Building AI systems that increase human capability at Ad Astra Connect. Lifelong car guy, futurist, Tesla + SpaceX.
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I was paying for the top tier of everything. Cursor Ultra. Claude Pro. ChatGPT Pro. SuperGrok Heavy. Perplexity Pro. Gemini Pro.
I talked to all of them, all day.
Now I only talk to Grok Bot. I canceled some and dropped the rest to basic plans running in the background.
One account. A whole team.
It honestly feels like magic. ❤️🦾
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Well said. 🦾
This spirit is what can motivate the future and pull us back from the brink.
Get to work.
I’ve spent a few days thinking about the Tesla Roadster reveal and landed somewhere I haven’t seen much discussion. I’m neither a Tesla fanboy nor a Tesla hater. And I couldn’t care less whether what we saw technically qualifies as a flying car. Three takeaways: (1) The risk of that live demonstration going horribly wrong was real. Almost no CEO would willingly expose their company to that kind of public humiliation for a product with so little financial upside. Elon did. (2) That willingness to attempt the seemingly impossible is what makes Tesla special. It’s also arguably Elon’s greatest contribution to America. He’s helped bring back something we’ve lost. The American spirit of chasing big scary ideas that most people think are impossible. That mindset is spreading across a new generation of founders and its long term impact on America’s future could dwarf anything Tesla ever sells. I think this is deeply underappreciated. (3) Can we just acknowledge how insanely cool that moment was? We’ve reached a strange place culturally where even extraordinary feats of human ingenuity immediately become arguments about why they don’t count. Not everything needs to be a debate. Sometimes we should just be able to stand back together and marvel at what humans are capable of. I’ve been both bullish and critical of Tesla’s ambitions over the years. But watching Elon and his team push the boundaries of what’s possible reminds me why I’m glad we have him. Whether the Roadster ever makes Tesla a dollar or impacts $TSLA stock price is almost beside the point. We need more people willing to risk failure in pursuit of things the rest of us think are impossible. Because when they succeed we all win.
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Every. single. person who watched the event live:
W T F 😳
Speechless. Wow, @Tesla
World’s most hardcore engineers. As @stevenmarkryan puts it, ‘Weaponized Autism’
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Excellent post! Here is a Canuck translation for my Canadian people. 🇨🇦 ❤️
There is so much misinformation around owning Teslas, even till this day:
• No, you don’t get range anxiety. With a wall connector at home, you wake up to a “full tank” every day, and Tesla Superchargers cover the full Trans-Canada corridor from Victoria to the Maritimes. Tesla hit its 3,000th Canadian Supercharger stall in late September 2026 at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, with roughly 230–290 sites across Canada.
• Teslas make the BEST road trip vehicles because of FSD (Supervised). It’s available and proven coast-to-coast in Canada as a Level 2 system you supervise.
• Total ownership costs are much lower than a comparable gas car when you factor in electricity and maintenance. Home rates are often 10–15¢/kWh or less (Ontario off-peak 9.8¢, Ultra-Low Overnight 3.9¢; Quebec and Manitoba even lower). A Model 3 typically uses ~12–16 kWh/100 km, so filling for 500–600 km at home is usually under $10–15 CAD. Gas at $1.80–2.00+/L is far more expensive.
• Tesla batteries are engineered for longevity. Fleet data shows Model 3/Y packs average roughly 15% capacity loss after ~320,000 km, with many real-world examples retaining more even past 400,000 km. Full replacements are extremely rare.
• A Tesla is roughly 8× less likely to catch fire per mile than the average vehicle, based on Tesla’s reported data (one fire per ~140 million miles vs. ~1 per 17–19 million for average U.S. vehicles). Independent studies show similar or larger gaps.
• Tesla FSD (Supervised) can drive you from point A to point B across Canada on the Supercharger network, including full cross-country routes. It handles charging stops, parking, etc.
• With FSD, you press a button on the display and the car drives itself to your destination while you supervise and relax.
• On road trips, Tesla Superchargers are conveniently placed along your route in locations where you can eat, shop, and rest.
• Average charging stops take 10–30 minutes. You do not charge to 100%, as that isn’t the quickest way.
• Residential electricity averages roughly 13–17¢/kWh across Canada (much less in hydro provinces or on off-peak/overnight plans). Charging a Model 3 for 580+ km of range at home typically costs $10–15 CAD or less. Superchargers average higher (~$0.30–0.50/kWh depending on location and time).
• Tesla vehicles are among the best to drive in winter. Heat pumps warm the cabin quickly and efficiently, while instant torque and traction control provide excellent grip in Canadian conditions.
