Todd Burkey

Retired Engineer. Not missing those 100 hour work weeks. Yet.

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@JoeTegtmeyer Nice. I have been adding useful info I run across to my website here: https://t.co/szDnj14E43 …has anyone released more detailed specs other than the EPA set of info? Just curious. BTW, I use my website just to save typing responses 🙂.

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@LamarMK Being retired I looked at my purchase of a Tesla Model 3 in late 2019 and wife’s purchase of a 2026 Y last year as likely the last cars we will ever have to buy so picked the cars with best sound and performance. Model 3 stealth and Model y premium. Safer and better handling.

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@XFreeze More telling...in the US, math shows that the odds of dying in a car accident sometime in your life is one in 95. Not great odds. Based on 9 billion FSD miles with 1/3 of them city driving and only 2 deaths due to FSD the odds change to better than 1 in 4096 if everyone had FSD.

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@LamarMK @Tesla We have one of each…2020 AWD Model 3 Stealth and 2026 AWD Model Y. I prefer the handling of the 3 for daily driving and wife prefers the ease of entry and better FSD on the Y. We have FSD on both but rarely use the older HW3 version on the 3…hoping that gets resolved soon.

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@M46726805 @DennisCW_ @CarMax Our 2026 Tesla Model Y also came with a 7 year 70k mile warranty on a wide range of crucial, high-value propulsion, charging, and cooling components. Plus of course the 8 year 120k mile battery and motor warranties. Odd thing was I didn’t know about the 7 yr when buying the car.

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@crsanchezx @AlfonsoFdez10 Sort of. Average distance between supercharger stations in the US is a bit higher than European countries but Tesla keeps expanding the network so even 6 years ago I was able to drive anywhere in the US. And never had to wait in line in 130+ supercharger visits.

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@MagazineTesla I did something similar between an EV and an efficient gas car several years ago. Also kept in mind that the EV will last longer. Here is a link: https://t.co/yB0iyyOABb

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@GW49221300 @akafaceUS @grok This “accident” was a hot exhaust catching dry grass on fire. 3,991 cars bit the dust spreading burning gasoline from vehicle to vehicle.

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@AlfonsoFdez10 @crsanchezx We have a 2020 Model 3 Stealth Perf. In 6 years and 75k miles we drove it over thirty 720 mile day trips between homes and each year 1 or 2 4,000 mile roadtrips. Wife got a 2026 Model Y that is taking over for trips (HW4 FSD). Typical charging stops are 8-15 mins. Excellent cars.

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@Tesla “Robot planning session”. Image re-imagined by Grok from a 1987 Byte Magazine advertisement in about 3 seconds.

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@Ivan_S3XY @Skoskii @TexasTSLA @Waymo @robotaxi Waymo lost $5 billion last year iirc on revenue of $300 million. Their cars cost is down to $175k vs an estimated Tesla Cybercab cost of around $25k (Model y cost is under $35k). Tesla also builds more robotaxi capable vehicles in a day than there are Waymos. Tesla will be fine.

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@farzyness This week a pair of cybercab have been driving around in Cape Coral, FL and Ft Myers FL as well. We have 400 miles of canals in Cape Coral so many streets end up in cul de sacs and I’ve been reporting that FSD doesn’t handle Y shaped cul de sacs for a year now. Hope they fix it.

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@JMGlachant Actually the projection doesn’t account for autonomous driving reducing car ownership drastically. Ditto for the fact that all autonomous robotaxis will be EVs. And of course once autonomous EVs prove to be much safer to ride in, insurance costs might kill ICE ownership faster.

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@AssaadRazzouk I asked grok to combine the plots in that image into ine global one. I’m lazy :)

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@billp97309 @DevinOlsenn 1 in 95 is the odds a person will die in their lifetime due to a car accident. And that includes car accidents causing pedestrian deaths as well as passenger deaths. Based on only 2 fatalities so far caused by FSD in around 8 billion FSD miles that is 1 in 4096 odds. Big diff.

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@koalafiedtesla With Tesla it is more about when you bought your car (and what car you bought). I bought my red Model 3 Stealth Performance for under $50k in late 2019 so in 2021 with 25k miles on it I could have sold it for more than I paid for it. Our 2026 Y should retain decent value also.

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@mayemusk 6 year old Multi 3 stealth and baby ultra Y juniper

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@erin0nchain @tesla_korea As a chip designer back in the late 70s and 80s I found my EE degree with an emphasis on physics and Digital IC design (interned at Honeywell SSED while in college) and a strong software background back then helped a lot. Helped to be somewhat of a perfectionist also :).

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@OutofSpecDetail Yes

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@Tesla_AI I was glad to see FSD do this on Wednesday on our 720 mile day trip between homes. Was darker than it looks in the video so was happy the car noticed all the semi tire pieces. It also dodged a palm frond leaving sw florida and swerved around accident damaged pavement in GA.