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At ABIA, just boarded our flight to Mexico. While we were waiting to board, the PA announcer comes on and in his most sarcastic Texas drawl says ...

"Attention passengers in the terminal, we need the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck who left their vehicle parked sideways across two departure dropoff lanes to return to the vehicle before it is towed".

That may be the most 'Cybertruck driver' thing ever.

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22 minutes ago, wood said:

At ABIA, just boarded our flight to Mexico. While we were waiting to board  the PA announcer comes on and in his most sarcastic Texas drawl says ...

"Attention passengers on the terminal, we need the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck who left their vehicle parked sideways across two departure dropoff lanes to return to the vehicle before it is towed".

That may be the most 'Cybertruck driver' thing ever.

Before it’s towed or before it explodes?

3 hours ago, wood said:

At ABIA, just boarded our flight to Mexico. While we were waiting to board  the PA announcer comes on and in his most sarcastic Texas drawl says ...

"Attention passengers on the terminal, we need the owner of the Tesla Cybertruck who left their vehicle parked sideways across two departure dropoff lanes to return to the vehicle before it is towed".

That may be the most 'Cybertruck driver' thing ever.

Saw one loading their groceries in a packed HEB parking lot on Sunday. Instead of having their cart behind their car like a normal fucking person she had it sitting in the empty spot next to her so nobody could park there. 

33 minutes ago, Chopper said:

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Poor Dave died inside his Tesla.

Poor Dave has never read his user manual.  There are no rear emergency door releases for Model 3 up through model year 2023.  The emergency egress from the vehicle is through the front doors, which have easy to locate and operate emergency releases.  

7 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

through the front doors, which have easy to locate and operate emergency releases.  

Dave was confused. He was in the back seat. So he died. 

I've heard they started last week, but lots of rumors

Elon Musk confirms Tesla plan for robotaxis on Austin roads in June

  • Tesla CEO Elon Musk said robotaxis will be on the streets of Austin, Texas, by the end of June.
  • Musk spoke in an interview with CNBC's David Faber.
  • Musk also said he was committed to leading the automaker for the next five years.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company will have robotaxis on the streets of Austin, Texas, by the end of June.

In an interview with CNBC's David Faber on Tuesday at the company's headquarters in Austin, Musk said Tesla aims to bring its robotaxis to Los Angeles and San Francisco following the planned Austin debut.

Musk said a Tesla robotaxi service will start with about 10 vehicles in Austin, and rapidly expand to thousands of vehicles should the launch go well with no incidents.

Since 2016, Musk has been promising Tesla investors, customers and fans that the company is about a year away from delivering a self-driving car that's capable of transporting passengers safely without human interventions, or a human at the steering wheel. However, Tesla does not yet offer a vehicle safe to use without human supervision.

"It's prudent for us to start with a small number, confirm that things are going well and then scale it up," Musk said.

To start, Tesla has said its robotaxis will be Model Y vehicles equipped with a forthcoming version of FSD, or full self-driving, known as FSD Unsupervised.

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Musk said Tesla "will geofence" its robotaxis in Austin to start, meaning the company will limit where those Model Y vehicles can drive. But there won't be a human safety driver in the cars, Musk promised.

Tesla employees will be remotely monitoring the fleet, he said.

"We'll be watching what the cars are doing very carefully and as confidence grows, less of that will be needed," Musk said.

Musk has previously claimed Tesla's "generalized" approach to robotaxis is more ambitious than Waymo's. Tesla relies on camera-based systems and computer vision primarily instead of using sophisticated sensors including lidar and radar in its vehicles.

Musk has said those sensors were expensive and could impede high-volume robotaxi production and scaling of a global fleet.

"What will actually work best for the road system is artificial intelligence, digital neural nets and cameras," Musk said Tuesday.

 

 

From last week:

US agency sends Tesla questions about Austin robotaxi plan

According to the NHTSA’s letter sent on May 8, the agency requested certain information from Tesla regarding its development of driving automation technologies.

“As you are aware, NHTSA has an ongoing defect investigation (PE24031) into FSD collisions in reduced roadway visibility conditions,” the letter read.

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3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

"We'll be watching what the cars are doing very carefully and as confidence grows, less of that will be needed," Musk said.

Some auto-driving expert pointed out that's a huge red flag. Are workers in some command center supposed to be driving or instructor-driving robotaxis? Very dangerous and not how things are done.

