Two sources close to the suppliers said that Tesla places orders about two months in advance, and they have already seen specific orders for hundreds of units in August. Based on this estimate, Tesla’s suppliers will have the capacity to supply parts for 100,000 Optimus units annually by the end of the year. It is understood that before placing orders with the supply chain, Musk approved the latest version of Optimus at an executive meeting in late June. This means that after more than three years of research and development, Optimus Gen 3 will finally leave the lab and enter mass production.
@RandyWKirk1 Cybercab cleaning and charging depot v1 introduction is my bet. Robotic arms vacuuming, some way to wash the outside and wireless charging pads.
San Francisco, CA (JUL.04 + 05 2026)-
The Sunset Project™️ has been busy over the last 24 hours, trying to sort out the carnage in the Bay Area last night.
No matter how you look at it, Waymo brought several areas of the city to a complete standstill and blocked emergency vehicles, as well as all other traffic for hours on end.
So far here are the factors that caused the total system failure (all typical issues regularly shown here on the program)-
1. Targeting events. Waymos were damaged and one OJAI destroyed from external attacks.
2. Widescale freeze events due to failure to proceed through an intersection or stop sign controlled intersection for a period of time that requires a remote supervisor to help.
3. Power outage stoplights. We found a couple examples of blinking stop lights which Waymo continues to struggle without supervisor assistance.
4. Heavy pedestrian interference.
As a Waymo fails to pass through an intersection or make progress on the street for a certain period of time, they appear to require supervisor assistance to validate a route. This process could not be completed in a timely manner as the supervisor controlled route planning system was overwhelmed by too many vehicle requests.
5. Long periods of frozen vehicles in traffic caused several Waymos to become bricked most likely from dead batteries.
None of these are new issues.
These are all the same general safety critical failures that we see every day from the Waymo Driver system. Once these issues are combined at scale on a busy evening, you effectively have a complete shutdown of a city.
We will wait for Waymo to make the same PR announcement that they always make-
Some of their vehicles were impacted, and they have learned a lot from what happened.
They won’t ever tell us what they learned or how they will fix it, but they always tell us how much they are learning.
The video is a montage of several contributors all sending in video to the Sunset project.
We were going to replace the audio with a single track of ‘Taps’. Maybe next time.
#NeedIntelligence
#NeedInference
#ManilaWeHaveAProblem
#SensorDysphoria
#Freeze