“And they’re better cars [@tesla_na] Both Model 3 & Y start at under $40k & can drive themselves under supervision”
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“It was easy to predict. This is their standard playbook. Look at what they did to President @realDonaldTrump. He was loved by democrats until he ran for president. Now they call him Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc and try to kill him. [@WesternLensman] 2022: Elon predicts the left would launch a “dirty tricks campaign” once he decided to leave the party of “division and hate." 2025: Death threats, Tesla stores shot up, Superchargers firebombed, cyber attacks on 𝕏 and conservative 𝕏 users swatted. They proved him right.”
“Tesla self-driving is amazing! [@Tesla] You can get a glimpse of that today: although FSD Supervised currently does require your supervision, you will still notice that your commute or long drives are suddenly so much less taxing. No constant micro-adjustments in rush hour traffic. No frustration. Car does it all for”
“I forgot to mention that Optimus was doing this while “blindfolded”. We haven’t yet made vision part of the control loop for uneven terrain. Optimus robots are regularly cruising around our workplace in Palo Alto where vision is used for static & dynamic object avoidance.”
“Interview with Tesla Owners SV [@teslaownersSV] BREAKING LIVE INTERVIEW: @elonmusk for "The Future, Engineered" at @theXTakeover 2025! Mind-blowing insights on AI, SpaceX, Tesla & beyond from the ultimate visionary! Don’t miss it—watch on @teslaownersSV from San Mateo! @corporatestrea1 #XTakeover2025 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1djxXVPNgdBGZ”
“Due to laws against data export, Tesla achieved the top results in China despite having no local training data. Tesla is adding training data from our world simulator and test tracks to achieve 6/6. [@SawyerMerritt] NEWS: Chinese media tested ADAS in various scenarios, including highways & night driving. @Tesla’s vision-based system outperformed emerging Chinese brands like Huawei & Xiaomi, as well as traditional automakers. Even with LiDAR, competitors’ ADAS performance lags behind Tesla.”
“First (supervised) FSD approval in Europe! Congratulations to the Tesla team and thank you to the regulatory authorities in the Netherlands for all the hard work required to make this happen. [@teslaeurope] De toekomst van mobiliteit is aangebroken FSD Supervised has been approved in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 & will begin rolling out in the country shortly! Trained on billions of kilometers of real-world driving data, it can drive you almost anywhere under your supervision – from”
“Correct [@Teslaconomics] I realize more and more that there is such a thing as dumb person in life. “Turn off the lights and vision fails, LiDAR keeps working” may sound logical in theory, but the Waymo SF power outage really just disproved it. During the recent San Francisco power outage, Waymo’s… https://x.com/i/web/status/2003102684745019586”
“@PPathole @Tesla Autopilot prime directive is: don’t crash. What seems fast to humans is slow to a computer. 360 degree low light vision & sonar, plus forward radar enable to be superhuman. Upcoming software upgrades will increasingly show the potential.”
“Tesla is the leader in real-world AI [@teslaownersSV] Elon Musk on Waymo vs Tesla “The Tesla solution, which is a much more difficult path to go but ultimately much more powerful, is a general solution to self-driving. The Tesla software is purely AI and vision. It doesn't rely on any expensive sensors, no lidars, no radars. It… https://x.com/i/web/status/2003964681367724196”
“@cb_doge Tesla vision AI could really crush these Google “not a bot” tests lol”
“Whereas radar has trouble seeing small pedestrians, they’re obvious to Tesla vision”
“@Tesla Eurovision”
“FSD Beta has now been expanded to ~2000 owners & we’ve also revoked beta where drivers did not pay sufficient attention to the road. No accidents to date. Next significant release will be in April. Going with pure vision — not even using radar. This is the way to real-world AI.”
“Tesla Autopilot vision neural net now working well. Just need to get a lot of road time to validate in a wide range of environments.”
“@BillyM2k @OfficialABQ Maybe Tesla should make an AI vision device that plugs into these legacy traffic lights. It could just look at traffic & automatically maximize throughput.”
“@WholeMarsBlog We need to predict what pedestrians will do based on their behavior, including limb angle & direction of sight. FSD currently sees all pedestrians as cuboids, so is overly cautious. Also, diffusion seems to be more compute-efficient than transformers for vision.”
“@Teslarati @ResidentSponge Pure vision Autopilot is now rolling out in North America. There will be an update of this production release in 2 weeks, then FSD beta V9.0 (also pure vision) a week later. FSD subscription will be enabled around the same time.”
“@EZebroni @Tesla Expect rapid improvement with pure vision”
“@garyblack00 We had to focus on removing radar & confirming safety. That release goes out next week to US production. Then a week or two to polish pure vision FSD & v9 beta will release. Difference between v8 & v9 is gigantic.”
