Elon Musk explains the real constraint on scaling Tesla Robotaxi:
“Our goals for Robotaxi are very ambitious, but we need to be extremely cautious about causing an accident or harming anyone
There are roughly 30,000 to 40,000 automotive deaths every year in the United States, and most of them receive almost no press coverage
But if Tesla injures even one person, it becomes worldwide headline news, and regulators could immediately clamp down on our operations
We do not want to injure anyone
We are scaling Robotaxi as fast as humanly possible while trying to ensure that we cause no harm at all and ideally do not even run over a pet
That is the constraint: grow Robotaxi as quickly as possible without harming anyone”
🚨 Elon Musk on DOGE:
"I think the goal of DOGE was to try to do something about the deficit, which is massive, where the interest payments exceed the amount of money spent on the Department of War. Like basically, if you add up all the money spent on on what is now the Department of War and the and intelligence in the US, that is smaller than the interest payments on the debt.
So we need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack from this for this, obviously. But the people don't understand just how simple it was for the DOGE team to approve payments.
If we literally we were just asked to have the contact information of the recipients or some evidence that say money was going to its intended purpose. But over and over that we were told we need to wire money for some sort of important cause in Africa. And we're like, OK, but the wiring wiring instructions are to Deloitte and Touche in D.C., in Washington, D.C., not to Africa. So we would like to send the money to Africa. Can you please connect us with the recipients so we can send them the money directly? And then we get silence."
ELON MUSK: “My political views are very centrist. They’re not far right. Frankly, calling them far right is an insult to history and an insult to many people. It is an outrageous falsehood. It’s completely absurd. I have literally stated my position, and I’ve been very clear about this: there need to be secure borders.
If there’s an influx of immigrants, then they need to be people who agree with Western ideals and Western values. If there is long-term growth of people who do not, or in some cases are adamantly opposed to Western values, you are setting yourself up for civil war. This is obvious. A child can see this, but this is not a right wing view. I'm simply stating reality.”
ELON MUSK: "Zero people died because of DOGE"
“USAID was a political organization. USAID funding was not stopped; it was moved to the State Department. There were claims that healthcare programs were shut down, but these claims are false. When funding is stopped for fraudulent organizations, do you think they’re going to say, ‘Please keep funding the fraud,’ or come up with a sympathetic story to get the funding restored? Obviously, it will be the latter. The amount of funding we’re talking about is far less than what could be supported by private foundations like the Gates Foundation or MacKenzie Bezos’s foundation. They have tens of billions of dollars and are capable of acting very quickly. If they didn’t, I would say they’re equally responsible. Zero people died because of DOGE. Zero.”
Residents of Piddington, a small English village of just 370 people, are pushing for a symbolic referendum on independence from the United Kingdom after the Labour government announced plans to house up to 1,250 male asylum seekers at a military base beside the community.
The proposed center at Bicester Garrison in Oxfordshire could hold more than three times Piddington’s population and may begin operating by the end of 2026. Residents say they were informed only after the plan was already largely decided and fear the impact on local security, infrastructure, and public services.
On July 4th, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of American independence, villagers held a preliminary vote on whether to organize an independence referendum. Of those who voted, 96% backed the proposal, with 175 votes in favor and seven against.
Bicester is one of three military sites selected to accommodate around 3,750 asylum seekers. The others are RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire and RAF Barnham in Suffolk, where residents have also protested.
The government also plans to expand existing centers at Wethersfield in Essex and Crowborough in Sussex, adding space for another 1,750 people as it seeks to reduce the use of asylum hotels before the end of the parliamentary term.
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