Vi

Love Tesla & SpaceX. Owns Tesla Solar + PWs + Tesla Electric + 2 MY & M3 w/FSD. 1st principles thinker. Sharing insights. 🏌️‍♂️⛳️⚡️

[Vi @vigold]

Boom! Just hit by power outage/grid down in Texas! Seamless transition to Tesla Powerwalls!

Family feels safe…backup for next 24 hours!

Thanks @elonmusk @tesla $tsla @wholemars @SawyerMerritt

[Nick Donaldson @nickjdonaldson1]

Tesla FSD saved us from a potential bad crash tonight. Worth every penny.

FSD already avoided the crash before I could have reacted.

Our 2024 Model 3, running FSD 14.3.2.

Milliseconds matter.

Thank you @elonmusk @Tesla & @Tesla_AI

Watch video in landscape.

[Vi @vigold]

@elonmusk This needs to be a Public Safety announcement and ad to all of America and the world - right thing to do!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2.

This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok upgrades

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@DanFriedman81 💯

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

On page twenty-six of “The Billionaire Tax” proposal in California, it explains how the state legislature can convert from a Billionaire Tax to an Everyone Tax without voter approval.

They can also adjust the tax to be a yearly tax, not just one time…again, without your approval.

Intelligence test for you: if this was meant to just target Billionaires, why did they write this in?

[Vi @vigold]

Just now…FSD saving lives!

Main reason I keep buying $TSLA on dips. NFA 😃

@elonmusk @wholemars @herbertong @gailalfaratx
@JCChristopher @Tesla

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

Incremental FSD Take Rate now over 50%!

@herbertong @thejefflutz

[Vi @vigold]

Part 3: Return trip video

Easily rerouted destination via phone app to return to Tesla Dallas right before arriving at SMU.

@robotaxi navigated smoothly around for another 6 mile return trip

Found a Waybill Easter Egg on screen

Realized the wipers have NOT activated at all and it was not needed! @tesla solved this finicky issue for Robotaxi?

What happens when I push a steering wheel button?

Goodbye and until next time.

Amazing experience and super excited to see expansion!

[Vi @vigold]

Part 1:

Playing games in a driverless Robotaxi is here!

Successfully hailed a @Tesla @robotaxi in Dallas TX today for a 35 min 13 mile round trip ride for $12

Less than 50% price of Uber

Thanks to $TSLA and @elonmusk for saving lives and making our roads dramatically safer while providing limousine comfort

Short video here, full longer videos with narration in Part 2 and 3. Enjoy!

@gailalfaratx @wholemars @herbertong @JCChristopher @SawyerMerritt @TeslaBoomerMama @aelluswamy

[Vi @vigold]

Part 2 - 1st leg

Waited only 10 to 15 minutes at the @Tesla Dallas location midday

Been raining heavily and light all day

Arrived and picked me up in lot of service center

Super smooth overall … deceleration feels same as v14.3.1 but acceleration and turns feels 15% smoother and the suspension of these newer Ys feel even softer by 20% vs my 2026 MY on Ai4.

Notice the windshield wipers NEVER went on the entire round trip?! I only noticed after watching all videos.

Think wiper issues solved? 🤯

My MY would have wet and dry wipped nonstop the entire time - which it did afterwards!

[Vi @vigold]

Can confirm Robotaxi is here in Dallas! Exciting times ahead!

Was in area…waited 10 minutes but no car available. Will try again when I have more time.

Please get more cars running! Thanks!

@wholemars @SawyerMerritt @robotaxi @elonmusk
@gailalfaratx

[Vi @vigold]

190 miles 98% on FSD

0 interventions

Smooth and safe

100 safety score

Proactively avoiding dangers with superhuman speed by changing lanes

This tech will save many more lives

[Vi @vigold]

FSD v14.3.1 incoming!

Will test and share insights!

Going much wider release

[Vi @vigold]

@heyitsyashu Yes! Great idea…hard to know who to trust. We trust you! 👍

[JC Christopher @JCChristopher]

I went to the exact same location of the Cybertruck accident shown in the Fox News video. This is the US-69/59 Eastex Freeway northbound HOV lane at the Y-split near the Eastex Park & Ride exit (approaching from downtown Houston toward Humble). In the Fox News video, the vehicle failed to follow the right curve, going straight into the barrier.

Well, I tested it twice today with Tesla FSD engaged the entire time with zero human intervention. And unless you think I am a hologram speaking to you from another dimension now, it worked out really well. Here is the video of me taking the exact same curve twice, with Tesla FSD v14.2.2.5.

[Michel de Guilhermier @mitchdeg]

What a shock for the Tesla haters: Auto Plus, the car magazine with the biggest audience in France (by far), awards the reliability crown to Tesla in 2026!

[Jack Brandt @JJackBrandt]

https://t.co/0eN8pCqfKU

[Vi @vigold]

Great framework and insights on real overall growth. 👍

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

Tesla - Energy Growth in Terms even Wall Street can Understand - Q4 2025

As we all know Wall Street still prefers to view Tesla as a car company.

Fine, let's meet then where they are. Based on that the trailing 12-month deliveries were 1,636,129 - Wall Street understands this.

On a trailing 12-month basis, Tesla hasn't produced any growth in the auto business since Q4 2023 and Wall Street see expensive therapists to cope with it.

But let's now share with them that Tesla has been building a new "vehicle" - a big beautiful boxy vehicle that's designed to be parked - and it consumes many more batteries than the usual S3XY models + Cybertruck lineup.

Since this new vehicle consumes so many batteries, we will express the number in 75 KWh vehicle equivalents - as a way to standardize things and track its growth versus Autos.

Here's the growth in that business...

Wow - now, that's a business Wall Street can get excited about - sales of another 622,667 "vehicles" - and look at that growth --> 48% year-over-year!

And now when we combine the two businesses we get the following chart...

This is the combination of reported deliveries in Autos plus the number of 75 KWh vehicle equivalents in our new boxy vehicle business.

We can see that the combination has delivered a total of 2,258,796 "vehicles" and it's up 2% over the last year and up 12% over the last two years.

Also, Tesla has been expanding the capacity of this new business to at least 1.2 million 75 KWh vehicle equivalents - a 2x increase over the last 12-month deliveries - so the outlook is quite positive.

And finally, here's another plus - no advertising is needed to sell these big beautiful boxy vehicles. They just sit there and sell themselves!

In case you didn't know, these big beautiful boxy vehicles are called Megapacks (and soon Megablocks), but please don't tell Wall Street.