I post frequently about Tesla because of the exceptional ownership experience. Here are some reasons I advocate for the company and its products. No-pressure test drive, no haggling, no dealership. Just buy via the website or app and complete paperwork on your smartphone. The

Muskometer Is there an online Musk popularity site where you can see how Elon Musk’s popularity fluctuates over time? I think a good name for it would be the Muskometer.

New Safety page on our website has an overview of how your Tesla protects everyone – occupants, other road users & wildlife alike https://t.co/pmekvoecrF

Left-Handed Girl is now playing on Netflix. Directed by Shih-Ching Tsou and written and produced by Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker. A mother and her two daughters move to Taipei to open a noodle stand, but family secrets and tradition test their fresh start. Starring Shih-Yuan

This year wasn’t easy. Not for science. Not for trust. Not for people trying to explain complex things in a world that increasingly rewards simple stories - especially the wrong ones. I spent a lot of time this year pushing back against fear. Fear of vaccines. Fear of

It is striking (though not surprising) how poorly legacy automakers have invested in their future. Technology is reshaping transportation at an accelerating pace, yet most incumbents are not playing to win. They are playing to delay. Their first failure was cultural and

CNET after testing @Tesla FSD V14: I Drove Over 100 Miles With Tesla's Latest Full Self-Driving and Never Touched the Wheel. "Four days, 4 hours and 100 miles through San Francisco. I'm now fully convinced Tesla's FSD system is the future of driving. It drove me through it all.

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Tesla’s pure vision self-driving model can react to obstacles in less than a tenth of a second.

Snowy Plover This morning on Sanibel we were watching a few Snowy Plovers working the edge of the beach when I noticed one with orange legs. A quick look in my Sibley guide and I realized thats a Piping Plover, one of the rarest birds in North America, with maybe 9,000 birds left

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It’s starting. Slowly everyone is opening their eyes to Tesla Full Self-Driving.

I have a guest essay in @nytimes today about autonomous vehicle safety. I wrote it because I’m tired of seeing children die. Done right, we can eliminate car crashes as a leading cause of death in the United States @Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million

Black Friday is a great reminder of how cheap and amazing TVs have gotten. Robots (and cutting red tape) can do that for everything.

FSD V14.2 | Model 3 vs Model Y This is part one of my two part series where I compare the Model 3, Y, and CT on FSD V14.2. I also talk about the interesting Tesla news from the week including: Our first look at FSD Unsupervised, Undocumented Changes in V14.2, and more.

FSD: A magic carpet ride I started writing this article series about two months before the release of FSD version 13 (December 1st, 2024). Now we’re about a year out, on the 8th release of version 14 (v14.2). Version 13 showed us what was possible, and version 14 is bringing it

BREAKING: Starting tonight, Tesla is launching a free 30-day trial of FSD (Supervised) V14 in North America for the estimated 1.5 million Tesla owners with HW4 who have not purchased FSD! Owners will receive an email and in-app notification about the trial. The total cumulative

A Washington man is shaken up, but still standing after a near head-on collision while driving to Utah after the Tesla Shareholder's meeting. The only reason he's still here for the holidays? He says his Cybertruck SAVED his life, making a split second decision long before a

I’ve put together a compilation of @Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) stopping for animals, and often saving their lives. It includes moose, alligator, deer, cats, dogs, raccoons, foxes, chicken, bunnies, and more. Millions of animals are killed by cars each year, but self-driving

Elon Musk yesterday said 14.3 is the final piece of the puzzle. That would seem to imply that 14.3 is the version to be used in Robotaxi and in unsupervised. He didn’t give a timeline for 14.3 to be realized, But 14.2 has come quickly on the heels of 14.1. Here’s a compilation