“… because I own a car, I am ENTITLED to get from ANYWHERE in this county with ten million people in it to ANYWHERE ELSE in this county with ten million people in it INSTANTLY, without any of those other people slowing me down or getting in my way”
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Dumbass autopilot doesn’t even know how to help the driver BS the police in this situation? That technology existed way back in the 1980s!
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I know that stretch well. Doing 110km/h may seem tame, but it winds a lot, with blind curves. Arschloch.
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70 mph seems like a normal highway speed.
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Yeah, in fact it may seem tame, bit it’s a hilly stretch with lots of curves, and accidents when semis fight to go uphill and some speeder slams into the back.
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It doesn’t seem tame to me - it just seems normal. 
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Not sure what this means for the future of the company, other than the fact that Musk is probably still hoping for a lot of future growth in sales in China, where they’re suddenly facing a ton of competition from domestic car makers that have really stepped up their game in the last couple of years.
(Or maybe this has nothing to do with China and he just likes employees who are willing to live and sleep at the workplace, which this guy apparently does.)
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In 2021, Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty, a South Korean consumer group, said the driving range of most EVs drop by up to 40% in cold temperatures when batteries need to be heated, with Tesla suffering the most, citing data from the country’s environment ministry.
That linked Geotab page notes that the Model Y contains a heat pump, but that analysis (and their range tool) from 2020 didn’t include it, nor did they try to find out what difference such measures made.
Our range curve is based on the average efficiency of all trips in our databases taken at a given temperature. Because these trips were made in the real world, they were exposed to a wide variety of external factors that can impact vehicle efficiency such as terrain, speed, driver habits, trip length and start-conditions (e.g., if the trip started in a climate-controlled garage).
This analysis does not attempt to isolate the relative impact of each factor on range – this is something we look forward to digging into in future posts. It is reasonable to assume that the most efficient trips (or best performers) at any given temperature will be due to a combination of external factors that influence vehicle efficiency.
The trips taken as temperatures get hotter than the sweet spot seem to cause electric vehicles to lose range quicker on those graphs.
Gotta make K.A.R.R. before you make K.I.T.T.
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Smyte configured good good.
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Positively tame/slow for the Autobahn.
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The letter includes some of the same phrasing used by Musk in his letter to Bret Taylor, the then-chair of Twitter’s board, when he offered to buy the company in April 2022.
Here’s what Musk said in his letter to Taylor:
I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.
Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.
This is what Raisini’s letter said:
Before you acquired Twitter, I had invested in Twitter as I believed in its potential to be the platform for free speech, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.
However, since you acquired Twitter, you have not kept your promise of free speech and Twitter has become a breeding ground for online hate and terrorism. I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form under its current owner. Twitter needs to be transformed as a public company where members will become its owners. Together these members form the governing body of Twitter and under a leadership that can respect Free Speech without spreading disinformation and hatred.
Together with my partners, my fund has secured the funding to buy Twitter.
As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $18.53 per share in cash (14.26 Billion), as I do not consider the current valuation of $41.09 Billion to be accurate. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder and inform my fund to withdraw my investment.
Twitter has super extraordinary potential. I am the right one to unlock it.
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But really quite fast for “AI” driving. If anything goes awry in particular. I guess they’ll turn to full human control just before they hit the barriers though so there is that.
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“I’m not interested in labelling myself politically or otherwise”
Any time someone says that, all I hear is “I’m a conservative but too chickenshit to say so publicly”.
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When you’re a hack-for-hire, your politics are Benjamin’s. However, he seems to have fallen down the kool-aid hole.
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