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A sobering message from a history teacher: I’ve spent years teaching American and international government — from strong democracies like the UK to authoritarian regimes like russia and China. But lately, the most alarming lesson comes from home. 1/n

Here's our statement on the results of the 2024 presidential election:

Rick Steves: There was a handful of people who opposed Hitler, refused to do the proper salute, to kiss his ring; these are the Kinzingers, the Liz Cheneys, and the Mitt Romneys…of the German democracy in 1932…

I am back in Madison to remind Americans to make their voices heard on Election Day. Special Musical Guests @GracieAbrams, @MumfordandSons, @RemiWolf, and more. Watch now. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Robstown, TX (16 stalls) is now confirmed open for folks traveling to see Starship. Please share with others too, as the vehicle touchscreen may not update immediately. tesla.com/findus?v=2&sea… Additionally, Mathis, TX (8 stalls) opening this month. tesla.com/findus?v=2&sea…

I just published "AI’s Take on the Future: Answering Humanity’s Biggest Questions" on Medium. link.medium.com/njGIKn6K0Mb

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Many spectators in pink jeep tours were at Broken Arrow Trail enjoying the beautiful scenery, until this thing arrived. It was the first time for many of them to see the Cybertruck, all with their eyes locked in, phones out, mouths in awe, absolutely shocked to see an all electric truck complete the Devil’s Staircase. I honestly felt like a rare Pokémon that no one wanted to miss. It’s as if something like this was never supposed to be, never supposed to happen, never thought possible. In real-time, all of their doubts about Tesla/an electric future immediately vanished away. Many thought I was someone “special”, no one knew who I was, but I was simply just a patient customer enjoying a product I truly believed in. When I came out, everyone clapped for some reason, and I told them to never doubt Tesla and an all sustainable future that is being built, bc this team is really going to make it happen. Go Tesla.

