U.S. Marine veteran (1988-1994, Gulf War vet), ‘23 Tesla MS Plaid owner and FSD supervisor (currently v12.3.6 on HW4), partner at Big 4 accounting firm
FSD today from the US Customs checkpoint at the Arizona/California border all the way to Huntington Beach, CA (225 miles). Zero takeovers, zero interventions.
Best part of today’s FSD drive other than zero human input? I rode for 3.5 hours in the drivers seat of my Tesla…
As a Marine, my platoon was once tasked with rescuing some U.S. college students who were trapped in a foreign country that experienced a coup attempt. They were there on a school trip. We were successful, and everyone was lifted out safe and sound. When we landed back on safer…
Three months in with my first Tesla, and I’ve never been this happy about a car in my life. Never looking back! And to say that it turns heads here in the deep, deep, deep ICE country of east Texas would be an understatement. Changing minds one Whataburger drive through at a time…
As a fellow American, I respect Ross’ right to flip flop on his statements of objective truths that he made just a few years ago.
As a Tesla owner and investor, I still respect his right. You need alternative voices to challenge your own.
But as a Marine, this made me puke. If…
@GerberKawasaki
3 years ago, you said Elon was “the amazing innovator of our time”, but now you refuse to honor his employment contract? For 6 years of work that made many of your clients wealthy? 🧐
Do you honor your commitments or do you back out once the work is done and you have your money?
Jim Farley speaking on Fox 2 Detroit regarding the future of EVs
“Tesla has become the most valuable auto company in the world, that’s ever been seen. And they’re profitable, and they’re growing. Our customers love their EVs.”
So the CEO of a major rival company has the guts to…
I’m a Marine veteran who now works in corporate America. That’s means that 1/2 of my Facebook friends who are fellow Marines hate my car choice, because it’s an EV. And the other 1/2 who are in corporate America hate my car choice because they hate Elon.
I just drove 22 hours…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 — Porter, TX to downtown Houston in the morning mist. FSD took me from my house and parked me in front of my office building 30 miles later with zero takeovers, zero interventions, zero honks, and zero anxiety.
This picture right here means sooo much to me! This right here all by itself is worth the 200 mile drive to Austin.
@WholeMarsBlog
is the reason I own a Tesla and am a member of our community now. And what an amazingly humble and cool dude. As soon as he saw me and knew who I…
@WholeMarsBlog
What they don't know is that it is Marines and veterans who are starting to buy Teslas, and we don't scare easily. And I could lose all of my value in my Tesla stock, I lived in a tent for six years as a Marine, I can do it again 🤣🤣🤣
Just watched this series tonight, great interview with Kimbal. And this specific part of the interview just floored me. I wasn’t in the Tesla community back in 2018, so had no idea about any of this. This really is an amazing community!!! So happy I am here now!
Just saw that Tesla has recently put out several job postings recruiting skilled electricians for their Super charger build outs. Depending on the skill and experience, up to $300k.
1. There were A LOT of postings. They must be getting ready to really blow the doors off…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 — Porter, TX to downtown Houston this morning. FSD once again took me from my house and parked me in front of my office building 30 miles later with zero takeovers, zero interventions, zero honks, and zero anxiety. Rinse and repeat….
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 -- Tesla FSD took me from my office building in downtown Houston, TX all the way back home to Porter, TX this evening (30 miles/1 hour), in the rain, with zero takeovers, zero interventions, zero honks, zero anxiety.
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.4 — Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport “robotaxi” gauntlet — zero takeovers, zero interventions, zero casualties taken.
LFG!!!
@WholeMarsBlog
Met a woman today in east Louisiana while airing up my tires to drive the 350 miles back home to Houston. She’s keeping her 15 year old Toyota Corolla together with bubble gum and baling wire, and unfortunately her radiator was giving her fits. I went over to help her out. While…
I am still taking it in right now. Such an amazing experience to get to spend nearly an hour with the CT Foundation. Definitely watch the full video, but I put together a quick 6 minute video collage of some of my favorite moments today. Mainly for some of my family and friends…
I uploaded this video to the other platform, but was informed today that X upload speeds have gotten better for longer videos recently, so will try to do upload same video here directly. CT walkthrough video in Porter, TX.
