Dominic Salupo

I am a Aerospace Systems Engineering Student at the University of Akron. I enjoy hiking, photography, and all things aerospace. $TSLA Investor

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@TeslaCharging Any updates on the Lake Louise supercharger site?

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

I made a video compilation of @Tesla FSD (Supervised) avoiding accidents, pedestrians and animals. This technology is already saving countless lives.

Thanks for submitting your clips!

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

Great information! Have you experienced the car shaking it's steering wheel?
My 2022 model 3 had rapid wheel movement causing a disengagement. It's the second time it's happened and there isn't any cars on the left side causing it to want to move out of the way. It's weird and only on the same section of road. Later today I'll be trying 14.1 out.

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

Eclipse as seen by one of our test vehicles in Spain

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@wholemars @BLKMDL3 45 minute drive on 14 lite with a max temp of 59C

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@wholemars @BLKMDL3 My 2022 Model 3 hasn't ran into problems. I have driven around 1,000 miles on 14 lite in Northeast Ohio. Ambient temperatures have been within the 80's.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@JuniperDriver Yep, very easy. It took me about 5 minutes to install.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

If you're an investor who has lost faith in $TSLA, I can't blame you. This is a company that used to see record sales every year, 50%, 80%, 100% year over year growth. That's a distant memory for investors now, with the last year of record deliveries being 2023.

You gritted your teeth and bit your tongue as you listened to your fellow investors cope. "Well, vehicle deliveries don't actually matter. Autonomy does" they said as the sales decline accelerated. "Amazing abundance!" they tweeted as Tesla posted its worst year of sales growth in the history of the company.

So I can't blame you, I really can't, for having doubts about whether this company is headed for explosive growth. Some people who still want to believe may be rude to you as you exit, or call you a moron. I called people who can't see the potential morons yesterday. But I'm sorry about that, and would like to apologize and wish my former Tesla bulls off with love. You're not insane for feeling something is off.

I'm probably the insane one for still buying. Maybe I'm just retarded, but I want to own more of this company. It could be blind hope, but based on everything I'm seeing it really looks like they're turning a corner and returning to growth. I mentioned that we haven't seen year over year sales growth since 2023. Last year, in 2025, Tesla delivered 153,097 units less than in 2024. For 2026, they've already delivered 117,346 more cars than they did in the first half of 2025. It looks likely that Tesla will post sales growth this year for the first time since 2023, and they've got a shot at 2026 being a new record sales year if they can deliver an average of ~485,000 cars in the second half of 2026 — just a bit more than what they delivered in the second quarter.

My car is driving me around like a work of art. It's smooth and precise, sophisticated and refined, and the safety is off the charts. It can react faster than I can and spot things that I missed. They have the best self-driving system in the world with the best unit economics. The world has not woken up to this at all, but they will increasingly with each new Robotaxi city and each new FSD drive.

Self-driving is finally starting to take off. For the first time, the majority (55%) of Tesla orders in North America ordered with the $99 a month self-driving option selected. 45% of paid self-driving users are now on the monthly subscription (as opposed to the legacy option of paying up front) and as more people move to the monthly subscription Tesla is about to cross $1 billion ARR from self-driving subscriptions. Self-driving is already a billion dollar business for them, and it's going to be a trillion dollar business.

Then there's the driverless Robotaxi service. I just tried it in Austin. It's really hard to not get excited about the future Tesla is building when you can call a driverless Tesla and have it drive you around Austin for an hour while you watch Netflix or play games on the front screen.

Then there's the Cybercab... the way they've hyper optimized this thing to be the lowest cost transportation option possible is absolutely refreshing in a world where the average marketed price of a new car is well north of $50,000. I think this is going to hit the market like a glass of ice water in hell. A $25,000 - $30,000 autonomous electric vehicles with no controls, that doesn't require any insurance — just a self-driving subscription.

Optimus and digital Optimus could be much bigger than the entire transportation segment for the company. We've seen frontier models get proficient in controlling our computers. Why couldn't they control a humanoid robot too? I think it's very obvious to everyone that they will inevitably be able to. As that happens, a general purpose robot will be in every home and every business. Sometimes several robots. Tesla is designing everything from the chips to the manufacturing to the models to work together like an Apple product. If they can take even a small % of this market and I think they will do extremely well, because it's a massive market.

But really, when you invest you're investing in the team. A lackluster team can take a great business and turn it into a struggling one, and a great team can take a struggling business and turn it into an incredible one (see: Apple). So the team is really the single most important thing to look at when buying any company.

I believe in Elon and his team. They have been executing like crazy lately. I can't be the only one who has seen it.

Elon didn't become the richest guy in the world by losing his investors money. When SolarCity had liquidity challenges and nobody was left to help, he made a deal with Tesla. When he was forced to pay $44 billion for Twitter despite his claim that the actual number of human users had been wildly inflated inflated, people thought investors were toast. Those shares are now publicly traded as part of SpaceX. I think Elon has a new plan to build a physical and digital AI giant to rival OpenAI and Anthropic in the race for superintelligence.

So I don't know, maybe I'm just an idiot. But I love these products, and they make my life so much better everyday. I just can't shake the belief that the world is going to want them too. Everyone needs autonomous transport, and everyone needs a robot to help them sometimes.

so the more $TSLA dips the more I'll buy. Maybe I'll lose all my money, but that's part of the fun. I just want the future this company is building. to all the other idiots who are still holding like me, we'll get through this together

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

Sunrise on FSD 14 Lite.
2022 model 3 can drive in direct sunlight without issue.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

I've been using it over the past week. It is much better than 12.6. better lane centering, smoother on the highway. It's also been able to make a smooth turn to get onto my street with 12.6 struggled with. Though, I've been noticing a lot more random break stabbing and confused wheel movement just yesterday. (See example below)
Tesla navigation is a limiting factor just like on AI4. No matter what, I can't get FSD to get on or off the express lanes. Looking at the map in those cases, the navigation puts the lane chance at the end of the on ramp rather than at the begining. So it usually tries getting over right before the grass median which triggers a disengagement.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@WorkaholicDavid I've used a fold 4 and fold 6 as daily drivers for years but never found a use for flex mode

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

Thanks @Tesla_AI 14 Lite on 2022 Intel Atom Model 3!

[X @X]

big day to be an Android user

we’ve completely rebuilt X for Android: faster, smoother and way more reliable

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@nikitabier Have these changes made it to the standard X app or are they still part of the X-Lite beta test?

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

Yeah, I have to agree with all of that. Under promising is definitely the way to go as In the background you can continue the extremely fast innovation. But have a larger celebration once it's complete due to people having lower expectations. Though, Tesla does have a bright future ahead and I will be there every step of the way.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@BLKMDL3 This is more navigation based but have any experience getting the car to go on express lanes? My model 3 on 12.6 won't go on the express lanes or get off the express lanes which is one of the main disengagements I have.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@strengthPlan I'd recommend messaging support and requesting a redownload of fsd. I had this issue occur on a model y and they sent an update OTA and it fixed it right away

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@mikepat711 I agree. I don't think autopilot has updated since 2019. It uses a vastly different architecture than the FSD stack. I'd love to see FSD highway (without lane changes) replace basic autopilot autopilot in the future.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@DriveTeslaca Jasper and canmore are both amazing.

Have there been any updates on the lake Louise supercharger? That's the only spot needed to help get from canmore to Athabasca Glacier and back without going all the way to Jasper.

[Dominic Salupo @DSalupo]

@TexasTSLA I use FSD every day to get to work with my 2019 model 3. Never had any major issues. But definitely looking forward to 14 lite.