“@nursedanakay Pure AI vision auto park. Coming soon, your Tesla will take you to your destination and park automatically, unless you ask it otherwise.”
“@teslaownersSV @Teslarati @JohnnaCrider1 Many small things. We’re starting to make use of neural nets for vehicle navigation & control, not just vision.”
“@alex_avoigt Imagine if you could see in all directions simultaneously and never get distracted or tired. How much better could you drive? That what Tesla’s Autopilot vision AI is becoming.”
“@_opencv_ It’s all part of broader vision/strategy 😂 Starship 10 is launching on Sunday. Grok 5 begins training next month. Tesla Autopilot V14 also next month. Long-term strategy is compelling.”
“@tesla_addicted One of the improvements to FSD vision involves training with actual photon counts, so removing the filters used to make pictures pretty to the human eye”
“@WholeMarsBlog Almost ready with FSD Beta V9.0. Step change improvement is massive, especially for weird corner cases & bad weather. Pure vision, no radar.”
“@WholeMarsBlog One more production release of pure vision this week, then FSD beta 9 a week or two later. V9.0 FSD is also pure vision. Foundational improvements are immense.”
“@SawyerMerritt Ethan is very talented, but “vision chief” would be overstating things. There are over 200 excellent engineers in the Tesla AI/Autonomy team. Tesla’s pace of progress with autonomy is accelerating. The talent war for AI is the craziest talent war I’ve ever seen!”
“@teslaownersSV @TeslaNY @Tesla Gating factor is achieving & proving higher safety with pure vision than with vision+radar. We are almost there. FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind.”
“@FrenchieEAP @karpathy FSD beta 9 is using the pure vision production code for highway driving. Beta 10 hopefully (Beta 11 definitely) will use one stack to rule them all – city streets, highway & complex parking lots.”
“@Dreamweaver2oh @garyblack00 I think we’re maybe a month or two away from wide beta. But these things are hard to predict accurately. The work we had to do for pure vision driving was needed for FSD, so much more progress has been made than it would seem.”
“RT @Tesla: First your Tesla comes to pick you up, then it drives you where you need to go All on its own, under your supervision”
“RT @Tesla: Tesla drives itself down Lombard Street in San Francisco under supervision”
“RT @FoxNews: "Vision and opportunity. Tesla's a big company. I believed in what the CEO's mission was, and I wanted to be a part of it." E…”
“@TeslaMotors Tesla's approach to building an autonomy platform is focused on high compute efficiency machine learning. Primarily vision w radar & sonar.”
“@farzyness @Univision @Tesla @YouTube Weird”
“RT @tesla_na: Try letting your Tesla drive itself under your supervision. Significantly safer than manual driving + a lot less stressful,…”
“@cutza7 When the car is FSD without supervision, ie robotaxi, you’ll be able to earn far more than monthly lease/loan cost by allowing others to use it. Managing a small fleet of robotaxis will be a career for many & much better than driving a single car.”
“@cleantechnica Many talented engineers are working on FSD at Tesla. What matters is solving vision at high frame rate in our compute space with low latency between camera frame & actuation.”
“@IvanEscobosa @Erdayastronaut @teslaownersSV A few more revisions needed. Probably Beta 10 or 11.”
“RT @teslaownersSV: “Elon Musk is a visionary, somebody who continues to just push the boundaries, looking for a future that we really want…”
“RT @SawyerMerritt: NEWS: As of 2024, Tesla drivers using Autopilot technology (with active driver supervision) achieved a safety record nea…”
“@redmor11 @PlugInFUD @JoelSapp @rrosenbl @Tesla NVIDIA is a great company, but we needed (essentially) a dedicated ASIC for vision-based driving, whereas their solution needs to serve many different customer needs.”
“RT @teslaownersSV: Starship is the largest, most capable rocket ever developed and will allow us to achieve a shared vision of a future whe…”
“@28delayslater @EvaFoxU Third revision of Enhanced Summon hopefully going to Tesla owners with early access later this week”
“@EESNY @teslaownersSV @S100Dfan Applying a hydrophobic coating to the radar (located just below nose of car) should help. Easy to do yourself or Tesla service can do it. We’re also working on vision-only driving.”
“@JoelSapp @rrosenbl @Tesla Exactly, Tesla & Nvidia numbers described by Pete were max *usable* teraops running our vision net”
“@HugoMeister42 Model 3, Model X & Model S will all have same level of Autopilot capability. It's just a matter of refining the vision & control software.”
“There will ultimately be tens of millions of driverless Teslas throughout the world giving rides 24/7 https://t.co/zWK5dHy75e”
“Other trucks look badass, Cybertruck actually is https://t.co/5DufWfoOAA”
