Happiness by the Kilowatt

Former #Tesla Service (Sr. Service Advisor / Remote Diag)… Working hard on my next adventure

[MLB @MLB]

Hang it in The Louvre

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@slye Was a @Tesla Service employee from 2014 to 2022, some of my biggest hurdles = simply convincing the customer there was no “catch”… we really do fix vehicles for the lowest possible “flat rate time” (we held races to see how fast repairs could be done), which became the new FRT’s

[Wei Wu 吴伟 @WuWei113]

Oh my god. My friend. Open your ear most wide. Japan yield go up very, very bad news. This piece of news mean we all soon go be only fan sIut sell picture of buthole for make money. Why? I explain

> Japan go through deflation for much long time, maybe since 1980s. This mean their price of goods keep go down. Why? Low birth rate.
>If everyone old, no one buy anything. If no one buy, price alway be low.
>Japanese government then say, “okay, we print much money try make price go up”.
>So Japan print much money, and also make interest rate be zero for long time.
> all venture capital and hedge fund borrow Japan money, use for buy America asset
> price for all asset in America go up
> now Japan say “okay nigga, no more cheap money. Pay high yield now”
> now all world hedge fund and private equity must sell asset for pay back borrowed Japan currency
> now all asset price crash. Company no money. Cannot raise capital, must fire people
> you and me must go on onlyfan sell buthole picture for not be starvation

Oh no.

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

Dear @RBC… what is the point to sending your customers this “promotion”… you’ve sent it to me twice, and it’s “SOLD OUT” both times… I literally clicked the link within 5 seconds of receiving the email

If you don’t have the tickets, don’t get my hopes up

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@TalkinBaseball_ Seems to be working out juuuussssst fine

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

Elon / Franz definitely watched Batman the Animated Series back in the day

#PoliceToasterVan #TeslaVan #Tesla #TeslaRoboTaxi #VirtuallyIdentical #Batman

[DR @Media371]

Crash with entrapment on Fifty Road at South Service Road in Stoney Creek on Wednesday night. One patient extricated by @HamiltonFireDep crews and transported to hospital by @HPS_Paramedics. #HamOnt

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

If this guy stands up and starts running on the water this will be the greatest Olympics of all time

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

I don’t post on social media much anymore… but this post is near & dear to my heart. Anything you can donate to this amazing cause would be greatly appreciated…

#MacKids #McMasterHospital #WalkAndWheel

https://t.co/ydMfuWI1VJ

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@JoshWest247 Sadly this is a daily occurrence… I was a Sr. Service Advisor at Oakville, and I’ve even assisted you @JoshWest247! (Which you were very easy going).

9 years at Tesla, but this was the main reason why I quit

Left to peruse a career as a firefighter (with my EV knowledge)

[Nathan Diaz @NateDiaz209]

Tyson fury lost and the boxing commentary biased af dumbasses they need to learn how to box ..

[Ariel Helwani @arielhelwani]

Bullshit.

Francis won that fight. I don’t care what anyone says.

People’s champ. All hail.

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

😏👌🏼 #TSLA

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Crazy stat: Here's how an employee's stock in Tesla, Ford, and GM has performed over the past 10 years, assuming they received it and held onto it during that whole time.

• Tesla +1,909%
• GM: -10%
• Ford: -28%

A Ford or GM employee that received company stock 10 years ago would have made no money on it if they still held it today.

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

**cough, cough**… you mean the exact way Tesla does it? Better workers get better pay & bonuses

(I always said working for Tesla was like playing on a sports team. Prove yourself, and you’ll be rewarded… no “free” raises)

[Taylor Robinette @twrobinette]

CEO pay is complicated. While I agree some pay packages are obscenely high, they are almost always tied to company performance and made up primarily of stock compensation.

The UAW is barking up the wrong tree asking for 40% increase in pay for less work. They should be negotiating performance-based compensation for their workers. Want high compensation? Set audacious goals and tie the overall comp to it with stock grants being a key component.

The UAW won’t do that though since it’s harder to take dues out of stock compensation 🙃

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@MrTeslaTom @Tesla THE DRINKS MACHINE! I was at Tesla from May 2014 to Sept 2022, and me and my past/present colleagues from that time still talk about it

I agree with some much of this thread… Tesla was so fun to work for, and then the fun died, an there was no longer an ability to be personable

[Christopher Dungeon @ChrisDungeon]

My Audi S4 costs $0.25 per mile to operate when you include gas and oil changes.

My $TSLA Model S Plaid & Model Y Performance cost about $0.05 per mile to operate with at-home charging.

