Cybercab at the National Federation of the Blind's Annual Convention in Austin for a hands-on experience of its accessibility features for blind or visually impaired customers For example: – Braille lettering on physical controls
– Space for service animals & assistive devices
– Wheelchair-height seating for easier transfers
Cybercab at the National Federation of the Blind's Annual Convention in Austin for a hands-on experience of its accessibility features for blind or visually impaired customers For example: – Braille lettering on physical controls
– Space for service animals & assistive devices
– Wheelchair-height seating for easier transfers
Ford is done.
GM is done.
Honda is done.
Toyota is dying.
Now FOUR of my employees have bought Tesla Model Y vehicles. They let me drive one. I was blown away... again. Full-Self Driving (FSD) is highly evolved. Human-like in its decisions. Feels safer than any human driver.
I told my staff to install a couple of charging stations at my company parking lot. We're going to offer free charging to any employee that drives an EV. (F*ck gas prices and war in the Persian Gulf!)
The future of personal transport vehicles on this planet belongs to Tesla, BYD, CATL and maybe a couple of other companies. And all of them will be EVs.
At this point, driving a combustion engine vehicle for daily tasks seems obsolete.
And I don't believe a single thing about climate alarmism and all those cultists who hate carbon dioxide. EVs make sense simply from an economics perspective: They're a fraction of the cost to operate, and much simpler to maintain (no oil changes, no engine air filter, no fuel filter, etc.). Plus, you can charge them from sunlight and get entirely off-grid with your "fuel" supply. (I'll be publishing videos showing this in my studio soon.)
Yes, I used to mock EVs. I once said I would never ride in a self-driving vehicle. I was wrong. The technology has been transformed. Battery chemistry improvements have enabled solid range capabilities and very good specifications on charge/discharge cycles. Tesla's FSD capabilities are far stronger than I thought was possible. They've outdone themselves.
Now, I'm absolutely convinced: I will never buy another combustion engine vehicle again.
Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.
And the reason is worse than they think.
Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”
They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.
Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.
Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.
Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.
A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.
Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”
Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.
Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”
SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.
Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.
Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.
That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.
A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.
They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.
Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
For those that won't take the time to watch Mamdani's speech, just know he also took a direct shot at Elon:
"We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more."
This is clearly designed to get people to dislike Elon and think he's bad for America which is the height of stupidity. Life is NOT a zero-sum game. Elon's wealth creation (mostly tied up in his companies, btw) is in NO WAY the reason we have pockets of food insecurity or wealth inequality
Elon has directly and indirectly created industries that have provided for millions of families and raised living standards for many more. Elon's "hunger for more" is actually more ambition directed at solving hard technical problems to make our world a better, safer place and to make life multiplanetary to preserve the light of consciousness, creating millions of jobs through multiple tiers of the supply chains
America was built by capitalist institutions and incentives - credible property rights, low barriers to productive activity, reliable contract enforcement and a culture that supports achievement through voluntary means
I'd also add that the US already redistributes enormous resources and despite this, food insecurity rates have not gone to zero
Mamdani is a wolf in sheep's clothing. Elon said it best, if Mamdani's policies are put into place at scale, it will be a catastrophic decline in living standards for everyone
🇬🇧 UK Government to legally take over the YouTube algorithm.
They will force the platform to promote “approved” content and hide critics of the regime.
Pure dictatorship in disguise.
This is an attack on free speech.
Stop it before it’s too late.
Source: @BasilTheGreat / Writer: Samuel
Introducing Model Y Long Wheelbase – now available in the US & Puerto Rico
A 3-row, 6-seat configuration that brings exceptional interior space with ample headroom & legroom for all passengers
0-60 in 4.4 seconds
325 miles of range
– Front row: Heated/ventilated seats w/ powered thigh cushion
– Second row: Heated/ventilated captain seats w/ powered armrests & one‑touch fold
– Third row: Heated seats w/ power recline, one‑touch fold & child seat anchors
– Improved airflow, increased efficiency & more range
– 89 cu ft of trunk space: with 6 passengers, trunk still fits a 28" and 20" suitcase each, plus frunk holds an additional 20" suitcase. Oversized items like snowboards and bikes also fit easily
– Engineered for safety w/ seat belts & side air bag optimized for second & third row
– Upgraded acoustic glass & suspension to minimize road noise
– Adaptive damping for a smooth, stable ride
– Staggered tires for enhanced grip
– Larger tailgate for better rear visibility & bigger windows overall to deliver great views from every seat
– 16" first row & 8” second row touchscreens + 19-speaker immersive Tesla Audio
– Upgraded 50W wireless charging pads w/ active cooling & charging ports for all other seats
– FSD Supervised & integrated Grok AI
https://t.co/erculCry18