Want to Know what is happening with Elon Musk's companies today? Here you go! 27th of March, 2024 ■ TESLA $TSLA ($179.83, +1.22%): Dave Krysiak, Site Lead and Senior Manufacturing and Operations Manager at Tesla, got to borrow his friends Cybertruck and decided to take this epic pic. - Sam Korus of ARK Invest (u/skorusARK) asked if manufacturing a robot compared to a car would be 10x faster and only constrained by software. Elon replied, "Complexity per unit mass is much higher with humanoid robots, but still I think it ends up costing less than half of a car." With the average price of a Tesla being $45,000, Then we should expect Optimus to be around $22,000. - It was announced via email that the Tesla exhibit at the Petersen Museum will end on the 31st of March. You get a free Cybertruck poster at their Admissions Desk until the Exhibition closes. You can buy your tickets online or in-person. The museum is located at 6060 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Go check it out while you can. - Tesla has signed a 10 year lease for a 78,000 square feet showroom and service center at 77 Reservoir Ave. in Providence, Rhode Island. Would love to see some progress pics if anyone is in the area. - Tesla will be in the Poland’s Poznań Auto Show from April 4th to 7th. - Tesla and the US Government objected the Mexico Commission for Regulatory Improvement (Conamer) rules that the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) intends to have charger that operate at least two types of adapters. Per Tesla, "Requiring that a station offer different types of chargers adds technical complexity, creates additional barriers to entry, increases the cost of the stations and is an incentive for new participants interested in offering vehicles in the country not to carry out the development and investment necessary in its production for regional integration, mainly affecting the consumer experience." H/T Adrean, (u/AdreanCG). FLYOVERS: Giga Texas: Joe Tegtmeyer (u/JoeTegtmeyer), 27th of March, '24. Joe is estimating that Cybertruck production is nearing 900 to 1,000 weekly now! Lots of areas around the factory are getting needed groundwork and concrete pours. The southend expansion is getting closer the southeastern wall of the main building. Remember to subscribe and support Joe it you haven't already. Giga Texas: Brad Sloan, 26th of March, '24. About half of the Cybertrucks in shipping have departed. The framing of the south extension get closer and closer to completion. Subscribe to support the updates! ■ SPACEX: - Starship 29 performed a single engine deorbit burn static fire test today. This should end the testing campaign for S29 before IFT-4. Pic via u/LabPadre live feed. - Hwy 4 road closure will be in effect tomorrow the 28th from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CT due to SpaceX testing activities. - Construction has started on the $100 million Starbase Offices expansion just east of the Starfactory. Groundwork has been ongoing, but now we see actual i-beam framework. - NASA and SpaceX are now targeting June 25th for the launch of NOAA's GOES-U satellite. The latest in the GOES-R Series of weather spacecraft will provide coverage for forecasts in the Western hemisphere. - NASA JPL posted an update on the Europa Clipper spacecraft today. Elon reposted saying, "This is an especially important mission. Some chance it may find signs of life in Europa, a moon of Jupiter!" The Clipper is set to launch aboard a Falcon Heavy on the 10th of October this year. Countdown to 144 (29- Falcon 9, 0 - Falcon Heavy, and 1 - Starship): - Launch 31! Wednesday, the 27th of March, at 7:30 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 7-18 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. - Launch 32! Friday, the 29th of March, at 5:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Starlink 6-45 will launch from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. - Launch 33! Saturday, the 30th of March at, 6:00 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 Eutelsat 36D will launch from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Eutelsat 36D is a multi-mission geostationary telecommunications satellite for Eutelsat, replacing and enhance capacity at 36° East, a key orbital slot for Eutelsat for TV broadcasting (DTH) and government services over Africa, Russia, and Europe. It has 70 Ku-band transponders, over five downlink beams, a steerable antenna, and expected to have an operational lifetime of more than 15 years. The booster will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. ■ THE BORING COMPANY: - Beat the snail! The 2024 Not-a-Boring Competition started today. The 130 students (8 teams and 5 countries) are competing on max tunneling speed and innovation. Teams include Warwick Boring, Virginia Tech's Diggeridoos, Colorado University Hyperloop, and many more. - Yesterday, Bastrop, Texas, city leaders approved to move forward with a wastewater deal between SpaceX and The Boring Company. The city will treat wastewater from both the new Starlink and TBC facilities at the city's new $32 million wastewater treatment plant that is expected to open in April. The estimated amount of wastewater to be produced is around 100k gallon per day. - Joe's flyover at Giga Texas today reveals that Prufrock-3's cutterhead has moved. Evident by the fresh dirt on the cutter. This was most likely during testing. Any day now the bore should start. ■ NEURALINK: N/A... Subscribe to support the updates! ■ STARLINK: - Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to the USA and Canada, Baktybek Amanbaev, met with SpaceX Director for Global Licensing and Market Activation of Starlink, Rebecca Hunter, to discuss the issue of providing Kyrgyzstanis with Starlink. Negotiations about this with the American company began two years ago. Hunter provided information about the progress and noted the problems that arose during the implementation of the project. No details were given. ■ X: - X is in discussions with former CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge (u/CBS_Herridge). The award-winning