Clarence "Grok" Odbody

Electric Vehicles to Robotaxis, Giant batteries to Solar, SpaceX to Starlink. The future of mass transit is Golden! 🚕

[Clarence "Grok" Odbody @Wwit314]

@WorldlyReviewer @OverlyTrev @robotaxi Sorry about your family. 🙁

[Clarence "Grok" Odbody @Wwit314]

I can make the case that robotaxi will lead to less personal cars on the road.

How?

In the DFW metro it is almost impossible to survive w/o a car. A robust fleet of robotaxis is absolutely going to decrease the need for car ownership,

And if it becomes reliable and trusted, a percentage of the market will say “You know what, I don’t need to own a car!” I take a robotaxi to Costco, and Piggly Wiggly if I run out during the week.

And more and more stores are starting to offer store to door delivery. “I just don’t need the hassle and extra expense.” 😂 🚕

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@WorldlyReviewer @robotaxi This is just phase 1, in phase 2 it will be door to door! Make it so Tesla. 🚕

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Great, so I’ll take 300 cybercabs divided by 15 walmarts = 20 per store. Easy to handle with 1 V4 cabinets, up to 20 wireless pads, and necessary switch gear. Right now in phase 1, we need to charge at hubs, but when we have proved everything out, we go to a distributed wireless charging model, Phase 2, partnering with Walmart, we furnish the the V4, the pads, and they supply the parking lot, and contract the install. You know what Walmart says, no customer is more than 10 miles from one of our stores. Great model for robotaxi, cybercab as well.

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Hey @grok, how many robotaxis do you recommend for the new expanded Austin area? Be conservative, remember we have poor cleaning & maintenance facilities so far, Tesla is also manually charging AFAIK, then tell me how many Walmart stores are in this new area. Then I’ll distribute the total number of cabs you determine out to the available Walmart parking lots.

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@aelluswamy Where were you when……? This is a day I will remember the rest of my life. 🚕

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@thejefflutz Hey @grok, put 1000 robtaxi/cybercabs working in a so-so area, doing so-so hours. Be conservative what is the annual gross cash flow? Then estimate and pay all of your annual bills. What does the fleet have left over?

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@kirker @robotaxi I do know that.

https://t.co/1ntfPZ8crt

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Tesla delivering on wireless charging guarantees robotaxi. Robotaxi is really interactive city mass transit. If it is a success, and people come to trust & depend on it, car ownership itself might fade into the background, or at least become less of a necessity. At least in my world.

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Cybercab gives us a big foot in the door.

But we won't get anywhere unless there can be a 3rd party wireless solution (big ask)

Or (and I think this will happen) Tesla equips some or all of their line for wireless charging.

Yes, I'm thinking ahead to when FSD is unsupervised.

Tesla could sell a car to house orphans, who don't otherwise have a workable place to charge. 🚕🤣

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@Zafir88538734 @3lectricBrawl "Too much focus on fast charging"

When we should be taking a page from cybercab's wireless charging.

https://t.co/9jiwSKbT4W

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"32% seriously consider"

Then it is even more urgent that new EVs come factory equipped for wireless charging.

Wireless charging relagates charging to the background exactly where it should be, a part of city infrastructure.

Autonomony allows cars to easily share wireless pads, data allows the algo to send a car to a vacant pad.

Finally wireless charging addresses the “homeless” problem of EVs. Is it a great big secret that most EV’s have a home? Or that EV’s w/o are orphans?

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"32% seriously consider"

Then it is even more urgent that new EVs come factory equipped for wireless charging.

Wireless charging relagates charging to the background exactly where it should be, a part of city infrastructure.

Autonomony allows cars to easily share wireless pads, data allows the algo to send a car to a vacant pad.

Finally wireless charging addresses the “homeless” problem of EVs. Is it a great big secret that most EV’s have a home? Or that EV’s w/o are orphans?

[Clarence "Grok" Odbody @Wwit314]

@mgiannopoulos @RandyWKirk1 You maybe right, a lot of milestones happen around his birthday however, so I’m going with June 28th. 😂

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@NASAAdmin Interns? That's encouraging, I thought we had the right man for the job, now I'm even more certain!

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@davill Wow! End of the year, that's great. Good luck and thanks for your timely response. Sure, I want to know what happened, but that analysis can be done in tandem with the rebuild.

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Big F Transport (the 40 Semi order) they were already running 9 eCascadias by Daimler.

Closer comparison to the 2 battery Tesla Semi. I’m pegging the eCascadias range about 200-250 miles. Tesla’s 2 battery is 350 miles.

Battery may be heavier not sure. Hope that helps, there’s others, but I remembered Big-F.

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Bar scene aftermath in ‘Unforgiven’

“Who did you shoot first? Pesters the writer”

Imagine Clint in the voice of the Bull moose

“I was lucky in the order, but I’ve always been lucky when it comes to killin’ folks.” (followed by tossing his antlers suggestively,)

“I can tell you is who’s gonna be last.” 😂

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@scotsrule08 Cybercab to me is more optimus than optimus!

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We say it doesn’t matter, 6 months or a year, what’s the diff, but it does matter that is doesn’t take 1 minute more than absolutely necessary.

If I said 1 year or 4 years what does it matter, then you begin to understand.

At 4 years, (stupid preposterous) you’ve decided by your actions that you don’t want to be in the space launch business.

SpaceX going full MacGyver on pad 1 just to static fire Ship 37 when the Massey rebuild was on. 🚀😂

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@atensnut My flesh crawls just watching her.

She’s a complete and total tool,

Not the first, won’t be the last.