Yesterday, I drove over 4 hours using Cybertruck FSD 14.3.2 without ever touching the steering wheel or pedals. It was flawless.
It was the most comfortable Tesla FSD experience I've ever had.
We are now living in a world where a pickup truck will drive you for hours on end, without you having to do anything besides clicking a button on the screen to start.
It feels magical. People have no idea.
Model Y L earns 5 stars from ANCAP ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Tesla’s new six-seat long-wheelbase Model Y L has officially received a 5-star safety rating from ANCAP (Australia & New Zealand)
Scores:
• 91% Adult Occupant Protection
• 84% Child Occupant Protection
• 92% Safety Assist
The Model Y L is now rolling out across multiple markets (including Australia & New Zealand), offering more space, longer range, and class-leading safety tech
Another win for Tesla’s safety legacy - built for families who want the safest SUV on the road
Start your week with some new photos from Artemis II!
Though our journey around the Moon has ended, we're still retrieving plenty of new images. Keep an eye on our Artemis II multimedia gallery for image highlights from the mission: https://t.co/XInWMJwMYY
If it's true that money cannot buy happiness, one confirming data point was Musk's mood when he became the person with the most of it. He was not happy in the fall of 2021. When he flew to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico for a birthday party Kimbal had organized for his wife Christiana in October, where Grimes performed as DJ, he shut himself in his room and played Polytopia much of the time.
"We were underneath this art piece with interactive lights dancing to beautiful music from Grimes," Christiana says.
“I thought about how our good fortune was thanks to Elon, but he just couldn't let himself enjoy the moment."
As often happened, his mood swings and depression were manifest as stomach pains. He was throwing up and had intense heartburn. "Any great docs you'd recommend?" he texted when he cut short his visit to Cabo. "They don't need to be famous or fancy offices." I asked if he was all right. "I'm not super OK, tbh," he responded.
"I've been burning the candle at both ends with a flamethrower for a very long time. It has taken its toll. I was very ill this weekend."
A few weeks later, he opened up more. We spoke for more than two hours, much of it about the mental and physical scars he still had in 2021: From 2007 onwards, until maybe last year, it's been nonstop pain. There's a gun to your head, make Tesla work, pull a rabbit out of your hat, then pull another rabbit out of the hat. A stream of rabbits flying through the air. If the next rabbit does not come out, you're dead. It takes a toll. You can't be in a constant fight for survival, always in adrenaline mode, and not have it hurt you. But there's something else l've found this year. It's that fighting to survive keeps you going for quite a while. When you are no longer in survive-or-die mode, it's not that easy to get motivated every day. This was an essential insight that Musk had about himself. When things were most dire, he got energized. It was the siege mentality from his South African childhood. But when he was not in survival-or-die mode, he felt unsettled. What should have been the good times were unnerving for him. It prompted him to launch surges, stir up dramas, throw himself into battles he could have bypassed, and bite off new endeavors.
That Thanksgiving, his mother and sister flew to Austin to celebrate with him, his four older sons, X, and Grimes. Two of his cousins and his two half-sisters from his father's second marriage were also there.
"We needed to be with him because he gets lonely,
," Maye says. "He loves to have family around and we have to do that for him, you know, because he's under so much stress."
Source: Walter Isaacson's 'ElonMusk' (2023), chapter 67