journalist met with Linda Yaccarino at The Jefferson Hotel in Washington, DC earlier this month. though just preliminary, the potential deal could see Herridge helm an investigative unit that she could help put together. - New Ads Feature called Spotlight Ads allows you to directly click into a custom Live Event page and includes top commentary. - DM messages will soon have an edit function. - The new Android 10.34 update focuses heavily on Spaces improvements including a revamp that introduces Android Media style notifications, enabling users to rewind or forward through recorded spaces. ■ xAI: - Grok will be enabled for all premium subscribers and not just premium+. - Per Elon, "Grok has normal mode and fun mode. Tonight, we decided to add an unhinged fun mode. It is next-level." ■ ELON NEWS: N/A... __________ Please Repost and Spread the Real News! More Stories and Pics in the Thread! __________ If you enjoy the updates, please support my efforts by subscribing. 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While there are many articles that do not accurately convey the nature of our safety systems, the recent Washington Post article is particularly egregious in its misstatements and lack of relevant context.  We at Tesla believe that we have a moral obligation to continue improving our already best-in-class safety systems (tesla.com/blog/model-y-e…). At the same time, we also believe it is morally indefensible not to make these systems available to a wider set of consumers, given the incontrovertible data that shows it is saving lives and preventing injury.  Regulators around the globe have a duty to protect consumers, and the Tesla team looks forward to continuing our work with them towards our common goal of eliminating as many deaths and injuries as possible on our roadways.   Below are some important facts, context and background. Background 1. Safety metrics are emphatically stronger when Autopilot is engaged than when not engaged. a. In the 4th quarter of 2022, we recorded one crash for every 4.85 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, we recorded one crash for every 1.40 million miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2021) shows that in the United States there was an automobile crash approximately every 652,000 miles. (tesla.com/VehicleSafetyR…) b. The data is clear: The more automation technology offered to support the driver, the safer the driver and other road users. Anecdotes from the WaPo article come from plaintiff attorneys—cases involving significant driver misuse—and are not a substitute for rigorous analysis and billions of miles of data. c. Recent Data continues this trend and is even more compelling.  Autopilot is ~10X safer than US average and ~5X safer than a Tesla with no AP tech enabled. More detailed information will be publicly available in the near future. 2. Autopilot features, including Traffic-Aware Cruise Control and Autosteer, are SAE Level 2 driver-assist systems, meaning – a. Whether the driver chooses to engage Autosteer or not, the driver is in control of the vehicle at all times. The driver is notified of this responsibility, consents, agrees to monitor the driving assistance, and can disengage anytime. b. Despite the driver being responsible for control for the vehicle, Tesla has a number of additional safety measures designed to monitor that drivers engage in active driver supervision, including torque-based and camera-based monitoring. We have continued to make progress in improving these monitoring systems to reduce misuse. c. Based on the above, among other factors, the data strongly indicates our customers are far safer by having the choice to decide when it is appropriate to engage Autopilot features. When used properly, it provides safety benefits on all road classes. The Washington Post leverages instances of driver misuse of the Autopilot driver assist feature to suggest the system is the problem. The article got it wrong, misreporting what's actually alleged in the pending lawsuit and omitting several important facts: 1. Contrary to the Post article, the Complaint doesn't reference complacency or Operational Design Domain. 2. Instead, the Complaint acknowledges the harms of driver inattention, misuse, and negligence. 3. Mr. Angulo and the parents of Ms. Benavides who tragically died in the crash, first sued the Tesla driver—and settled with him—before ever pursuing a claim against Tesla. 4. The Benavides lawsuit alleges the Tesla driver “carelessly and/or recklessly” “drove through the intersection…ignoring the controlling stop sign and traffic signal.” 5. The Tesla driver didn’t blame Tesla, didn’t sue Tesla, didn’t try to get Tesla to pay on his behalf.  He took responsibility. 6. The Post had the driver's statements to police and reports that he said he was “driving on cruise.” They omit that he also admitted to police “I expect to be the driver and be responsible for this.” 7. The driver later testified in the litigation he knew Autopilot didn’t make the car self-driving and he was the driver, contrary to the Post and Angulo claims that he was mislead, over-reliant or complacent. He readily and repeatedly admitted: a. “I was highly aware that was still my responsibility to operate the vehicle safely.” b. He agreed it was his “responsibility as the driver of the vehicle, even with Autopilot activated, to drive safely and be in control of the vehicle at all times.” c. “I would say specifically I was aware that the car was my responsibility.  I didn’t read all these statements and passages, but I’m aware the car was my responsibility.” 8. The Post also failed to disclose that Autopilot restricted the vehicle's speed to 45 mph (the speed limit) based on the road type, but the driver was pressing the accelerator to maintain 60 mph when he ran the stop sign and caused the crash. The car displayed an alert to the driver that, because he was overriding Autopilot with the accelerator, "Cruise control will not brake." More information and background can be found here → tesla.com/support/autopi…

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