Kelela

2018 Tesla Model 3. Love Camp Mode-ing across the USA–Pacific to/from Atlantic twice so far.

[En 🇸🇪❤️🇮🇷 @en_enur]

I had an accident with my Tesla and have some interesting findings:
1. The emergency call was automatic (triggered by the airbag deployment?)
2. Only the middle airbag and the side curtains were deployed. Not the steering wheel airbag (Due to an offset collision while spinning?)
3. The driver door was automatically unlocked and opened.
4. The windows were automatically rolled down (to vent airbag smoke?)
5. The glovebox was automatically opened (to be able to retrieve the USB-drive?)
6. The whole car shutdown after a while and the driver door was only available to open through the emergency handle inside of the door.

All in all an excellent safety protocol from all perspective.

Some suggestions to the @Tesla team:
1. Send a push notification to the users of the Tesla app that has access to your vehicle, they are usually next of kin, that an accident has occured, preferably with some short info like "Low speed accident", "High speed accident" "Vehicle rolled over" and some additional info like "automatic emergency call initiated succesfully" and a position of the vehicle to make it easy for someone to drive over to check on them.
2. Put some large text on the screen on what has/will happen with the vehicle, like "Door automatically unlocked" "Vehicle automatic shutdown in 14:37 min" "Please dont forget any valueables in the car" "Retain the USB-drive for future reference with the insurance company" etc etc. Also with a spoken voice if the screen is broken.

[JS @JSX423]

This is getting insane.... Hard to believe something like this can stick around this long.

@Tesla_AI

18 regular open spots were passed before putting car into reverse.

As good as the car is at never not stopping exactly to 0 at stop signs you'd think handicap signs would be simple.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Just my 2 cents of what I’ve been thinking about lately…

I could one day see companies eventually sponsoring Tesla Robotaxi rides, which could quietly create an entirely new business for Tesla.

Imagine opening the Tesla app and seeing a sponsored ride from a company like McDonald’s, Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola, or Netflix. A brand could cover part, or even all, of your fare in exchange for getting its name/products in front of riders.

Everyone wins in this situation.

Riders pay less, brands get customers through the door, and Tesla creates another high-margin revenue stream on top of the ride itself.

Companies could also sponsor themed Cybercabs with custom wraps, offer exclusive discounts during the ride, or reward loyalty members with ride credits. For example, a restaurant could offer a free ride home after dinner. A retailer could sponsor rides to a shopping center during the holidays. Events, concerts, and sports teams could cover transportation for fans.

And since Tesla controls the vehicles, the software, and the app, it can tie the entire experience together in a way traditional ride-hailing companies simply can’t.

The awesome thing is that this will not require Tesla to reinvent anything… once the Robotaxi network reaches meaningful scale, adding sponsorships would mostly be a software and business development opportunity. It could help lower ride prices, increase demand, keep vehicles busier, and generate additional high-margin revenue with relatively little added $ cost.

Tesla hasn’t announced anything like this, so it’s just an idea today.

But it feels like one of those obvious opportunities that becomes much more valuable as the Robotaxi network grows into the millions. The autonomous transportation business alone is super exciting, but if Tesla can layer advertising and brand partnerships on top, it could unlock another meaningful revenue stream that many investors are probably not thinking about today.

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@DriveTeslaca @CzechArtGirl @cybertruck With thanks for the minimal injuries, I'm looking forward to watching the TeslaCam version of that accident

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@ViralReelAddict 8597

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were filmed assaulting, handcuffing, and kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Passaic, New Jersey… while refusing to even look at the ID he repeatedly begged them to check.

A man is pleading with federal agents to verify who he is…

And they refused.

Instead, one agent says, “We need to get him on the ground,” puts him in a chokehold, throws him to the ground, and multiple agents pile on top of him before handcuffing him, and throwing him into their vehicle.

Under the Fourth Amendment, the government cannot arrest, or seize someone, without probable cause that they have committed, are committing, or are about to commit an offense that authorizes the arrest.

U.S. citizens are also not required to carry identification unless they’re driving a motorized vehicle.

And if federal agents are refusing to verify someone’s identity before arresting them, then they are openly ignoring the constitution.

Which should terrify every American.

Because that means no one is safe from being kidnapped by the government… and disappeared.

Every agent involved should be publicly identified, and DHS should be forced to explain why they believed they had the legal authority to seize someone, while refusing to verify who he was.

This cannot become normal.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Watch the exchange, because the transcript undersells it.

Ten Epstein survivors sat in the hearing room this morning. Senator Dick Durbin pointed to them and asked the man nominated to run the Justice Department for his word, under oath: will you personally sit down with these ten women within 30 days?

By one reporter's count, Durbin asked six times.
Blanche never said yes.

He said he "could." He said it "could get done as soon as today." He offered a staffer. And he reached for a shield: "If they have lawyers, as you know, I'm prohibited from meeting directly with them."

Durbin's reply: "You're dancing on the head of a pin."

Here's why the shield doesn't hold.

The rule Blanche cited doesn't prohibit the meeting — it routes it through the survivors' lawyers.

