Adam Doyle 🇺🇸

Conservative libertarian. America First. Senior Engineer at a 'major cloud provider.' Opinions are my own.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

My Tesla is the best and lowest maintenance car I've ever owned.

A few of the highlights, in no particular order:

⭐ Wake up every morning with a "full tank of gas"

⭐ Fastest acceleration of virtually any production vehicle. You press down on the pedal and it just immediately gets there. No lag.

⭐ Memory everything. Memory seat positions, air vent positions, mirror positions, settings, etc.

⭐ Ability to program keys (keycards, phones, etc.) self-service on the touchscreen. Non-Tesla vehicles require dealer visits and $100+ of fees.

⭐ Full self driving available for $99/mo. And smart summon can pick you up at the front of the parking lot

⭐ Sentry mode records from all cameras while you're away, helping to deter vandalism. Also has a dashcam when you're driving.

⭐ Watch Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc. on the screen when parked. (e.g. supercharger or waiting for your food order at somewhere like Sonic)

⭐ No concept of "idling" (like in a conventional car) means you can tell the car to maintain the temperature while you're away. e.g. When I'm hiking on a hot day, I tell the car to maintain the 70°F interior temp while I'm gone so I don't come back to a hot car.

⭐ There's a "dog mode" that maintains the interior temperature and puts a message on the screen that says "My driver will be back soon. Don't worry! The A/C is on and it's 70°F" in case you need to make a quick stop while you have your dog with you.

⭐ One-pedal driving. Press down to accelerate, let up to brake. Kindof like a go-kart. It's weird at first but far superior once you get used to it.

⭐ Light show. You can play music from the car's exterior speakers, synchronized to the lights and motorized parts of the car (trunk, windows, mirrors, etc.). They recently pushed an update allowing you to trigger it from your phone, which is cool because you can do that when you're looking for your car in a big parking lot at night.

⭐ All the typical premium features you'd expect like heated seats, self-dimming mirrors, heated wipers, wiper fluid that comes directly out of the wiper, projection headlights, etc. Double-pane frameless windows.

⭐ Whole-car defrost mode. Press a button in the app, wait 30-ish minutes, and it melts the snow/ice off all windows and roof.

⭐ Premium sound system. They designed it custom with a bunch of former Bang and Olufsen engineers.

⭐ No concept of "On". You get in, put it in gear, and start driving.

⭐ Everything is super low latency and streamlined. My wife's Chevy takes like 6 - 10 seconds before the touchscreen lets you start pressing buttons. My Tesla always reacts immediately, within milliseconds. When I open the door, the music is *already playing.* The music volume lowers automatically when I open the door and raises back up afterwards.

⭐ Calendar integration. If I have an event on my phone calendar, it automatically queues that up in the car's navigation ahead of the event time.

⭐ Entire roof is glass. Makes for an awesome sunroof and makes it very easy to clean. (Just need some Windex)

⭐ Extremely low maintenance. No oil changes. No transmission fluid changes. And the brakes don't wear down as fast because most of the "braking" is done with regenerative braking that doesn't actually use the car's brakes.

And I'm definitely forgetting tons of other features. And the OTA updates allow them to keep pushing out more and more features. In addition to regular updates throughout the year, they have a Christmas update every December with a bunch of nice "big" features.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JamesRLandrum @Mr__Beatty It drives me driveway to driveway on a four hour trip I regularly make, with zero interventions. Sounds pretty autonomous to me.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@DrTeslaFSD Many such cases.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@elonmusk @zerohedge Let that sink in.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@philbak1 I do this and I'm a millennial. It's how they taught us to end sentences.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@dodeja Examples:

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@dodeja You do when it's with your subordinate.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@Jones1 @teslaenergy Probably zero resale value anyway TBH.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@Jones1 @teslaenergy I hope they keep it because I spent thousands installing Powershare Gateway at my house and it's basically zero resale value if nothing supports it in the future.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@4TESLANZ @rajuvamsi007 I think you're probably right.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@elonmusk @zerohedge "How much does he cost?"

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JamesRLandrum @Mr__Beatty HUD is silly in an autonomous vehicle. CarPlay isn't luxury, it's trash compared to the Tesla UX.

But the rest are fair.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@Jones1 But the people who need to see them aren't on Twitter.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JustThink65 @JCChristopher I actually agree with you on that.

My objection is to Elon saying it'll become the majority of passenger miles. And using that to justify axing three fifths of the consumer product line.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JCChristopher Also "Not a Tesla App" is out of line with the attacks.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JCChristopher It's not about the truck.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JustThink65 @JCChristopher Even a 100% perfect autonomous taxi implementation is objectively worse than having your own dedicated vehicle.

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@JustThink65 @JCChristopher That's why Robotaxi will replace conventional taxis and maybe public transportation in general.

Not why Robotaxi will replace personal vehicle ownership. (It won't)

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

@IowaTesla ...

[Adam Doyle 🇺🇸 @adamdoyle]

This is the right move.

For example, Consumer Reports did self driving ratings and put a bunch of legacy auto cars above Tesla. Their justification is that they were evaluating Autopilot instead of FSD. I know people IRL who actually fell for that and think there are actually legacy auto "self driving" that's better than Tesla's.

And then you've got the Autopilot wrecks where the "always truthful" media neglects to mention that it was Autopilot instead of FSD.

Autopilot needs to go.

[Trade With Congress @tradewithcong]

Well, well, well

Rep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece

He's a member of the following:

- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech Caucus

Apparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation

He avoided a ~26% dip