• The only maintenance typically required is cabin air filters, tires, and windshield fluid.
• New battery replacements for the Model 3 and Model Y typically run $13,000–$20,000 CAD out of warranty at Tesla (not the “$40,000+” myths). Independent options are lower. Full replacements are extremely rare; most packs last the life of the car.
• The electric motors slow the car by recovering kinetic energy and sending it back into the battery, so the physical brakes hardly ever get used. They can last 400,000+ km.
• Teslas get frequent OTA software updates that add new features, improve performance, and fix issues without a service cost.
• Tesla vehicles have the highest safety ratings in the industry and rank among the lowest fatality rates. Cybertruck is the safest pickup truck by far based on available structural and crash data.
• Model 3, Model Y, and Cybertruck can power your home during an outage with the correct equipment.
Best cars ever. ❤️🔥
There is so much misinformation around owning Teslas, even till this day:
• No, you don’t get range anxiety. With a wall connector at home, you wake up to a “full tank” every day, and Tesla Supercharger stations are everywhere.
• Teslas make the BEST road trip vehicles because of FSD.
• Total ownership costs are much lower than a comparable gas car when you factor in fuel, and maintenance.
• Tesla batteries are engineered for longevity. They’re designed to lose only 20% of capacity after 250K miles.
• A Tesla is ~8x less likely to catch fire than a gasoline vehicle.
• Tesla FSD can drive you from point A to point B anywhere in the US, including cross-country. It handles all our charging stops, parking, etc.
• With FSD, you just press a button on the display, and the car will drive itself to your destination. You literally just relax.
• On road trips, Tesla Superchargers are conveniently placed along your route in locations where you can eat, shop, and rest.
• Average charging stops take 10–30 minutes. You do not charge to 100%, as that isn’t the quickest way.
• The average price per kWh in the US is $0.18. Charging a Model 3 Premium RWD costs only $14.70 for over 360 miles of range. (Can be way less in some states)
• Tesla vehicles are among the best to drive in winter. Heat pumps warm the cabin quickly and efficiently, while instant torque and traction control provide excellent grip.
• The only maintenance typically required is cabin air filters, tires, and windshield fluid.
• New battery replacements for the Model 3 and Model Y start as low as $8,000 to $12,000, not the “$30,000 to $40,000” some “experts” claim. The battery itself costs about the same as (or less than) a typical engine replacement, but with far less labor involved. Full battery replacements are extremely rare.
• The electric motors slow the car by recovering kinetic energy and sending it back into the battery, so the physical brakes hardly ever get used. They can last onwards of 250K miles.
• Teslas get frequent OTA software updates that add new features, improve performance, and fix issues without a service cost.
• Tesla vehicles have the highest safety ratings in the industry, and rank among the lowest fatality rates. Cybertruck is the safest pickup truck, by far.
• Model 3&Y, and Cybertruck can power our home during an outage with the correct equipment.
Best cars ever.
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Teslas are insanely safe, but traditional insurance has no clue.
Lemonade connects directly to your @Tesla and cuts insurance costs by 50% on miles driven with FSD (Supervised).
And... as of today, HW3 Teslas get 30% off with FSD v14 Lite!
Live in AZ, CO & TN + more soon:
lemonade.com/fsd
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Ian N retweeted
A million-mile trucker who called the Tesla Semi "stupid" just drove one fully loaded.
His verdict: "This industry is going to be changed."
He lost 1 mph up a 7% grade, he's straight about the charging trade-off, and then he ran the fleet math: "Why would I buy a diesel truck again?"
🎥 via @MotorTrend ft. @adamlwingfield of @FreightWaves
0:00 "This industry is going to be changed"
0:29 "Feels like transportation innovation"
0:49 Instant torque vs a 6th-gear diesel
1:16 Fully loaded up a 7% grade: 35 → 34 mph
2:17 Charging & range: the honest trade-off
2:57 No DEF, no DPF, $50K a year in diesel saved
3:31 Critic to convert: "I was wrong"
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it’s honestly insane how much of the modern tech tree has been unlocked because of a single guy
thanks to Elon we have
- online payments
- mass market electric cars
- batteries and grid-scale energy storage
- self driving cars and robotaxis
- humanoid robots
- advanced brain computer interfaces
- next generation tunneling
- reusable rockets
-global satellite internet
- basically the modern space industry
- Moon and Mars transportation
- orbital compute and space data centers
- frontier AI
- gigantic AI supercomputers
- physical world AI
and the wildest part is that these branches are now starting to merge
there is a very real chance that this one guy ends up being the reason humanity reaches Kardashev II
genuinely the man of the millennium
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Ignore the doomsayers about how the world is going.