Tesla FSD 12.3–full day of driving from Porter, TX to downtown Houston in the morning and then back to Porter in the evening—60 total miles/80 minutes—zero disengagements, zero interventions, zero honks, zero anxiety, 100% confidence.
And since you Tesla nerds can’t seem to get…
Nearly an hour of driving the CT Foundation with
@Matthewj30O
. It was absolutely amazing!!! Here is a little lower quality version that I could upload directly to X. I am not going to do a summary of the video in this post, as I believe the video speaks louder than any words I…
I have never heard of him until today (hear me out). I bought my first Tesla in June 2023 after several months of watching
@WholeMarsBlog
. Watching this video today almost made me cry listening to someone I have literally never watched before. And I’m a Tesla owner.
What this…
And for anyone who doesn’t think word of mouth works. I’m a 54 year old white dude in Porter, Texas, who wondered across Omar’s
@WholeMarsBlog
videos 6 months ago. Six months later I own a MS Plaid, am on X, and make posts about him needing to use country music in his FSD videos.…
Tesla FSD V12.3: Downtown Houston to Porter, TX this evening (3/20/24 from 6:30pm-7:30pm), entire drive at raw 1x speed. Zero takeovers and zero interventions.
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 — from home in Porter, TX to Whataburger in Kingwood, then to Wal Mart, then back home. No disengagements, no interventions, no anxiety, and with Autopark literally no manual use of my Tesla at all as it parked itself all three times/stops!
We…
Just found out one of my old Marine buddies committed suicide today. I’ve lost more of my friends to suicide now after the war than we lost on the battlefield in Iraq.
I love my Tesla community, almost a family now. I love how we argue on Spaces with each other. But remember…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.4 -- Round trip Porter, TX to Sweet Escape in Atascocita, TX with no takeovers, no interventions, no honks, no anxiety.
I've only had it for a few hours, but from the little bit of driving I've done on it so far, it definitely hits right/left turns…
Tesla FSD 12.3 on HW4–another full day of driving on 3/28/24 from Porter, TX to downtown Houston in the morning and then back to Porter in the evening—60 total miles/1 hour 40 minutes total driving—zero disengagements, zero interventions, zero honks, zero anxiety, 100%…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.4 — Porter,TX to Sugarland, TX (45 miles/90 minutes) with quick stop at Tesla Supercharger station in The Heights (Yale Street) — zero human intervention
@WholeMarsBlog
FSD round trip drive from Kingwood, TX to my wife’s boba and Vietnamese food shop in Atascocita, TX. No takeovers/no interventions for the entire round trip. I’m on HW4 in a 2023 MS Plaid, with 11.4.7.3 for reference.
The wife called and let me know my mother-in-law decided to…
I have used a lot of the holiday time to catch-up on Tesla content. One of my absolute favorites is
@thejefflutz
. His insights on supply chain are a must listen and must watch. Honestly, if you’re a TSLA person and don’t follow Jeff you’re missing out!!!
This was where on…
Best day EVER with Tesla FSD (Supervised)!!! Performed two gauntlets/routes here in Houston successfully today with v12.3.4, with zero interventions on both routes for the VERY FIRST time (I’m honestly still sitting in my car at home in the driveway amazed at several of the…
FSD tonight from downtown Houston to Porter, TX (30 miles) in a rainstorm for the entire drive. Zero takeovers, zero interventions. And saved me from what likely would have been a crash towards the last minute of the video. Tesla FSD is definitely a “rider on the storm”……
Three months ago I finally bought my first EV, a Tesla MS Plaid with black paint, cream interior, 21 inch wheels, yoke steering wheel, and FSD. Just looked on the Tesla website and the exact same car is now $19k less. However, I did notice one difference. I have 3 years of free…
Tesla FSD 12.3–another full day of driving from Porter, TX to downtown Houston in the morning and then back to Porter in the evening—60 total miles/80 minutes—zero disengagements, zero interventions, zero honks, zero anxiety, 100% confidence, again….
