Rangeesh V

Member of Technical Staff, Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics

Prev. Tesla Autopilot - shipped Actually Smart Summon

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

Now, isn't that a beautiful sight!

[Tesla @Tesla]

Actually Smart Summon 🍑 enables your car to come to you from anywhere in the parking lot

You can also send it to a location of your choosing

[Sr.Sinha @AdhirSinha]

*An advice from a senior citizen currently visiting the US*
Dear friends,
We have been staying in Seattle, Washington, for the past two months. My wife was suffering from a severe respiratory issue when we left India. After using those medicines from India,here in the US, she had almost recovered.
However, as our supply ran out, So, I asked my daughter to schedule an appointment with a pulmonologist (respiratory specialist) in Seattle.
we had to consult a general physician first. We were given an appointment for a week later—and that too, only via a video call.
We spoke to the doctor on the phone for about 10 minutes.He said he understood the issue and prescribed appropriate medicines, stating that we could pick them up from a pharmacy.we were told the medicines were not immediately available and would take 4–5 days to arrive.
We finally received the medicines on the fifth day. Surprisingly, the medicines were manufactured by 'Cipla' and bore the label 'Made in India'. Even after a 50% discount through US medical insurance, we still had to pay an equivalent of ₹21,000. This means medicines costing just ₹2,500 in India cost a staggering ₹42,000 in the US.
It took us 12 days to obtain medicines here that are readily available at any pharmacy in India. A week later, we received a bill of $283 (approximately ₹23,000) for the doctor's consultation fee.

Consider yourselves to be fortunate to be living in India during your retirement years.

We often look abroad in search of a "good life." But if we pause to think... certain everyday conveniences—unavailable even to billionaires in London or New York—are easily accessible to the middle class in India.

Here are *7 examples* showing that even the life of a common person in our country is a **VIP lifestyle**:

*1 Data Democratization:*
While countries around the world spend over $50 (approx. ₹4,000) a month for basic internet, we enjoy high-speed 5G data for just ₹300. We have the cheapest data in the world! This is what has digitally transformed our economy.

*2 The "10-Minute" doorstep delivery:*
Run out of ginger for your tea or out of milk? Place an order on Blinkit, Zepto, or Swiggy Instamart, and the item is in your hands before the water even boils. In Europe, by contrast, you’d have to put on a coat and walk 15 minutes in the cold to a store—and you wouldn't be surprised to find it already closed.

*3 Instant Healthcare:*
Need to see a specialist? You can go straight to the hospital. Need a blood test? A lab technician comes to your home as early as 6 AM to collect the sample, and the report arrives on your WhatsApp by afternoon. We don't face the three-month waiting lists or the nightmare of "insurance approvals" common elsewhere even for trivial ailments.

*4 Human Support System:*
Having people to help with house cleaning, cooking, and driving isn't a luxury reserved only for the wealthy here; it is the backbone of middle-class life. It offers something incredibly valuable: it saves **TIME**.

*5 The UPI Revolution:*
From a ₹5 roadside tea to a ₹50,000 laptop—everything is just a scan away! No need for wallets, no excuses like "the card machine isn't working," and absolutely no transaction fees. In this regard, the rest of the world lags far behind us.

*6 *"Free" Little Joys:*
No matter which restaurant you visit, you get a glass of drinking water for free (whereas elsewhere, they’d charge you $5). There’s an ironing man / chai wallah right at the end of the street to take care of our instant needs. It is these little things that make life run so smoothly.

*7 Social Bonds (Social Safety Net):*
We don't live in a culture of legal notices and courts; we live in a culture of relationships. If we face a problem, a neighbor won't send a court notice—they’ll lovingly cook and send over some *khichdi*.
*The Bottom Line:*
India is not merely a country; it is a wonderful world filled with conveniences at every turn.

[Tesladvisor @Tesladvisor]

FSD just saved me $400 and a trip to the tow yard this morning!

Last night there was no parking anywhere in our apartment complex, so we risked the 7AM loading zone. Wife: “they won’t tow on a Sunday.”

7:15 AM: having breakfast and notice a security guard taking pics of our car, about to call the tow truck, from our 5th floor apartment window

Wife: “RUN!!”
Me: no shoes on
Wife: “WAIT - just summon it!”

I pull up the Tesla app on my iPhone and hit the summon button from our breakfast table.

The car wakes up and begins driving away as the guard is taking photos, leaving him completely dumbfounded. Then the car pulls up directly to our building’s front door.

