• Tesla! AI, Self-driving, Waymo, Govt Overreach

  • Oct 24 2024
  • Length: 33 mins
  • Podcast

Tesla! AI, Self-driving, Waymo, Govt Overreach

  • Summary

  • Oregon Duck Football

    Purdue 35-0. Ranked #1.

    Markets Netflix Earnings
    • New record high. $752 today, but reached $772.
    • Maybe running ahead of itself a little, but still pure streaming play with no end of growth in site.
    • Q4: Tyson, Football, Squid…
    Tesla Earnings

    Tesla up almost 22% today. At $260. High was 410.

    Sandy Munroe set me straight!

    • Investor Deck
    • Everyone should simply listen to the Earnings Call.
    • Elon said 20-30% growth next year.
    • Full autonomy approved and ride-hailing in CA and TX in 2025.
    • Safer than humans by Q2 2025
    • Full scale production of CyberCab by 2026. No steering wheel and no pedals. Big screen for movies and comfortable.
    • Cybertruck became the third best-selling EV in Q3 in the U.S. (behind only Model Y and Model 3)
    • Increased AI training compute by over 75% in Q3
    • Over two billion miles driven cumulatively on FSD (Supervised)4 as of Q3 with more than 50% on V12
    • Two key points coming here:
      • Ability to learn. 10k miles per intervention.
      • Optimus!!!
        • Dexterity movement. 22 degrees of freedom. Human = 27. Doorknobs.
        • Think about the AI real-world functionality.
        • Most advanced humanoid robot by a long-shot!
        • Only company that can scale manufacturing.
        • Optimus will be most valuable part of company.
    • The Services and Other business achieved a record gross profit in Q3, growing over 90% year-on-year.

    Financials:

    • A lot of talk about the “machines” that build the machines. Most advanced factories in the world!
    • Energy revenue up 52% YoY and Services up 29% YoY.
    • Gross profit up 20%, with revenue up 8%

    Uber Demand aggregator?

    Self-driving cars:

    WSJ on Waymo and San Francisco, LA, Phoenix and Austin.

    • Waymo is on a marketing blitz that includes social-media ads promoting the privacy of its cars for date night
    • Also going to partner thru Uber app.
    • Competition is good and will keep regulators in check.
      • Google Waymo.
      • Amazon: Zoox.
      • GM: Cruise

    Googles Waymo Now Obviously the Leader in Self-Driving Cars 🤣

    Lot’s talk tech:

    Waymo uses a combination of sensors and software to enable autonomous driving.

    Government Over-reach

    • This story of strangulation by over-regulation from @elonmusk about the government requiring @SpaceX to assess whether their rockets could potentially hit SHARKS and WHALES is side-splittingly hilarious.
    • Seals
    • DOGE Dept of Government Efficiency
    • CCDH…Speaking X Twitter: Leaked documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate reveal their primary goal is to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

    CA Electric Bills!

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