sydney 🧂

drop ur hot takes

[sydney 🧂 @sydneychime35]

Thank you Trump for visiting California. You see our basic needs.
Voter ID
Water
I feel seen
#I feel seen
#Trump sees me
#Trump saves California
#Trump supports me

[America @america]

President Trump: “I want Voter ID for the people of California, and I want the water to be released. And they'll get a lot of help from the U.S.”

[RON .D. WATKINS @Ron_WatkinsQ]

🚨 WOW. Nick Shirley just went on national television and dropped this revelation: The Chinese and Korean Mafia is LOOTING MEDICAID and running a kickback scheme in NYC

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: A swath of California hospice providers have FLED the motel complex where Nick Shirley personally stormed in and exposed

There were over a dozen there

That's an admission: THE WHOLE THING WAS FRAUDULENT!

No wonder Gavin Newsom and Bonta had to pass the Stop Nick Shirley Act. He's too effective! @nickshirleyy @Brookerteejones

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Tesla Model Y turns into a surprisingly comfortable campsite.

Rear seats fold nearly flat to create a ~76-inch sleeping platform in the huge trunk, so you can throw down a mattress and basically sleep with a mountain view right outside.

Camp Mode runs climate control quietly all night on battery power (typically 8–15% overnight in mild weather) with no engine noise or fumes.

USB ports stay live, and motion alerts stay off so you can actually sleep.

It feels more like a tiny cabin than a car. 🚗

Writer: Daniyal

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

This really is incredible.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

My first 1 million view video on YouTube!

https://t.co/rePojxjyZu

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk is giving MASSIVE congratulations to anti-mass migration pro-Germany AfD party after their landslide win in Saxony-Anhalt

"Well done!" — Elon to Alice Weidel 🔥

The Fake News has been calling AfD "FAR-RIGHT" all day, and Merz is panicked

Excepted being COMMON SENSE is not actually far-right, it's just wanting to protect your country!

Keep this momentum going all the way up to the national level 🇩🇪

[Commentary Trump Daily Posts @TrumpDailyPosts]

Cybercab could end road rage

[Maye Musk @mayemusk]

Cool 😎

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Texas Department of Transportation Executive Director after attending @Tesla’s Cybercab launch event:

“Throughout the event were a number of attendees who were blind, used wheelchairs, or otherwise faced mobility limitations. This captures an important quality of life benefit that AVs offer to those individuals who lack a level of independent mobility options and could be able to realize or retain more personal mobility in the future.

The car and the intelligence behind it is treated as an active safety device designed to react faster and more consistently than human perception allows. In covering this area, the engineers underscored their confidence in the vehicles camera systems as being fully sufficient for safe operations (i.e. no lidar).

The Cybercabs and Model Ys that are part of Tesla's Robotaxi fleet have been all over Austin the past few days. I would expect that to grow and expand.”

[Jade Warwick @TheJadeWarwick]

My first ride in a Cybercab !

[Rob Maurer @robmaurer]

Cybercab is absolutely magical. Tesla has actually done it. A domestically mass-produced affordable autonomous electric vehicle is available to the general public. A car with no steering wheel generating revenue.

It’s sad to come back to a city without Robotaxi after being in Austin. Like stepping back in time. The event was awesome. I know it was tough to follow online, but we all knew the story going in.

This was a launch, not an unveiling. It felt like the city transformed immediately. Cybercabs were everywhere, you couldn’t take a trip without seeing another one. Outside of the ride experience itself, the scale of this launch is what I want to make sure people understand.

On previous trips, Robotaxi felt like a test network (an amazing one). Not anymore. Suddenly it’s real. It’s hard not to laugh when you ride past a Waymo in a Cybercab. Good luck… As I’ve said before, Robotaxi is way smoother than Waymo. It feels natural. Supernatural, really. This holds true for Cybercab. Waymo feels like a computer. And it looks like one too.

The production Cybercab is beautiful. It really is special. The color, the lines, the lighting, the doors. It looks great. While also being the most efficient car in history? Insane. I think it fits perfectly in the space between familiarity and the future. It doesn’t stick out, but it catches your attention. After exiting our first ride, there was a large group of 10-20 people. They were all talking about the Cybercab as we walked by. These doors are like gasoline on a word of mouth wildfire.

