20 hour benders in your factories trying to get things built for all of society. If this were me I would lose my mind.
Criticize his opinions. I do sometimes, especially on Ukraine. But the pleasure people take in wanting to destroy everything he’s built is hideous and frankly suicidal for the masses, especially coming from people who insist they care about workers, the climate, and civilization as a whole.
As you try to make good things for society you are confronted with a world that worships people who care only about the perception of being good people, while they actually fight against your tangible efforts of making improvements for humanity.
I don't think almost anyone would have made it out of that and if they did, they would probably not come away feeling so warm towards the left either. So I am rooting for Elon to succeed, and for humanity.
Close call on the highway this morning.
Toyota Camry got extremely close on my right side (multiple angles). Looked like the driver was drifting, not paying attention or possibly impaired.
Tesla FSD stayed centered in my lane and handled the situation automatically. No intervention from me.
I have four different camera angles of the same incident. Sharing a couple here.
This is why I trust FSD, especially as a deaf driver who relies on the visual + autonomy stack.
#Tesla #FSD #FullSelfDriving #Safety
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Notice how the headlines work.
A Toyota crashes: "Driver injured in crash."
A Ford crashes: "Two cars collide on highway."
A BMW crashes: "Accident on Route 1."
A Tesla crashes: "TESLA crashes."
Not the driver. Not "a car." The brand, in the headline, every single time.
Millions of crashes happen on the roads every year, and almost none come with a brand name. But when it's a Tesla, legacy media suddenly cares which car it was.
Meanwhile, Tesla publishes its own safety data every quarter. With Autopilot engaged, Teslas go far more miles between crashes than the US average.
That's not journalism. That's a campaign.
The cars keep getting safer. The headlines just keep getting louder.
Just had a black SUV cut across my lane at 68 mph with almost zero gap while I was in Self-Driving. Dashcam caught aggressive, impatient human driving in flowing traffic. This is exactly why I’m ready for full autonomy.
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