First FSD V12 drive (12.3) this morning. I made several videos this morning at 1x speed with commentary that I’m also going to upload here to X. Zero takeovers and zero interventions in over an hour of driving. But the real story is how dramatically different of an experience V12…
I didn’t join the Tesla/X community until June of this year when I finally bought my first Tesla. I have been SO impressed with how quickly and completely y’all have invited me in. This is NOT normal. You are special!
It was Omar’s FSD videos that I came across that initially…
I've had V12.3 since Sunday morning. Five days of driving over 200 miles. Zero disengagements and only one intervention thus far (and only one honk - thus the one intervention). I know we still have a ways to go towards the ultimate goal of robotaxi, but man, my confidence in…
To the folks on X crapping on
@WholeMarsBlog
because of his excitement in getting V12, please stop. I learned about EVs from watching his videos, and now I do FSD videos to Morgan Wallen in Livingston, Texas, where the EV adoption rate is literally 0.0001%. And I didn’t know…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.4 -- Atascocita, TX to Humble, TX, then to new TSLA Supercharger in New Caney, TX (with quick stop at Whataburger beforehand), and then to Porter, TX with heavy rain -- zero human intervention
Continue to RIP Tim. Semper Fi young man. I know you're…
FSD 12.3 — Porter, TX to Chinatown in Houston (Bellaire Blvd) — 45 miles — zero takeovers and zero interventions.
I will also post the raw 1x version, but just be forewarned, my wife was talking to her Mom on the phone for half of the drive, so you might learn some Vietnamese,…
FSD from Porter, TX to the Hong Kong Asian Food Market in Houston (30 miles) to get supplies for my wife’s Vietnamese food and boba shop. Zero takeovers, zero interventions. I may be my wife’s primary errand runner, but when I’m in my Tesla, I’m a cowboy riding free on the…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 -- from home in Porter, TX to Sports Clips in Kingwood for a haircut, then to the brand new Tesla Supercharger station in New Caney (with quick detour to grab some dinner to eat while sitting at chargers), and then back home to Porter. Zero…
FSD 11.4.9 (on HW4) from Porter, TX to HEB in Kingwood, TX, to convenience store in Kingwood, and then back home. Zero takeovers and zero interventions.
FSD from downtown Houston to Porter, TX tonight (raw 1x). Zero takeovers, zero interventions. If you don’t believe me now about just how good FSD is, then go f**k yourself 😂😂😂
@WholeMarsBlog
@thejefflutz
The entirety of my first day with FSD V12 in one video. Words and film CANNOT provide justice, or a full appreciation for what the Tesla AI team is accomplishing here. You have to experience it for yourself.
In thinking of how I wanted to memorialize my full first day with V12,…
I know this won’t last, especially once REAL content creators with actual technical skills get their hands on a Cybertruck, but as of 8pm tonight, I think I’m the 5th most viewed person on the planet to drive a Cybertruck on film for close to an hour.
Like, what in the literal…
@mcuban
Didn't the head of another social media platform have to get up out of his chair and apologize to hundreds of parents last week? And X is the one you single out?
FSD from downtown Houston back home to Porter, TX tonight. Zero takeovers, zero interventions.
After 5 months of owning my first Tesla, I can honestly say that “you’ll never find” a better car, period!
@WholeMarsBlog
FSD round trip from Porter, TX to new Tesla Supercharger location near Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport (20 miles round trip). Zero takeovers, zero interventions.
Interesting thing to note for this drive is that the nags were SIGNIFICANTLY less than normal. I didn’t…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.4 — Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) “robotaxi” gauntlet — 5 runs at the gauntlet, 3 of the runs had absolutely zero interventions, 2 of the runs had a quick 1-second accelerator push to help get through the Terminal C Departures ramp. And in…
FSD drive (sped up version) from Kingwood, TX to downtown Houston (30 mile morning commute). Zero takeovers, zero interventions. I touched a button and said take me downtown, and didn’t have to touch anything again (other than to take care of the nags) until it stopped right in…
In the span of 72 hours, I’ve had three successive versions of V12 FSD software on my Tesla. Something tells me there are a lot of Red Bull cans and lights still burning at an office in Palo Alto right now.