Our rides were flawless. Better than a human driver. No anxious moments. Cybercab is very comfortable, even at 6’2. Leg room is particularly notable. It would be tough to find a car that has this much leg room for two passengers at the same time. No pedals, center console, or multiple rows of seating creates a lot of space and a very open feel.

Robotaxi is unquestionably one of those products that will be way cheaper and way better than what existed before. I like those. No one is going to want to roll the dice on some random person and their car when the alternative is a private, safe, comfortable, clean, consistent, quiet, personalized Tesla with tons of room and a massive screen. It’s a premium experience on every level, and we get it cheaper thanks to technology. No noise or air pollution, either.

I don’t have much to critique. Little refinements that I know will happen. Pick up and drop off were satisfactory, over time will become excellent. Grok integration is already impressive, and it’s clear that we’ll eventually be able to just give directions like “pull over around the corner up there.” You can already have Grok update your destination in Robotaxi, it pushes the update to the Robotaxi app on your phone for approval.

I leave the event with more confidence in Tesla’s ability to scale, but also renewed patience. I have a greater appreciation for the intentionality of limitations (service area, times, fleet size) rather than seeing them simply as barriers that have yet to be overcome. I now believe the objective is to build slowly, safely, to critical mass. A tail-risk event is inevitable. The absolute last thing we need is some bad luck on a tail-risk event at an early stage before enough data exists to prove its rarity. That data is accumulating quickly and will become undeniable soon enough.

Huge congrats to Tesla and Elon for this incredible milestone. Decades of work culminating in a life-saving, sustainable, affordable, economically exceptional product. It’s all pretty surreal, a testament to vision and determination. I love this company!

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Wheelchair user rides in Cybercab

Cybercab seats are built at standard wheelchair height, making ingress & egress easy

[Anthony Sanchez @Wheelchairpapii]

Using the @Tesla CyberCab as a paraplegic! 10/10!! @robotaxi #spinalcordinjury

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

A new $50 million @Tesla Megapack battery energy storage facility has started construction in Colorado.

50 MW/200 MWh system comprised of 50 Tesla Megapacks to serve the Black Hills Energy grid.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Wow, I’ve never seen a Tesla showroom so busy. So many people checking out the Cybercab, as well as many families getting in and out of the Model Y L.

This is at the Domain in Austin, TX.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

After spending 5 hours riding in the Cybercab, here is some feedback for the Tesla team/some features I would love to see in the vehicle:

• Manual air recirculation: At one point, I was stuck in traffic behind a large, smelly gas truck spewing fumes. It would be nice to have a manual air-recirculation button on the main screen for situations like this so the smell doesn't enter the cabin.

• Full-screen map/navigation: I’d love the option to expand the map and see the Cybercab’s full route/navigation on the big screen. The small map in the top-right corner is nice, but being able to expand that would be great.

• Windshield cleaning on command: Having the ability to clean the windshield on command would be great. There were a couple of times when the windshield was pretty dirty, but the car didn’t recognize it and clean it, so I was stuck looking through some dirt and debris. Not a huge deal, and I know a lot of input is considered error, but I think it would be a nice addition. Could just enable with through Grok voice.

• Destination editing from the main screen: Having the ability to edit our destination directly from the large screen instead of requiring the phone app.

• Adjustable bottom seat cushion: I think it would be useful to give riders the ability to raise the front of the bottom seat cushion for better leg and under-thigh support. This would be especially helpful for taller passengers and, when fully reclined, would kind of create an almost zero-gravity seating position. I know this is the least realistic feature request in this list, as it adds complexity and cost with the bench seat.

• Rear camera view: Add an option to bring up the rear-facing camera on the main screen so riders can see what’s behind the vehicle similar to what the Cybertruck has.

I had a hard time coming up with a list of things because the team did such a great job thinking through everything before launch haha, but I think these few things would meaningfully add to rider satisfaction. Congrats to the whole team on the launch, it really is a fantastic vehicle and experience! Can’t wait to show my 76-year-old Mom the Cybercab when I show her Giga Texas next month for the first time.

(Of course I had to stop at Terry Black’s while I was in town)

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Save a horse, ride a Robotaxi

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

This is day 249 of asking @LeaderJohnThune to pass the SAVE America Act.

[Jade Warwick @TheJadeWarwick]

A golden ride ! ⚜️
Took a cybercab in Austin today, so much leg and head room.
Extremely quiet too.
The best part? Women’s safety.
There’s zero potential for SA. Genius.