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Max Cheung retweeted
Tesla’s Board of Directors has sent a new letter to shareholders:
“Dear Tesla Shareholders,
We have always set ambitious goals at Tesla. Achieving them requires the right team and the right leadership at both the management and Board levels. At our Annual Meeting on December 3, 2026, our three Class I Directors - Elon Musk, Robyn Denholm and JB Straubel - are up for re election.
We have all the building blocks necessary to propel us into our next phase of transformational growth, but we must keep the leadership that has proven key to Tesla's success. We are asking you to vote FOR ALL proposals on this year's ballot - most importantly, the re-election of our three Class I Directors.
Thank you for your continued support of Tesla.
Sincerely,
The Tesla Board of Directors”
More info:
Max Cheung retweeted
Tesla’s Optimus training regime leak.
Workers in its Palo Alto R&D facility have been holding “robot university” for many months already. Press got it wrong when they said it just started up.
Workers are wearing 24 lb suits with up to 40 cameras and grids of 3D sensors. To capture very detailed video and 3D fields of whatever the worker does.
There are multiple configurations.
They are given different tasks to do. They don’t know where the tasks come from.
Multiple squads are working on three shifts 24 hours a day. Similar efforts were seen at the Texas factory.
The data collection effort is immense.
A Tesla car only has nine cameras.
This leads to a data flywheel that is orders of magnitude more data than the car captured.
Separate teams are capturing home data, like making a sandwich, while other teams capture jobs on factory floor, like installing HVAC systems in cars.
Elon isn’t playing around.
I can’t tell you how I learned this.
Max Cheung retweeted
Waymo appears to have completely shut down operations in Austin due to the weather while Tesla Robotaxi initially paused but is now continuing to operate
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Tesla has just introduced a new Supercharging safety feature called “Emergency Drive Away,” which allows you to immediately drive away from a Supercharger for safety reasons while your vehicle is still plugged in.
Now rolling out via an OTA software update (2026.38.3). Pre-2021 Model S and Model X are not supported. No adapters needed. This feature applies to U.S. Superchargers only for now.
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As always, X finds out before YouTube!
My new daily driver is… @cybertruck!
It was the only vehicle that met all 3 of my criteria:
1 - Point to Point driver assistance
2 - Dog Mode + room for the pups (height was important, they’re tall!)
3 - Towing capability >7,500lbs for horses, cars, and more
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BREAKING a @tesla has crashed into the fremont factory showroom due to driver error
no one was injured
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Hope you enjoyed the thread, I wanted to recognize the hard work of the team working behind the scenes on the unsung details.
Production is hard.
Production requires constantly evolving evolving to keep up with supply chain and manufacturing.
This list is not all of the changes, nor the order they happened, and there will still be more along the way. I love that the team takes it to the next level by constantly evolving the product as we solve these day to day production challenges.
The best Tesla is the one you buy today because you get to enjoy it, no need to wait for a model year
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Cybertruck doors are notoriously tough - and they make a really nice "woody" thud when closed. But when the window was open we instead got a "tinny" rattle.
The glass was rattling in it's sliding channel. This was solved for the fleet over the air by rolling the window up slightly when the door opens so the seals stabilized the glass. As a bonus it makes a little Cybertruck profile.
You can still force the window to stay down, just press the window switch a second time once the door is open
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I’d love to chat and bounce my thoughts off anyone interested and can make it!
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Agreed! Safety shouldn’t be behind a paywall..
Consider the lawsuit if nothing else
Wow, this is huge. Tesla is introducing a new active safety feature called Automatic Collision Evasion.
We know Full Self-Driving is great at avoiding accidents, but that's only when it's on. This new feature, when enabled, will allow the vehicle to enable FSD itself when necessary to avoid a collision.
Now, instead of just applying Automatic Emergency Braking to stop the vehicle, the vehicle will be able to steer to avoid a crash as well. Great to see.
Interestingly, the accelerator pedal, brake pedal, and steering will be muted while the evasive maneuver is in progress.
Not a Tesla App reports that the feature will only be available to users who paid for FSD. Not sure if that's true, but if it is I would encourage Tesla to make it available to all Tesla owners if possible. Safety at Tesla always comes standard, not behind a paywall.