Thank you
@Tesla_AI
team! We know how hard y’all are working and we…
FSD drive home tonight from downtown Houston to Porter, TX (25 miles) during rush hour. Zero takeovers, zero interventions. Yeah, I really really love my car!!!
Song choice goes out to my Dad (continue to RIP). He was sent to Vietnam in the 1960s, a boy who had never been…
You know how fortunate I am? I have two sons in the US military (one son who is a Navy nuclear submariner and one son who is a Marine) who are both deployed right now due to the level of strife in the world.
And at the exact same moment their old man is spending a lazy Saturday…
FSD 11.4.9 round trip today to Casa del Pueblo Mexican Meat Market
#7
in Conroe, TX (32 miles round trip).
Zero takeovers, zero interventions, and 18 pounds of the best beef brisket in Montgomery County, TX.
@WholeMarsBlog
Tonight’s FSD round trip drive is from my home to HEB. No takeovers and no interventions. My wife sent me to go get cat food 😂.
Over 1,000 years ago my ancestors used vessels powered by the wind to cause mischief throughout Northern Europe. 1,000 years later tonight, one…
FSD round trip to O’Reilly Auto Parts (6 miles round trip) with no takeovers or interventions. I know, I know………you’re thinking “you filmed an FSD video to go to O’Reilly’s 3 miles from your house???” Well yes, it was a very important trip! It was for my annual and total…
I am a Marine veteran who loves and has fought for this country. I have two sons in the US military who just got deployed to the area.
I also have old friends that live in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. There is no way you can be a successful Marine without having these…
The look on your face when you’re almost done editing the videos of your very first day with 12.3.2.1, and you look up and see
@WholeMarsBlog
and
@DirtyTesLa
downloading 12.3.3 🤣🤣🤣
One final thing I wanted to mention about my very first SpaceX rocket launch. The people of Brownsville TX, Boca Chica TX, and all the other little towns there on the border near SpaceX are absolutely some of the most amazing people you will ever meet. The way they showed up and…
Had an amazing encounter today with a brand new friend. An older gentlemen (around 67 or 68 I believe he said) is doing deliveries part time for some local businesses here in northeast Houston. He just wants to stay busy and earn some money about 15-20 hours a week. He made a…
I just finished driving the CT Foundation for nearly an hour here in east Texas! And I made sure to use my GoPro for better angles, and that I had the footage before I left this time 🤣. I am going to start working on getting it uploaded as soon as I get back home.…
Elon (180M followers) spends the day beating back bad MSM press and then makes surprise robotaxi announcement.
Me (2K followers): “They need me out on that wall right now…..” 🤣🤣🤣
Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH) gauntlet with zero takeovers and zero interventions.
@FreedomSoccerT1
@WholeMarsBlog
I fell for his personality, and his love of his car. I’m a Marine, I can tell when someone is real, or just a troll. Omar is the real deal. You on the other hand….
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 -- Here is another great example of how well v12 handles road construction and road crews. We are traveling around 50mph on a county highway, and we can't see the road crew directly in front of us due to the large semi directly in front of us…
I live in the red circle. I just bought my first Tesla this year after several months of watching
@WholeMarsBlog
videos. I am determined to turn that m***f**ing circle black all by myself by the time they update this next year!!!
@WholeMarsBlog
@thejefflutz
@TeslaBoomerMama
…
I bought my first Tesla three months ago, and joined the Tesla X community at the same time. My learnings?
1. Elon needs adversity and challenges. It feeds him.
2.
@WholeMarsBlog
drives a Tesla with FSD the same way Miles Davis played the trumpet.
3.
@ValueAnalyst1
is on…
Just uploaded nearly 2 hours of FSD V12.3 content directly here to X. My first day with V12 was amazing! This is the real deal!
A year ago I didn’t know a neural net from a fishing net. Now I not only know it, I’ve experienced it, and realize how it’s going to change…
One month in and absolutely loving this car! And to think I was a hater until just a few years ago.
