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Alexander Garcia retweeted
The Ferrari CEO praised @Tesla's new Roadster unveil today:
"It certainly shows that in the automotive world there's still a lot to be done. We have to keep dreaming. As a European, thank you for showing us how that, even in an old world, you can still innovate and dare."
He gave the Roadster launch 10 out of 10 for technology and 10 out of 10 for presentation.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
Just finished three short trips with Tesla Self-Driving 14.3.13. Not much time with the new build, but here are my initial impressions.
1. It reversed out of my driveway much more quickly than previous versions.
2. You can definitely feel the personality evolving more with each minor point release in the 14.3 series. This one felt like another major evolutionary step, but still a little bit awkward.
3. In Mad Max mode, the car was driving so aggressively that it was sometimes uncomfortable going over dips or bumps in the road. Aggressive is great, but you want to be cautious where appropriate so the user can actually leave it in that aggressive mode
4. It parked perfectly 3/3 times for each destination
5. It did a better job at parking within the lines than the previous build.
6. There was a car that was stopped in one lane when the light turned green, even intruding on the lane to its right a bit. The car just went around it without skipping a beat, even though it was a tight space, and did it very quickly like a human.
7. Very smooth slowdowns approaching a red light or entering a turn lane.
8. It seems to have this new personality trait where it will accelerate and decelerate on a different curve... I can't quite explain it yet
Will test more in daytime traffic and let you know how it performs.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
it's truly wild to think just how much of socialist rhetoric comes down to being economically illiterate and stupid
like they literally do not know how shares work
when they rant about billionaires they think they literally have a scrooge mcduck pile of gold in the basement
when they talk about raising taxes they don't know the US has one of the most progressive systems of all time and that the top 1% already pays nearly ** HALF** of all taxes
they have never run a lemonade stand
they have never built anything
their mindset is pure envy, pure greed
they will simultaneously hate Elon (despite him producing probably 100k jobs in his lifetime, and making many people into millionaires or billionaires) and idolize Ilhan Omar (despite her defrauding taxpayers)
they can't conceptualize that 1 mile of the california rail costs more to develop than all of spacex's total spend, of all time
they are fixed-pie thinkers who cannot conceptualize that if they want nice things they should build things
takers, thieves, malcontents, simpletons. not makers.
everything else in the dysfunctional, self-destructive idiocy they produce is just downstream of them being stupid and greedy
Alexander Garcia retweeted
This is the larger 400-liter carbon overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV) that will go in the passenger seat in the rocket trim of @Tesla's Roadster, which is why this version is a one-seater. Combined with a 200L tank in the rear, available only on the Thrust and Rocket trims, the Rocket trim will have a total capacity of 600L.
Rocket trim comes with 10 total thrusters around the vehicle: Four rear-facing, four downward-facing, and two side-facing.
• Performance trim: Four rear fans, suction system and front and rear deployable skirts.
• Thrust trim: Four rear fans, suction system, front and rear deployable skirts & four rear-facing acceleration thrusters (with 200L COPV tank).
• Rocket trim: Four rear fans, suction system, front and rear deployable skirts, four rear-facing acceleration thrusters (with 200L COPV tank), four-downward facing & two side facing thrusters (with 400L COPV tank).
Alexander Garcia retweeted
Tesla via their new Annual Report that was released today:
“Readied V3 Optimus for mass production” 👀
Alexander Garcia retweeted
I am rooting against Elon Musk because I hate America's children and don't want them to have a good life
Alexander Garcia retweeted
난 로드스터의 제로백 영상 보고 "아니, 0-60mph(마일) 측정하는데 트랙이 왜 이렇게 짧아?'라고 생각했음
근데 이유가 있었음
로드스터는 0.81초 만에 60mph(96.56km/h)에 도달했는데 차가 너무 빨라서 트랙 10.9m 면 충분했던 것이었음! 😱😱
*0-60mph 측정 시 필요 트랙 거리 1초: 13.4m / 2초: 26.8m / 3초: 40.2m / 4초: 53.6m / 5초: 67.1m
(이스터 에그)
그리고 뒷바퀴가 돌아가면 즉시 통과 벽 우측 상단에 바나나가 떨어지게 세팅해 놓았는데,
바나나가 자유낙하(35km/h)로 떨어지면 정확히 1초 뒤 바닥에 닿게 높이(4.9m)에 위치시켜 놓음
그런데 로드스터는 바나나가 땅에 닿기도 전에 60마일의 속도로 벽을 통과함 (0.81초)
알고 보니까 더 재밌네!!
Alexander Garcia retweeted
Luddism 101.
Take one of the most transformative innovations in human history, ignore the enormous benefits it has delivered, selectively identify its negative consequences, and declare that the people who opposed it were right about everything.
By that standard, we should still be debating whether the printing press was a mistake.
There's something remarkably arrogant about enjoying the fruits of human ingenuity while treating the ingenuity itself as a regrettable development.
Civilization didn't advance because people surrendered to their fears of progress. It advanced because others refused to.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
I wonder, Matt, do you use:
A record player or Spotify?
Encyclopedias or Google?
Paper maps or Google Maps?
A phone book or online directories?
A newspaper or online news?
A dictionary or online definitions?
A fax machine or email?
Postage stamps or instant messaging?
A landline or internet calling?
A VHS collection or Netflix?
A television guide or online schedules?
A radio broadcast or podcasts?
A physical calendar or Google Calendar?
A filing cabinet or cloud storage?
A bank teller or online banking?
A checkbook or electronic payments?
A stockbroker or online investing?
Newspaper classifieds or online marketplaces?
A printed catalog or Amazon?
An airline timetable or live flight tracking?
A hotel brochure or online reviews?
A weather almanac or live forecasts?
An instruction manual or YouTube tutorials?
A medical encyclopedia or online medical resources?
A newspaper job listing or LinkedIn?
A ticket booth or online ticketing?
A newspaper archive or searchable digital archives?
A translation dictionary or instant translation?
A recipe book or millions of searchable recipes?
A television network's permission or direct access to millions of viewers?
And Matt, would you rather distribute your opinions through pamphlets on street corners or broadcast them instantly to millions through the very technology you're condemning?
The internet has problems. So does every transformative technology.
But declaring its critics right about literally everything while enjoying its extraordinary benefits is a spectacular exercise in taking progress for granted.
You aren't demonstrating that the internet was a mistake.
You're demonstrating how comfortable people can become with miracles they no longer recognize.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
IN THE NEWS TWO YEARS AGO
(If you get your news from Zack Nelson)
“[Cybercab] is *less* likely to exist than Roadster”
Alexander Garcia retweeted
Your Tesla can now activate self-driving mode when you’re driving manually if it detects you’re about to crash, not paying attention, have fallen asleep, are having a medical emergency, etc.
I would not want someone I love driving any other brand.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
Personal excellence is the skeleton key for having an outsized positive impact on people's lives. This is the legacy of capitalism...not only does it drive innovation & inspire development, but it provides the opportunity to cut out corrupt government and give big, directly.
Alexander Garcia retweeted
It’s about political control. When he was voting for their team, he was the second coming of Jesus. A liberal businessman who was doing things the right way.
Then suddenly after Democrats started targeting him for being too successful, he’s completely useless and it’s just a lucky coincidence that all his companies are wildly successful. Certainly it doesn’t have anything to do with him, it was probably thanks to Martin Eberhard or something.
The reason their opinion flipped 180 is that they want to control you. They want their guys in charge. And if you ever started to doubt their plans for the country, or expressed that you wanted something different, they would do the exact same thing to you.
If they were willing to set America’s clean energy transition back for political power, they’ll destroy you without even blinking.
