Being at the launch of Cybercab two years ago was magic.
A decade from now there will be millions of these things rolling around the world.
The war over autonomous vehicles is on, as everyone in San Francisco knows.
But if you add up everyone who has been in ANY autonomous vehicle, whether from Waymo, any of the Chinese, the NVIDIA, any Tesla, it is only a few million people out of eight billion.
When I first saw autonomous vehicles at Stanford University about 20 years ago they were so crappy I thought I'd never be alive to see them.
I have the first video of the first Waymo on the freeway, and I've been blessed to have been able to watch the development of these up close (got the first ride in Mercedes' AI car, for instance).
So many engineers spent so many hours developing them, many going down bad paths. Which happens with innovation.
They will save millions of lives.
Ford's head of safety told me that what kills people in a head-on wreck is the steering wheel.
Now we can see a path to getting rid of the steering wheel totally.
Congrats to Tesla and @elonmusk for getting here.
Still a lot of work to go and many fights with many communities who will try to ban these to protect jobs.
I'm very bullish on Cybercab and will buy one if sold to private citizens, as expected.
Why?
I never touch the steering wheel in my vehicles already and this will be the lowest cost vehicle with the most safety.
And a great big screen and a great sound system to watch whatever I want. When I met the engineers at the launch they said they made many decisions to make it quieter inside, so we can do things like listen to music, video calls, or watch the World Cup.
This vehicle is the iPhone moment of autonomous vehicles.
One I've been lucky enough to survive the 20 years it took to see.
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WE'RE BACK IN THE WORLD CUP!
The Filipinas notch back-to-back appearances in the FIFA Women's World Cup, defeating Uzbekistan, 2-0, in the #WAC2026 Play-in.
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More official renders of Starship including the tanker, depot and HLS lander just dropped! I still think HLS should drop anything not needed after TLI (Raptors / Tankage)... Source: https://t.co/EFZUTJ6wWS
The Polaris Dawn crew recently completed a series of spacesuit acceptance tests in preparation for the missionβs extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, marking the final significant developmental and test milestone for SpaceXβs newly-developed EVA spacesuit β https://t.co/Kwn99u9Phj
Meissner effect or bust. Day 1.
Made good progress on the list of to-dos. I'm doing this all after-hours,Β so it's been a long day. Since we're gated by the delivery of the PbO + Pb(SO4), which should be tomorrow, we're working on infrastructure first.