Musk recalls an anecdote about his brother giving him the wrong time to catch the school bus, to ensure he catches the bus, as a way to illustrate his trouble with deadlines. He has consistently promised self-driving cars, but has yet to deliver. But this time is different, he claims. “I deliver in the end. That’s important.”
“It will be like an Airbnb thing. You can add or subtract your car to the fleet whenever you want. So you can say, like, I’m going away for a week at just one tap on your Tesla app, your car gets added to the fleet and it just makes money for you while you’re gone.”
The company has previously teased this capability in the Tesla app.
I get the feeling we’re going to get a lot of statements like this. He starts out talking about energy storage, sustainability, and then shifts to autonomy. He repeats his claim that most people don’t understand what Tesla is working on. And he adds a dig at people who live in New York who don’t drive cars. As a transit rider, I’ll try to keep my opinions to myself.
He jumps in the air with both arms raised. He is clearly in a good mood. “I just want to start off by saying, hot damn, I love you guys.”
Tesla is moving to Texas. Kimbal Musk and James Murdoch have been reappointed to the board. And, of course, Elon Musk has won re-approval for his massive $50 billion pay package.
Both proposals are opposed by the board and are unlikely to be adopted. But I’ll say it again, the annual shareholder meeting is one of the few Tesla events where outside, competing voices pierce the bubble.
This is a timely one, considering all the allegations that have been leveled at Tesla over the years regarding racism, gender discrimination, retaliation, and harassment. It won’t succeed, but its still striking to hear it all detailed by a shareholder at an extremely Musk-friendly event.
The Tesla CEO appears heading to victory in today’s shareholder vote over his enormous pay package. Musk posted two graphs on X last night which showed both proposals — the one of his compensation, and the other on reincorporating Tesla in Texas — ahead by wide margins. But the results aren’t final yet, and things could still go pear-shaped. After all, this is Tesla we’re talking about. Tune in at 3:30 pm CT if you want to watch Musk dive into a pile of cash, Scrooge McDuck-style.
There have been so many mattress options from enterprising third-party companies for years, ever since camping in a Tesla (and other EVs) became a thing. Now, Tesla is making its own form-fitted $225 mattress that includes foam padding, a 12V pump, and a carry bag. It’s potentially a more elegant solution than the Cybertruck Basecamp option.
Tesla says it “deployed two Optimus bots performing tasks in the factory autonomously.” It’s just a single bullet in a very long post on X that Elon made somebody write to justify voting for his $56 billion payday.
That autonomy could mean anything, of course, but this video from May includes a possible scenario.
Take this guy, for example. He’s laying it on thick, celebrating Tesla’s Full Self-Driving as more capable than Waymo’s autonomous vehicles without all the sensors and precision mapping. Just nothing but pure, unencumbered fandom. And the car still tries to kill him.
The part where he goes “Fuck” after grabbing the wheel — and then still manages to praise the car as “pretty good” was my favorite.
