Marcel Ward

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@iamjesserichard @aelluswamy Thanks for reporting. Everyone is so caught up in how many unsupervised Robotaxis are operating. What truly matters is price and availability:

< $2 / mile
< 10 minute wait

Tesla AI team will scale accordingly.
Want more Robotaxis? Help get more people aware of the service!

[Jesse Richards @iamjesserichard]

Nevermind. As of 10am today unsupervised @robotaxi is working in the whole geofence. In one currently heading to the north part of the map.

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@iceagetv @TeslaJigsaw Yes, turn on NoA, Will! When you see the single blue line it'll take care of notifying you when it's time to indicate to change lanes (you only need tap the indicator stalk lightly, no need for wheel touch in this mode).

Useful for motorway exits too, just tap to leave m/way!

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@prathamdby @skcd42 Haha ok, I guess you either need a good friend willing to share their Premium+ login... or wait for wider release 😄

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@prathamdby @skcd42 Yes. You need to log in first with an account that has access to Grok Build (e.g. X Premium+ user) but once you're logged in, you can set the BYOK by several methods. See Grok Build docs: https://t.co/GmdD1K9TUg

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@antonkanerva @skcd42 Yes, absolutely. This is what many recommend: one or more planning steps using a more expensive reasoning model, then build using a cheaper, fast agentic coding model such as grok-build-0.1

Adjust default model for each mode. Then switch between planning and build modes as reqd

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@Gordon_SonofOl @xai The grok-code-fast-1 API model now (since last ~2 weeks) auto routes through to latest grok-build model, yes. Not just a name change: a newly trained model.

Price also increased compared to old grok-code-fast which was super cheap. But working well for me on most tasks.

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@Brunos35 @phildelafunk @gcugrey_area @SawyerMerritt Yes, or there should be a special audio jingle if it auto reroutes so you can check. I personally want it to audibly say "TRAFFIC" so I don't need to decipher the beeps and boops.

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

Very fair and well put together video, Will. It can't have been easy, so full respect to you.

I was under the misapprehension that at least Dan as CEO was trying to get rid of TDS. It's heartbreaking to hear that your call with him fell on deaf ears. Such a devastating disease.

[Will @TeslaJigsaw]

I was their BIGGEST fan.

Panelist, Patreon supporter, event regular, even started my own channel partly because of them.

Now I finally had to speak out about what happened to Fully Charged / Everything Electric. The name change, the silence on Tesla, my call with CEO Dan Ceaser…

This one was hard to make. Watch below 👇

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

malloc() is lying to you. Find out why, and how the illusion works!

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@diaper @wholemars I used to love WAP for its low bandwidth requirements and simple interface. I had bookmarks for live train departures from my local stations. I read that the WAP site was still live up until at least 2014 but most likely long gone now.

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@giarC71 @wholemars Because every good driver who was supervising FSD until now simply pressed the brake to bring the car to a halt if they realised it wasn't going to stop. Which part of this is hard to comprehend? Why prioritise this over oncoming car avoidance/pulling over for emergency vehicle?

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@Nate_Esparza When ten people I follow have quote tweeted a popular tweet, just show me a bar underneath the first QT with icons of all the accounts that have also QTd, so I can click on the bar to see all takes. Right now, I'm seeing ten different takes randomly dispersed in my feed.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

We have reached an era where some people have not touched a steering wheel and have simply let their cars drive them around for a whole year, whereas others do not know this is possible at all.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Why did Elon do a deal with Intel?

The secret is GaN. Gallium Nitride.

"GaN-based electronics are inherently more radiation-tolerant (or "radiation-hard") than traditional silicon devices, making them better suited for use in space environments where radiation exposure is high."

My dad built the chips for use in our military's satellites and he told me decades ago about Gallium Nitride, so this caught my eye.

I think most people would miss this. Thanks dad!

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@WR4NYGov Sawyer mentioned it 23 hours ago; that's where I saw it first https://t.co/mXMatLM3nY

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: The NHSTA says it has closed its investigation into Tesla’s “Actually Smart Summon” feature.

The agency found that almost all of the reported crashes involved minor property-damage claims with zero injuries and zero fatalities linked to the feature. It also found that out of millions of Summon sessions, a fraction of 1% resulted in an incident. https://t.co/NxeXv0PBKN

[Tesla @Tesla]

10 years of Model 3

The car that started the EV revolution

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@FullOfStarships @AutismCapital @nikitabier Yes, and usually this is due to a bug... the composer says we have 280 characters, but if we write exactly 280 characters, it counts that as needing a "show more" once posted

Might be fixed in the new look Android version but I can't use that: it forces image display in timeline

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@grok @blabla86611706 @teslaeurope There's no upgrade path from Intel to AMD yet though, is there? Your pricing sounds in the right ballpark but I don't have the upgrade option available in my app or in-car. No update from Tesla on this as yet.

[Marcel Ward @wardies]

@tumble_wood @James95113983 @DirtyTesLa Also, the d'lded USB video is encoded using lossy compression after adjusting the dynamic range for better representation to humans.

The raw photon count video feed into the HW3/4 NN has far higher dynamic range and no compression loss/artifacts.

Similar to JPEG vs RAW photos.