You know the world has gone to hell when the son of an oil refinery worker from Beaumont, Texas spends his Sunday evening hooked into a wall connector 😂😂😂
One of my old Marine buddies put a post on FB tonight that he can’t go on any longer. And now his ex-wife can’t get ahold of him on his cell. Someone from our old unit who lives the closest to him is on his way over to his town right now to try and find him.
I hate to ask this…
FSD return trip home from the Hong Kong Asian Food Market in Houston back to Porter, TX (30 miles), with quick stop on the way at CVS. Zero takeovers, zero interventions, and three more songs from the one and only George Straight!
@WholeMarsBlog
FSD round trip today from Porter, TX to the Montrose neighborhood in Houston (70 miles round trip) to meet an old friend for a late lunch. Little bit of constant drizzle, but nothing too bad.
Zero takeovers, zero interventions.
Even though my Tesla and FSD show that the…
FSD from Porter, TX to downtown Houston (30 miles). Zero takeovers, zero interventions.
The AI bot in X already knew how I was going to write the 2nd sentence above, I just pressed enter. So zero takeovers and zero interventions of X’s AI writing bot as well 😂😂😂…
FSD from downtown Houston to Porter, TX Walmart Supercenter (33 miles). Zero takeovers, zero interventions. You could say my Tesla is just simply “too much heaven”…
@WholeMarsBlog
I contemplated whether or not to do anymore FSD videos until we get the broader release of V12. I’ve decided I’m going to continue filming my FSD drives and uploading for a couple of reasons:
1. Teslas driven with FSD are 6x safer than Teslas without FSD. Teslas with FSD are…
The front page of the Austin Chronicle today. Let me finish the sentence for them….”more CO2 out of the atmosphere than any person alive or who has lived.”
Oh wait, never mind, I forgot to recite the talking points like a robot parrot: “Elon bad!” 😂. This is how they treat…
FSD (Raw 1x) from Porter, TX to downtown Houston this morning. Zero takeovers, zero interventions, one middle aged old man talking to himself in his car.
@WholeMarsBlog
FSD this morning from Kingwood, TX to my original hometown of Beaumont, TX (90 miles). Zero takeovers, zero interventions, lots of woods 😂
When I see the small towns and the forests/woods along my drive to my hometown, I’m reminded why “Annie” found herself a “country boy” and…
FSD round trip today through rural east Texas, from Porter, TX to Cut and Shoot, TX (60 miles round trip) to meet an old friend for lunch before the holidays. Zero takeovers and zero interventions getting to Cut and Shoot. Zero takeovers and one intervention heading back to…
I went on my 2nd FSD drive tonight after getting it over the air today. Took it through 40 miles of rural east Texas, where I’m about 99.9% sure no other Tesla has been driven let alone one with FSD. Flawless! Zero interventions!
Elon - You’re welcome! You now have real world…
So this happened on my way to do an FSD video today. There’s a Cybertruck in my neighborhood!!! Literally less than a mile from my house. In Porter, TX! Talk about throwing me off for a minute. I’m back home from my FSD trip and thinking of going over and knocking on the door and…
My most honest and brutally self aware post for the day:
I had absolutely no clue about or actual understanding of what “steer by wire” was or meant before yesterday. I also think it may be the 2nd most wonderful thing I have ever experienced for the first time 🤣🤣🤣…
FSD round trip from Porter, TX to the Galleria area of Houston (60 miles round trip) today. Zero takeovers, zero interventions, and a threefer of music from one of the greatest rock bands ever. Formed in London in 1962, and they’re still selling out stadiums worldwide today.…
Tesla FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 -- This was REALLY impressive to me! FSD v12 somehow knew through its vision and its understanding/awareness of the physical world, that it needed to get further over to the right for the massive semi coming through the very small/tight county road…
FSD from downtown Houston to Porter, TX (25 miles) during evening rush hour. Zero takeovers, zero interventions, and 52 minutes of the some of the most incoherent babbling from the person in the driver’s seat you will ever hear. If I were an Uber driver, I would have zero stars…
There's highly likely a VERY good reason the vast majority of us on FSD haven't received V12 yet. As a very famous NFL coach once said "trust the system, and do your job". Our job is to keep pushing the button/pulling the stalk on V11 and providing video data to Tesla. Let the…