Before you go public, as you control all the shares. What's SpaceX going to do? You think Elmo is going to give up the shares, or is he going to issue 73 million more and dilute the price?

Sounds like 46 more targets of investigation.

Trump doesn't need an excuse, he wants to be pals with Putin and he's desperate to fix his self-inflicted economic and oil problems before the mid-terms.

Have to admire Zelenskyy's moxie. "Oh, you want oil, do you?"

Unless they're secretly training on all your chats despite them saying they're not.

99.9% of that can be solved with allowing the construction of new designs of reactors instead of booting the old ones back up.

So basically create a permanent underclass of indentured servants...

Obligatory Everclear.

Uh, as I understand it, it isn't that AM radio interferes with the car. It's that the car interferes with AM radio. It can be solved, certainly, but am I willing to pay for extra shielding in my EV so that it doesn't interfere with my ability to listen to AM radio?

Ditto. Sounds like I'll just need to dynamically avoid their restaurants...

Uh, huh, sure.

When you boil it down, situational awareness is little more than our attempt to maintain a mental model of what's happening around us. And models can be wrong.

Do humans have eyes on the sides of their heads? In the back of their heads? Can they watch all directions simultaneously? No.

Can they instantaneously detect changes in speed and direction? No.

Can they react in microseconds? No.

No to all of that. In fact, numerous studies have shown that most people can only deal with about three events occurring at the same time. Throw one more into the mix and they start to lock up.

And "the fact that numerous people surrender all of that" is precisely the problem. People get distracted. They daydream. They drive on autopilot. They become impaired.They lose focus. They get old and slow down. They're not looking in the right direction when some event occurs. And even when they do they often make poor decisions. They overreact and they overcompensate.

And that's when 40,000 people a year die.

Pretty sure most Model 3's and Y's don't have odor detectors, and those are supposedly the vehicles owners would send out to make money why they sleep.

Tesla's numbers already indicate that it's better. (Then again, they're Tesla's numbers.) But my point remains, if they cut down the number of deaths, injuries, and fender-benders it's a net win.

What, if anything I posted was in defense of Elon? All of the above were facts. That's where the HQ is. That's where the engineers are. That's the Texas law.

Musk picked Austin for Tesla’s robotaxi trials and rollouts primarily because the city serves as the home base for Tesla's corporate headquarters, and it offers close proximity to company engineers and executives overseeing the project.

Also, Texas law does not permit individual cities to regulate or ban autonomous vehicles, so it's an AV friendly environment.

Finally, other autonomous vehicle networks, such as Waymo, had already established testing footprints in Austin.

So sorry, but I think your conspiracy theory is a bit short lived.... ;)