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The BlueCruise “hands-free” driving subscription is coming to an end for my Ford F-150 Lightning.
Ford is giving me the option to continue using the service for $495 per year.
For those who haven’t tried it, it’s not worth $495 per year. If it was free, I’d consider continuing the service.
Here's how far $100 will take you in America's best-selling cars. Yet only two cars on this list will actually take you there at a push of a button (no driving required, only supervision). And they happen to be the two that are cheapest to fuel.
Only Tesla lets you have your cake and eat it too.
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Tesla is the only AV operator that can take riders to and from the F1 race in Austin, Texas this weekend. It’s important to understand why.
Tesla has long highlighted the advantages of its approach: an end-to-end neural network, no HD maps, and camera-only vision.
This weekend, Tesla Robotaxi expanded the geofence for the race. It could do so quickly because, unlike other AV operators, it doesn’t need to HD-map an area before driving there safely.
It adapts on the fly and validates areas with minimal effort.
Congrats to the Robotaxi team for doing what no other company could.
Red is Tesla; blue is Waymo for reference.
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Ever wondered why the Mac's ⌘ key looks like that? 🤔⌨️
👀 Early Mac menus showed a tiny 🍎 logo next to every shortcut
😤 Steve Jobs saw it and said "There are too many Apples on the screen!"
⏳ The team had only a few days to replace it
📖 Designer Susan Kare flipped through a book of international symbols
🇸🇪 She found ⌘, a sign used in Sweden to mark a place worth visiting
🎨 She drew it as a tiny 16×16 pixel icon
💻 And it's been on Mac keyboards ever since ✨
Did you know this? 👇
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Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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Things I’ve learned since the iPhone Duo launched:
- Apple cooked the folding market
- Android users are incapable of praising an iPhone
- App optimization is apparently a deciding factor of buying a phone or not, before it’s even released
- Apparently the measure of a good display is watching in direct sunlight
- iPhone Duo’s video is very good. Can’t say that for other folds.
- speakers are also very good
- Being an iPad Air user for years paid off! Touch ID!
- Apparently when you cancel your Duo order you have to post it on Twitter. Announcing departures like this place is an airport.
- I LOVE SNOOPY
- With a big launch like this you always discover who really loves tech
- Normal people are going to absolutely love this phone!
Truthfully the iPhone has never felt so enjoyable and whimsical to use and even if you don’t want to buy it I’d try to find a store that has one and try it for yourself.
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And that’s with most people still not having a clue about FSD.
As more people get exposed to it those numbers will keep rising.
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Tesla just registered another 69 Cybercabs for its Robotaxi fleet, bringing the total number of Cybercabs registered to date to 420, according to the Texas DMV.
Yes, these are real numbers.
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Telecom CEOs to investors
“Starlink Mobile will never work! Trust me!”
Telecom CEOs to FCC:
“Please block Starlink mobile”
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Elon on Robotaxi: "Unless we are stopped by governments, Tesla will end up doing a majority of all passenger miles in any country where it is allowed to operate."
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$TSLA got 7 price target raises this morning.
Zero cuts. Zero downgrades.
- Piper Sandler: $475 (Overweight)
- Mizuho: $460 (Outperform)
- Canaccord: $442 (Buy)
- JPMorgan: $430 (Neutral)
- UBS: $425 (Neutral)
- Morgan Stanley: $410 (from $400)
- CLSA: $400, upgraded from Underperform to Hold
TD Cowen reiterated Buy at $460. Goldman stayed Neutral at $360.
My take?
Wall Street saw what it's buying: 75%+ FSD attach rate on new North American deliveries, positive free cash flow, and the biggest backlog in 4 years 🔥🚀
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Everyday Chris with a good deep review of Rivian R2 I learned about several features that I haven’t seen in previous reviews.
Even in this clip that I pulled of software issues; these are mostly things that seem to be correctable or have already been corrected in software updates.
I genuinely like this vehicle. If Rivian achieves quality self driving they will sell a lot of them someday.