He knows this, because he has used that exact route before: last summer, he personally flew to Florida and questioned Ghislaine Maxwell — a represented, convicted trafficker — for two days, arranged through her attorney, with her attorney present.

Shortly after, she was transferred to a minimum-security camp.

The survivors have been asking for over a year. In May, after Blanche claimed he'd met with survivors, eighteen of them issued a statement: he "has not met with any of us."

He found two days for the woman who trafficked them.
He cannot find one hour for them.

The Senate votes on his confirmation next week.
The survivors already told them what to do.

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@lippyent 7

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk was asked at a private dinner what he thinks about when he can't sleep at night. The table expected him to say Mars. Or AI. Or some engineering problem he was working through. His actual answer made the room go quiet.

He said he thinks about whether he's a good person. Not whether his companies are successful. Not whether the rockets will fly. Whether he, as a human being, is good.

He said the question terrifies him because he doesn't know the answer. He said by most conventional measures he's failed at the things that make someone good. He wasn't there for his kids. He hurt the women who loved him. He drove employees past their limits. He made decisions that prioritized the mission over individual human beings every single time.

He said the defense he tells himself is that the mission is bigger than any individual. That the suffering he caused is justified by the future he's building for eight billion people. But he admitted at that dinner that some nights the defense doesn't hold. Some nights the math doesn't work. And he lies there knowing that "I'm building a better future" might just be the story a workaholic tells himself to avoid confronting the damage.

The richest and arguably most impactful man alive isn't sure he's a good person. And the honesty of that doubt tells you more about his character than any rocket launch ever could. The people who are certain they're good rarely question it. The ones who question it at 3am might be the ones actually trying.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

One thing I like about Tesla and SpaceX is that their messaging is always hopeful. They have never used climate change as a scare tactic—“If you don’t buy our cars, the planet will die!”

When our backyard was showering ashes from the Bay Area fires, the news was full of climate change fears, but Tesla never took that opportunity to scare people into a zero-emission lifestyle. Instead, despite COVID difficulties, it remained hopeful with the first Model Y delivery.

Many other companies have tried to scare people with climate change. Did they ever move the needle to save the planet? No. Instead, they pushed regulations so only their products could “save the planet” and force people to use them. The result was higher costs due to regulatory capture.

My favorite Tesla livestream was Battery Day in 2020. Many people had just lost their houses to historic wildfires and COVID lockdowns. Yet people still attended, sitting inside their Teslas. Elon cheerfully took the stage to inspire everyone that the future is still bright.

Fear is not the road to salvation. Hope is. The same tactic is now being used on AI. If the climate change campaigns of past decades are any historical lesson, fear and self-righteousness are not the answer.

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@Sadie_Inward @TechOperator My approach, honed over 150K Tesla miles including many long road trips (currently 518 unique Supercharger stations across America) is to ensure I have at least 20% on arrival at the next destination. I completely disregard the “enough” notification.

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@DoctorJack16 Why not just split the difference and make permanent a perennial half-hour shift to the middle?

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@TheEVuniverse Hi

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@thecurioustales Everyone said the opal in my wedding ring would be a problem. 36+ years later it looks brand new.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

The DOJ is now 206 days past the legal deadline for the Epstein files.

Not a request.
Not a campaign promise.
A federal law.

Every day of delay denies survivors answers and shields the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world from scrutiny.

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

Epstein network survivor Sarah Ransome has described daily rape, starvation, and being recaptured after an escape attempt. This is not chaos. It is complete control.
Release the remaining Epstein files.

[JS @JSX423]

At the point I don't even care anymore.

FSD is too safe to not allow the user to allow 1 mph rolling stops.

I obviously know the law - but the user/supervisor/person responsible for vehicle should be able to allow via an toggle-able OPTION.

We can select Mad Max and go 85 in a 55 but cannot select rolling stops to blend in - which saves almost 3 seconds to go from 10mph to "stop" to 10mph???

This is actually probably a piece of increasing take rate. It's too brutal right now to use FSD around others daily. 99.5% of drivers roll stop signs per Tesla.

(Not: I accelerated manually in top video in FSD when I "felt" I was not moving)

@Tesla_AI

[Kelela @KelelaSB]

@edgecase411 Yesterday it completely missed an onramp that it had over a mile to get right.

[Aryan Butala @butala_aryan]

CRITICAL FSD disengagement at highway speed.

Details:
~ car was extremely indecisive taking the exit
~ You can see right before I disengaged, the steering wheel was turning slightly left toward the barrier
~ also waited until the very last minute, cutting across 4 lanes to make the exit in under 10 seconds
~ I believe it was going to drive into the barrier
~ Mad Max mode
~ The car behind me was cut also about to collide due to this indecisiveness
~ FSD v14.3.4 on 2026.14.6.12
~ Completely sunny day, sun was above not in frony (no glare)
~ All cameras were clean
~ Houston

I am a very grateful and avid FSD user, but never in my 3 years of usage have I experienced such a critical disengagement. I made sure to mark it as critical in the menu. Also, the video clip doesn't really justify how much I had to swerve and avoid that barrier, also having to accelerate hard since the car behind me didn't expect that.

Please repost and share so @Tesla_AI can see this and fix it 🙏
@elonmusk

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.