brandonagr2

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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Starship will crash into the ocean at terminal velocity off Hawaii (with no belly flop maneuver to stop descent right above the ocean), there may be some floating bits but not recoverable in any significant sense. The booster will do a land
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
You seem to have missed a lot of news recently, Chevy has already announced they are delaying their truck at least another year because they have no hope of making them without losing money. Why do you think Stellantis will do any better th
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
And it works better now, the previous low resolution radar was not helpful once the vision stack is sufficiently advanced
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Self driving does not equal unsupervised driving (the phrase is not synonymous with autonomous driving). The same way that cruise control doesn't mean the car controls the cruising with no supervision.
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
A Tesla doesn't have to be a second car, you can drive anywhere in the country using the supercharger network. https://supercharge.info/map
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
I have a Tesla, I use the dedicated buttons on the steering wheel without taking my eyes off the road to operate radio and cruise, what else are you constantly changing that would require more buttons?
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
A lot more minor injuries? You are aware that over 100 people are killed in cars every single day in the US alone right?
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Why should lidar be a requirement when that's not a requirement for humans to be able to drive? The goal is to reduce traffic fatalities, humans are not reliable, if you say we can't have automation until its 100% perfect, then yo
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
> until SpaceX has proven they've done the work and have done their best to mitigate these issues going forward I have great news for you, they have already done that! https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/17
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Just imagine only sending 20 people instead of a theoretical 100 people in a single starship out of an armada of starships to mars. Would it even be worth the trip if we landed only 20 people per ship? That would make actually landing on ma
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
How is twitter failing? Usage is growing and they will be cash flow positive soon, that sounds better than twitter 1.0 was doing
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
You sound like you don't know anything about what actually happened or the SpaceX engineering process in general. SpaceX knew that the concrete wasn't the final solution, it was always temporary, they had already started building
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Protected wetlands are the best places to put launch sites, just look at cape canaveral / KSC, the wildlife is doing great there
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
He should put his show on X/Twitter
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Any data to back up your "routinely delivers" anecdote to try and slander Tesla? All MachEs were just recalled for being unfit for use, even if some body panels were misaligned on Teslas (they aren't any different from every
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Why would you forget about EV 18 wheelers? https://jalopnik.com/tesla-semi-wins-range-test-against-volv...
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Is Ford really going strong? They just cut F150 Lightning production, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-cutting-f-150-lightning-...
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Most manufacturers (besides Tesla) lose money on every EV they sell, such as ford losing 32k per EV (other OEMs don't break out reporting for EVs), they would not lower cost by the tax incentive if it went away.
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
What do you mean FSD won't happen? I used FSD in my car this morning to drive to work
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
How can you classify a prediction as a lie? You could say it's unrealistic or delusional based solely on your guesses without having seen any financial data, but it's not a lie.
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
If you want best in class safety tech and no dealer markups, you can just order a Tesla online
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Go to service.tesla.com, login with a free account, you can access all repair information and service manuals for free. You absolutely can download a manual, buy some parts, and DIY https://service.tesla.com/user/vehicl
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Everyone believed what? You seem to be unaware or Elon time or how Elon has made predictions in the past, generally not that "this will happen by date X" but that "this cannot possibly happen _before_ date X". Which are
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
This is because X will soon offer the optional ability to verify your account with government ID in addition to the current blue checkmark. _If you want to_, the process would be take a selfie and a picture of your government issued ID, and
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Cars driven with autopilot were at 4.8 million miles between accidents in Q4 2022, by your metric Autopilot is by definition vastly safer than the median human driver https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
"potentially broken software" = "all software", therefore you said self driving software should never exist and you are happy to support 40,000+ people dying in the US every year who could be saved with autonomous vehicl
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Everyone alive everywhere is always at risk of death at anytime, your statement has no meaning. Are you trying to imply that a human driver monitoring a self driving system is somehow increasing the risk to others when its actually decreasi
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
Have you not heard of Community Notes? https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/about/introducti...
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
It is painful when the link is a clickbait blog intro linking to actual article that is paywalled
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by brandonagr2 3y ago
It saves a lot of money compared to having a built car sitting in a lot waiting for a buyer.

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