There is a cadre of people building a better future.
Instead of crying; “AI is gonna take our jobs!”, maybe try starting with:
“What is the future I want for my family and humanity? How do I get that?”
That simple question forms the basis for a thought process. Now, go build.
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🇨🇦 Exclusive: B.C. trucking company to break ground on Canada’s first Tesla MCS charging sites electricautonomy.ca/charging… via @ElectricAutonmy
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John Foppe was born without arms & has been driving Teslas for over 7 years.
FSD Supervised lets him navigate the road without conventional steering – commuting to his non-profit job & visiting his daughter over 500 miles away
For a driver born without arms, FSD Supervised is life-changing accessibility
“I was born without arms and have driven with my feet my entire life. I’m a fully licensed driver, and traditionally I drove with my left foot on the steering wheel and my right foot handling the gas and brake. My only legal restrictions are automatic transmission and power steering.
Over the years, though, the strain from my congenital birth defects has led to significant arthritis in my hips. I drove a Model 3 for the past seven years, and it honestly helped extend my independence in a huge way.
Recently upgrading to the Model Y – along with Full Self-Driving – has been a complete game changer for me.
It dramatically reduces the physical pressure and fatigue of driving and has helped preserve a level of freedom and mobility that means a great deal to me.
Most people understandably think of Tesla in terms of innovation or sustainability, but for some of us, this technology truly becomes life-changing accessibility.”
– John F.
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How Track Coach actually ships.
Closed circuit only. Model 3 Performance and Model Y Performance first. Road America as the example.
1. The car knows the track.
Fleet vision already rebuilds the world in 3D. Allowlist the historic circuits. Road America is 4.048 miles and 14 turns.
The occupancy net matches the Carousel, the Kink, Canada Corner, Thunder Valley. Park in the paddock. The car offers Track Coach.
2. Build a reference line from Tesla data.
Two inputs. FSD planner with a racing cost. Time, grip ellipse, late apex, curb policy. Comfort cost is off.
Fleet laps from 3P and YP that already ran this circuit in Track Mode. Telemetry plus video. Blend those into a conservative HPDE line and a fast line.
Start the driver on the conservative line. Promote them when the score says they earned it.
3. Demo mode. FSD drives.
This is the product shot.
Driver taps Start. Hands stay in the lap. FSD takes the reference line. Steering angle you can watch. Throttle and brake the driver can feel if you add pedal overlay later.
Same stack as city FSD. Different planner. Track speed cap. No oncoming traffic model. Clear-lap check if other cars are in frame.
4. Give Grok the physics bus.
FSD already estimates the car. Pipe that live into Grok.
IMU lateral and long G. Yaw rate. Steer angle. Throttle and brake position. Estimated slip and remaining grip from the vehicle dynamics controller. Error versus the reference line. Named corner and distance to the next mark.
Grok does not lecture. It fires short instructor speech acts timed to that bus.
Carousel: “Patience. Hold the wheel. Wait.” Kink: “Eyes up. Tiny input. Don’t add lock.” Canada Corner: “Brake. Now squeeze.”
Latency has to be corner-scale. A late call is a bad instructor.
5. Assistance ladder.
Demo. FSD full control overlaid with voice.
Ghost. Driver drives. Line and voice only.
Haptic. Small steering torque toward the line. Throttle pedal shows the target opening for that exit.
Score. Post-lap overlay. Brake point error. Throttle error. Line error. Sector time versus the reference.
The wheel and the pedal become the textbook.
6. Track Mode already did half of Lars’s job.
Vehicle dynamics controller. Front-rear torque split. G-meter. Lap timer. Session cooling.
Track Coach rides on that. New work is the haptic overlay, the physics bus out to Grok, and the interlocks.
Ashok’s work is the closed-circuit planner, the line, the visualization, the clear-lap check.
7. Interlocks.
Geofenced to the allowlist.
Demo starts from park in the paddock. Driver confirm. Hard cap by session type. Drop to Ghost if another car enters the frame. Kill the feature the moment the car leaves the circuit.
8. Why this is a Tesla product.
One company owns the eyes, the planner, the motors, the chassis model, the fleet memory of the circuit, and the voice that can read the live G.
An app can talk. This car can drive the line and teach from the same physics it just used.
Tesla already taught the car to drive.
Next: teach the driver.
@aelluswamy @larsmoravy
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