Esa Salonen

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

New World Record 678 cars (Tesla's) light show

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

If you know how to press a button and enjoy the view, you already know how to use Tesla FSD.

It’s like taking an elevator, except instead of riding between floors, you’re traveling to your destination while taking in the scenery.

The car does the driving.

You enjoy the journey.

$99 per month for one of the most consequential technologies of our time is truly a steal.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Tesla Unsupervised Full Self-Kitty in Miami🐱

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

FSD v14 Lite is now rolling out to AI3 early-access customers. Based on the feedback, will rollout to more customers over the next few weeks.

This build distills the driving behavior from AI4’s v14 series into both the camera and compute config of AI3. It includes destination options and speed profiles on city roads, but more importantly significantly improved safety.

We hope you’ll enjoy it, once the build ships wide.

[Anders S ☀️🌬💧+🔋=🌍 @asoderqvist]

Finland har smartare myndighetspersoner än Sverige

[Billy @billykyle]

Ok so Summon is actually a sick feature. It weaved through my apartment parking lot, through the pouring rain, and picked me up under the overhang. Insane.

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

@OverridePremium @hurumdara2 Ranskan moottoritiellä saa ajaa 130 km/h vaunu perässä, on tullut kokeiltua, sekä Saab 9000 että Volvo S60:lla.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

When PayPal sold to eBay, Elon Musk got $160 million.

Most people would retire and live the rest of their life in luxury. Put it in an investment account and live off the interest. Not Elon.

He put $80 million into Tesla, an electric car company, and $80 million into SpaceX, a rocket company. It's hard to remember now, but both of these ideas sounded batshit insane and highly likely to fail 20 years ago.

Things weren't easy. At one point, both of the companies were at risk of dying. Elon was advised that he could probably put the money together to save one, but not both. He was told to focus on one business, and let the other go.

He mulled it over. Which one should he save, and which one should he let go? But ultimately he just couldn't decide. He said these two companies were like children to him. They were both so important, and he loved them both so much, that he couldn't let one die. He had to fight with everything he had to save them both.

Today both are multi-trillion dollar publicly traded companies. Both have had an utterly transformative impact on their respective industries. I can't imagine how difficult it was to go through that time, but thank god Elon couldn't choose a favorite child.

[Jaylene🐰 @playmatejaylene]

The first trillionaire in human history

- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders

Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible

Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion

Most people quit when the world laughs at them.

Elon Musk built the future instead.

Love him or hate him…

Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.

Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.

History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.

It will remember the people who did it anyway.

Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀

[NL F$D Inside @TSLA_inside_]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

First real-world test confirms that FSD (Supervised) is working in Belgium for Tesla owners coming from the Netherlands. 🇳🇱➡️🇧🇪

According to an owner who just tested it, FSD was not immediately available when crossing the border. The vehicle drove for approximately 1 km without FSD before the system synchronized and FSD became available again.

This suggests that Tesla vehicles may need a short period after entering Belgium before FSD activation is enabled.

A promising sign for cross-border FSD use in Europe and another step forward for Tesla’s rollout across the region.

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

- Netherlands
- Lithuania
- Estonia
- Denmark
- Belgium

https://t.co/aepKw5oNuM

[Tsla Chan @Tslachan]

$TSLA 🇧🇪
Here's what @AnnickDeRidder's take on Tesla FSD in a Gazette van Antwerpen article.

"This system (Tesla FSD) can contribute to road safety."

"FSD shows a defensive driving style and can respond faster and more consistently than human drivers in certain situations."

It's similar to what Lithuania's transport minister made. When anyone experiences Tesla's FSD, they mostly make similar statements.

Tesla's FSD is a true physical AI that understands the real world.

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

@wholemars @VoltaWagen Next step: 420 vehicles

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Major improvement in safety statistics with FSD turned on in the Netherlands!

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

- Netherlands
- Lithuania
- Estonia
- Denmark

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

FSD approved in Denmark

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

@Jamesmanny21 @_ianwatts_ @niccruzpatane Yes, typically robotaxi drives more that one mile per hour, but not so many miles per hour in the city on average. And on motorways there is increased wind resistance.

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

In the last 2 months, FSD Supervised has been over 3x safer than manual driving on Dutch roads

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

@KimmoMatikainen Voimavirtalatauksessa voi aivan sallitusti käyttää jatkojohtoa, vaikka 30 metriä.

[Esa Salonen @esasalonen]

@pbyrokraatti Pyöräteiden kohdilla olevat kolmiot voisi vaihtaa stop merkkeihin.