Ryan Hoffman

💙 Father, Husband 🏢 Software Architect 👨‍💻 I code! Getting a Tesla?

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

TLDR: if you have a family history of cancer- do genetic testing. Maybe do it even if you don’t.

I was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation known as #CDH1. In men, it’s likely to cause stomach cancer.

In January, doctors at @MSKCancerCenter found cancer in my stomach. (1/n)

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

Who remembers how crisp @stripe looked in 2017?

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

The old @Spotify icon is back, rejoice!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

What a historically bad take from @ConsumerReports - Tesla Full Self Driving (Supervised) is safer than manual driving! Also FSD is not a lane centering system - it’s way more!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

@ibuildthecloud @ngriffin_uk This is valid. I didn’t learn that I had to enable it for other providers until I saw this thread. I use OC a lot too. I saw it searching sometimes, but alas that must have only when using OC provider, and I use other providers as well, so the defaults were confusing to me.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

Thanks @Tesla for replacing my tire! Totally a smooth experience. Kudos to the tech for their fast service!

Tesla Wheel and Tire Protection Plan for the win!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

This is what a tire replacement costs on my Model 3 with the Tesla Tire Protection Plan. Smooth experience so far. Highly recommended.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

This is what a tire replacement costs on my Model 3 with the Tesla Tire Protection Plan. Smooth experience so far. Highly recommended.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

This is what a slow tire leak looks like (red line) from the data on my Model 3. I think it’s cool that the data from all tires matches up cleanly, then starts to diverge.

Service appointment scheduled and I have the Tesla Tire Protection Plan on this car 👍.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

@OwenSparks So cool, I didn’t know you could do this!

I would just tap on the data and it would bring up the screen with all the trips in the Energy app.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

This is what a slow tire leak looks like (red line) from the data on my Model 3. I think it’s cool that the data from all tires matches up cleanly, then starts to diverge.

Service appointment scheduled and I have the Tesla Tire Protection Plan on this car 👍.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

Excited to share that the update for my water bottle has completed 😂

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

My water bottle just got a software update

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

My vacuum cleaner just got a software update

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

@tommolog @BMW I had a 2019 i3 REx! It was a great car! The lease payment was so low because no one was buying them 👌. This was the car that convinced my family that we could go all electric!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

@mvanhorn @ppressdev I built a skill based on browser automation for Instacart automation. No private apis.

Used it to cross check Costco vs Grocery Store for best prices.

The agent could check if the shopper wrote anything and respond to the shopper.

The future is going to be wild.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

@wmorrill3 I know @Tesla safety first hand, it saved my life. These changes are a huge deal and make things even safer. No other company would add features to their vehicle safety systems via OTA, it’s truly a world’s first here. Thanks for sharing and thanks for everything you do!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

My 2023 Tesla Model 3 saved my life. An oncoming driver made a left turn into the car, causing a full frontal head on collision. The car even called 911 for us, which lead to first responders arriving quickly to the scene. Thank you @Tesla & @elonmusk for building a safe car.

[Tesla @Tesla]

Tesla Vision allows us to deploy airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier if your Tesla detects an unavoidable collision

This can be the difference between serious injury & walking away from a crash

[Tesla @Tesla]

https://t.co/FrWpKzTkjj

[Tesla AI @Tesla_AI]

New release of FSD Supervised now starting to roll out

This update brings 20% faster reaction time to further increase safety, among many other improvements

Full release notes below
Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3 includes
- Upgraded the Reinforcement Learning (RL) stage of training the FSD neural network, resulting in improvements in a wide variety of driving scenarios.

- Upgraded the neural network vision encoder, improving understanding in rare and low-visibility scenarios, strengthening 3D geometry understanding, and expanding traffic sign understanding.

- Rewrote the AI compiler and runtime from the ground up with MLIR, resulting in 20% faster reaction time and improving model iteration speed.

- Mitigated unnecessary lane biasing and minor tailgating behaviors.

- Increased decisiveness of parking spot selection and maneuvering.

- Improved parking location pin prediction, now shown on a map with a (P) icon.

- Enhanced response to emergency vehicles, school buses, right-of-way violators, and other rare vehicles.

- Improved handling of small animals by focusing RL training on harder examples and adding rewards for better proactive safety.

- Improved traffic light handling at complex intersections with compound lights, curved roads, and yellow light stopping – driven by training on hard RL examples sourced from the Tesla fleet.

- Improved handling for rare and unusual objects extending, hanging, or leaning into the vehicle path by sourcing infrequent events from the fleet.

- Improved handling of temporary system degradations by maintaining control and automatically recovering without driver intervention, reducing unnecessary disengagements.

Upcoming Improvements
- Expand reasoning to all behaviors beyond destination handling.

- Add pothole avoidance.

- Improve driver monitoring system sensitivity with better eye gaze tracking, eye wear handling, and higher accuracy in variable lighting conditions.

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

💡 Here’s a Tesla app idea: let me type or paste from my phone to the car screen. Would be ideal for entering passwords in the web browser!

[Ryan Hoffman @tekmaven]

💡 Here’s a Tesla app idea: let me type or paste from my phone to the car screen. Would be ideal for entering passwords in the web browser!

[Blake Niemyjski @blaken]

https://t.co/Ltznplh5dC

[Long Zheng @longzheng]

Can’t unsee the steering wheel appears on the wrong side in the rear Tesla screen in Australia @AlexGuichet @Tesla