Credit where it's due: Tesla's driverless miles are growing fast, 30% in a single week, and Austin now has a real Tesla fleet carrying the public without anyone in the driver's seat. A year ago, that wasn't the case. But "never a real contest" is a strange thing to say when you're behind by 7x on weekly miles and 87x on cumulative miles, and your one win depends on comparing your newest week to your rival's data from last spring. What stands out to us is the type of autonomy Tesla is deploying. In 2020, Musk wrote that "Waymo is impressive, but a highly specialized solution," and that Tesla's approach was "a general solution." For years, Tesla fans dismissed Waymo as a geofenced system that only worked in mapped areas with lots of restrictions. Now look at Tesla's Robotaxi: geofenced, no highways, avoiding railroad crossings, taking 70 minutes for 10-minute trips, and limited by hours because the software isn't ready for anything with "the slightest possible risk." By Musk's own old definition, that's a highly specialized solution. Waymo is the one driving on freeways now.

Does anyone hate democracy more than Elon Musk?

fearmonger

Pure garbage. As expected. Elon Musk has no taste.

And now the Kremlin is literally giving Elon Musk the thumbs up 👍.

Elon won't be able to shake off the Russian-agent allegation. Now the Kremlin is openly giving him the thumbs-up.

Hey friends, I'm forwarding this as per Elon's request. I think he thinks you are dumb enough to believe it, or he wants you to know that he is a disingenuous guy willing to lie to get a corrupt politician he owns elected. Not sure which it is...

Hey @elonmusk, do you also believe that 'the Democratic People's Republic of Korea' is a democracy because it's in the name? Or do you pick and choose which fascist propaganda you believe in?

Trump saying that someone "wouldn't do anything wrong", it's a giant red flag.

You can smell the fear with every dollar he spends. For years, Musk has acted like the rule of law doesn't apply to him. He bought political influence at the cost of what little was left of US democracy. It kept him from repercussions, but it also sealed his fate. Now he has to spend nonstop to keep the people he buys elected. Elon's biggest fear is that honest people, such as James Talarico, get elected. Elon needs people he can buy, and he needs a culture where that's OK.

Elon Musk and Russian propaganda are aligned? I'm shocked!

I haven't forgotten about you Tesla HW3 owners. But Tesla might have...

I know Tesla fans won't read the article and claim that I don't understand the difference between the maps Tesla wants to create and Waymo's HD mapping that Elon has trashed. Read the article. I understand, and you are the one missing the point. At the end of the day, it comes down to understanding your environment, and Ashok's comments about Tesla creating its own maps were about FSD not being able to recognize things like speed signs. Tesla has always used navigation maps, and building its own instead of licensing them isn’t a contradiction on its own. But look at the problems Tesla is trying to fix. Speed limits, parking and routes are all about understanding the environment, and FSD still often fails at it, especially with speed limit signs. A speed limit sign is about as simple as road information gets. If an end-to-end vision system can’t reliably read and apply it, and the fix is a better map, then vision alone isn’t doing the job Tesla said it would. Tesla’s fleet is now a mapping fleet That brings Tesla closer to Waymo than it would like to admit. Waymo maps a city by driving its sensor-equipped vehicles through it before launching service, and keeps those maps updated as its fleet drives. Tesla is now describing the same idea: its cars collect what they see, and that data feeds a Tesla-built map that helps every car drive better. The main difference is that Waymo’s cars have lidar on top and can deliver HD maps. At one point, $TSLA fans are going to have to admit that Tesla's approach to self-driving shares many of the same problems as Waymo.

He is the president of the United States and he seems completely unbothered about trying to find out who ordered it. Sounds like the @WSJ reporting was accurate. Elon went to Trump and suggested it. Trump only half understood what was going on, and Elon went ahead anyway.

I could see Elon pleading the 5th like his buddies Epstein and Trump.

Elon Musk getting and listening to legal advice from, check notes, Retard Finder on Twitter. I bet he doesn’t follow through.

Epic meltdown!