Also someone from Waymo announced the score today. Number of paid, self-driving rides: Waymo 10,000,000 - Tesla 0.0

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Will these taxi’s spend the whole ride lecturing  passengers on the horrors of white genocide?

I assume that Musk will need to undercut Uber by a wide margin or fully overload Austin will the robotaxis in order to gain real volume.

8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I assume that Musk will need to undercut Uber by a wide margin or fully overload Austin will the robotaxis in order to gain real volume.

It would be kind of funny if Uber had their strategy turned against them. They built their market share on pricing competitors out and then raising prices again once they killed their competition 

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I reserve my judgment until I see how many scooter riders are hit by the Tesla robotaxis.

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1 minute ago, South Austin said:

I reserve my judgment until I see how many scooter riders are hit by the Tesa robotaxis.

I always forget about the scooter problem Austin has until I visit. Houston doesn’t have them unless someone personally owns a scooter.

8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I always forget about the scooter problem Austin has until I visit. Houston doesn’t have them unless someone personally owns a scooter.

Shitmire is actively tearing our bike lanes. Houston has no scooter infrastructure, period. 

15 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I always forget about the scooter problem Austin has until I visit. Houston doesn’t have them unless someone personally owns a scooter.

I was in New York last summer and the scooters there are terrible.

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

I reserve my judgment until I see how many scooter riders are hit by the Tesa robotaxis.

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1 hour ago, Parliament said:

Will these taxi’s spend the whole ride lecturing  passengers on the horrors of white genocide?

No, it's moved onto the Holocaust and...just how many Jews really died in WWII...

The Onion had a great interview in Vogue, but this quote was spot on:

What’s the biggest difference between Elon Musk and the CEO of The Onion? “I know I’m not funny—and he has no idea,” says Ben Collins. In the 12 months since The Onion’s purchase last year, it has reached new comic heights—see: viral headlines like “Nation Can’t Believe It on Harvard’s Side”—while increasing its cultural footprint.

Collins sits down for a long, fascinating talk on many topics, including the publication’s attempt to purchase Infowars and how he turned The Onion around. As Collins tells VF’s Chris Murphy, “There’s nothing fascists hate more than getting truly ripped on.”

Don’t have a link unit it knight have been  posted already, but from the new Atlantic story:

 

“Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was shouting at Elon Musk in the halls of the West Wing last month, loud enough for Donald Trump to hear and in a language that he could certainly understand. Bessent and Musk were fighting over which of them should choose the next IRS leader—and, implicitly, over Musk’s bureaucracy-be-damned crusade. Without securing the Treasury chief’s sign-off, Musk had pushed through his own pick for the job. Bessent was, quite obviously, not having it.

The fight had started outside the Oval Office; it continued past the Roosevelt Room and toward the chief of staff’s office, and then barreled around the corner to the national security adviser’s warren. Musk accused Bessent of having run two failed hedge funds. “I can’t hear you,” he told Bessent as they argued, their faces just inches apart. “Say it louder.”

 

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I’m sure that is true. But when you have half a trillion $$, probably hard to look at yourself objectively.

On 5/21/2025 at 7:45 AM, South Austin said:

I was in New York last summer and the scooters there are terrible.

I think Denver might be even worse than Austin. 

4 minutes ago, kevwun said:

I think Denver might be even worse than Austin. 

Supposedly changes are coming!

The death penalty for anyone who abandons a scooter parked completely across a sidewalk?  I'd support it if I lived there.

27 minutes ago, kevwun said:

The death penalty for anyone who abandons a scooter parked completely across a sidewalk?  I'd support it if I lived there.

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Well we may be working towards cutting down all the trees, so that’s a problem being solved already orthogonally. 

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2 hours ago, Parliament said:

I’m gonna go ahead and say that in a fight, Musk is a bleeder with a glass jaw.

 

12 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

don't worry, coming to austin, fsd robo taxis, next month!

On the plus side, maybe they’ll take out some of the idiots on e-scooters.

On 5/20/2025 at 2:58 PM, Guadaloopy said:

Poor Dave has never read his user manual.  There are no rear emergency door releases for Model 3 up through model year 2023.  The emergency egress from the vehicle is through the front doors, which have easy to locate and operate emergency releases.  

If I can’t find my HouseBeast KeyFob I have to crawl out of an upstairs window. But my neighbors are stuck with stupid and lame doorknobs inside and out, while I’ve ditched them for clean and futurist no-doorknob Cyberdoors. 
 

 

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