I run downstairs and jump in the car. Pull up to the security guard, who is surprisingly laughing and amazed: “HOLY SH*T THAT THING DOES THAT BY ITSELF?! LIKE ONE OF THOSE WAYMO THINGS?”

“No, it’s much better than a Waymo, actually!”

Ended up giving a full FSD TED talk to a very impressed security guard this morning 😂

Thanks for saving me $400 and a trip to the tow yard this morning @elonmusk @Tesla_AI 🫡

FSD was definitely my best purchase ever!

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

Actually Smart Summon (Unleashed) :P

[Tesla @Tesla]

World's first autonomous delivery of a car!

This Tesla drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to its new owner's home ~30min away — crossing parking lots, highways & the city to reach its new owner

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The first fully autonomous delivery of a Tesla Model Y from factory to a customer home across town, including highways, was just completed a day ahead of schedule!!

Congratulations to the @Tesla_AI teams, both software & AI chip design!

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

Haha!

[Zack @BLKMDL3]

Here’s what happens when you try tipping the @robotaxi 😂😂😂

@elonmusk @Tesla_AI

[Tesla @Tesla]

https://t.co/DQsC4h8QvL

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

Crazy stuff!!

[Tesla Optimus @Tesla_Optimus]

Was just getting warmed up

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

FSD Supervised ride-hailing service is live for an early set of employees in Austin & San Francisco Bay Area.

We've completed over 1.5k trips & 15k miles of driving.

This service helps us develop & validate FSD networks, the mobile app, vehicle allocation, mission control & remote assistance operations

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

Teslas now drive themselves from their birthplace at the factory to their designated loading dock lanes without human intervention

One step closer to large-scale unsupervised FSD

[Chaithanya Kumar @ChaithanyaK42]

Do Hard Things

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

@awaisahmedna Pretty impressive feat!

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

The final six on Day4 was a statement by Deep! Monstrous six!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

@immunewolf_ I did Google it:) anyone who can hook Cummins for a six knows how to bat! Well done @Jaspritbumrah93 saving the follow on with Deep!

[Zack @BLKMDL3]

V13 is MINDBLOWING.

Here’s the first drive video with FSD v13.2.1. 31 mins from parking lot to parking spot with ZERO disengagements or interventions. I can’t believe how smooth it is- it’s incredible.

This is it folks, it’s here.
@elonmusk @Tesla_AI

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: Tesla China has officially announced the launch of Actually Smart Summon (ASS) in China.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@aelluswamy @cybertruck @Tesla_AI Actually Smart Summon is 🔥🔥

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character.

Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”

— Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

It's going to be fun!

[Tesla @Tesla]

The future will be streamed live

10/10, 7pm PT https://t.co/YJEjZIYoTA

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Kyle Krueger said he'd try Tesla's new Actually Smart Summon at a packed Costco parking lot if his first video got 100k likes. It got 1.5 million. Here's him using it at Costco:

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

@SawyerMerritt @Tesla Great job by the @Tesla_AI team on meeting the goals laid out for September🤩

End-to-end on the highway is first shipping to Cybertrucks. We are close to an early release build for remaining platforms and will release to internal employees in the next week or so.

[Rangeesh V @VRANGEESH]

All this with just a single software update! Incredible stuff :)

[AJ Agarwal @OGMarsLife]

So I tried ASS for the first time today on my HW3 with FSD 12.5.4, with none other than @chuckcook. Turned out to be quite an adventure. Here's my uncut post.

ASS had to deal with overcast conditions with light spurts of rain, lots of pedestrians, geese🦢, and more geese 🦢🦢. Recommend watching the whole thing. We covered a LOT!!

Verdict: ASS is a profound glimpse into the future IMO. Vision of robot/human harmony and coexistence at it's best if you ask me.

This was sooo much fun Chuck. So stoked for round 2 tomorrow 🫶 (rain gods please take a vaca).

00:00 Intro by Chuck
02:25 The very first one
06:33 Respect the curb sensei🙏
07:36 - HW3 vs 4 camera view differences
07:50 Hello geese fam Ima backup no worries 🦢
10:25 More FSD and geese 🦢
12:25 "hater" honk? You decide
13:45 Come to me Robot!!
14:35 Please don't leave me MARSLIFE🥹
17:10 Public road hard-stop. Safety first!
17:55 Go get me some grub!
18:10 Learn by observation
19:48 FSD + Geese try 3 🫶