A difference of $20,000 in operating costs when driving these cars to 100,000 miles.

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

I don’t think anyone could have written a more accurate #Tesla FSD evaluation… this is bang-on…

[Hamid @hamids]

I've been using FSD in my Tesla Model X for nearly a year. Here's the Good, the Bad and the Ugly on @Tesla's FSD...

The Good:
- FSD is bar far, the most advanced driving technology I've ever experienced in any vehicle.

- I use it every day, on every drive. Why? Because it reduces my driving work substantially. It keeps the car centered in the lane, keeps an appropriate following distance, stops for red lights and stop signs, turns where I need to turn and handles 99% of my driving tasks.

- I think driving with FSD is FAR safer than driving without it because it reduces the "dumb" mistakes that drivers make that cause accidents. Mistakes like being distracted and missing the fact that the light is turning red or that the car in front of you just hit the breaks, or swerving out of your lane, or forgetting an exit or a turn and trying to make a heroic move to stay on course. All of these things are handled by FSD with grace and it likely is saving countless accidents.

- Long drives and road trips are a pleasure with FSD because you are not fatigued with the many thousands of micro driving tasks, such as keeping the car centered in the lane or even worrying about where you're going. The car does all of that for you (and Navigate on Autopilot also does 95% of this for road trips).

- When I use FSD, I have near-0 road rage, never speed up rapidly for no good reason and I am generally a more relaxed driver.

The Bad:
- Sometimes FSD has Schizophrenia, sees things that aren't there, slows for no reason, is indecisive on whether to go or stop which causes it to do extreme movements of the steering wheel, breaks and accelerator. In most of these circumstances, it's not unsafe, but as the driver sitting in the driver's seat, it is quite embarrassing, especially if you have passengers in the vehicle.

- There are times when FSD makes a truly unsafe mistake, misses a red light (super rare) and tries to go when it should clearly stop, or slams on the break because it thinks a car might cross paths when the car was clearly not going to. In all these instances, it's super easy to take over and correct FSD's mistake. I don't even think twice about it...I quickly take over, correct the mistake, and put it back on FSD.

The Ugly:
- FSD is nearly useless in parking lots. It is surprisingly bad, especially since @elonmusk introduced the "Summon" feature long before FSD was released publicly. He said "just like humans, the AI also needs to learn driving by starting in the parking lot." 5 Years later, Summon still sucks and FSD has no idea how to drive in a parking lot.

- Despite the many praises that a specific release often gets on Twitter, my personal experience has been that a new release could actually be worse than the previous version. For example, when my FSD upgraded from 10.69 to 11.3, it lost its ability to get in & out of HOV lanes on the freeway (I live in Scottsdale AZ). This simple loss of functionality (which returned with 11.4) caused numerous missed exits and route delays due to my over-reliance on FSD.

- FSD makes some incredibly bad choices that are unexplainable, like certain lane changes, or last-second preparation to try and make a turn from 3 lanes away. These mistakes get better and worse with each release...it's a mixed bag as to what you're going to get with an update.

- Your car's FSD never ever learns or improves by user input (not without an update). So it will make the exact same mistake in the exact same location, every, single, time. That can be super annoying.

Conclusion:
Despite the shortcomings, FSD is a technology marvel that I prefer not to live without. I don't see myself having a primary car that doesn't have Tesla-level FSD capabilities anytime in the future. Even the basic Autopilot features of Tesla are far superior to any other vehicle I've experienced. And despite what Elon says, the rate of improvement that I have experienced in the past year will not put it on a trajectory to be ready without a backup driver anytime in the next year or two. But with a backup driver, FSD is incredible, makes driving safer and I would highly recommend it to anyone!

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ron Baron on $TSLA: “We invested $380 million and we've made about $4 billion so far and we've cashed in about $1.5 billion; The stock is now $250. I think it's going to be $500 in 2025 and in 2030 it will be $1500."

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@todd_gleason @cybrtrkguy No worries… shoot me a message if you ever want a second opinion on any Tesla repairs

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@todd_gleason @cybrtrkguy If I could give all the Tesla Customers of the world advice, it would be to note date/times of issues related to anything requiring such, in addition to a good description… and to not hold off on booking the appointment, as data older than 10 days becomes harder to investigate

[Happiness by the Kilowatt @flightstar80]

@todd_gleason @cybrtrkguy I was a Tesla Service member for nine years, a Sr. Service Advisor for the last four, and for the last two years I did remote diag (so with the time stamp, I could even check the data and order a liftgate strut, or harness depending on what that data indicated)