Tesla Blog Posts

April 29th, 2019
  • Elon Musk
  • Tesla

A Message to Tesla

Thank you. Really. Thank you all so much. I get that it can be annoying when the work you do is credited to somebody else. But understand that as consumers, we are so happy with our products that we want to thank you and shake your hand, but we don’t know you exist. To the […]

April 26th, 2019
  • Self Driving
  • Speculation
  • Tesla

But how can we drive a Tesla with no steering wheel or pedals?

Brain dump. Tesla would likely provide in house developed control pad. Or you could use the Tesla app.

April 26th, 2019
  • Disruption
  • Friction Reduction
  • Self Driving
  • Tesla

Tesla could save $200M from one car part.

Last week Tesla revealed their Full Self Driving computer to shareholders. In that speech, they talked about the cost savings vs. their old computer. They stated that the cost of the new unit would be 80% of the cost of their old unit from NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit the cost […]

April 25th, 2019
  • Tesla

TSLA hits 52 week low

Yesterday Tesla reported Q1 earnings and today the stock plummets to 52 week low. They were negative over $700 million. Going back a couple quarters Elon stated that he thought they would be profitable in all future quarters, with perhaps the exception of this quarter. This quarter they had a bond debt to pay. $920M. […]

April 24th, 2019
  • Friction Reduction
  • Tesla

Insure My Tesla

I wondered many of times… will Tesla leverage their knowledge of vehicle safety to start their own insurance program? Why not give Tesla the premiums? They can provide rangers parts immediately upon claims. When Tesla does something, they remove all the friction they can to ensure users have the best experience possible. Shopping around for […]

April 24th, 2019
  • Friction Reduction
  • Model 3 Improvements
  • Self Driving
  • Technology
  • Tesla

Tesla saving money by switching to FSD.

Even if you watched the almost full 4 hours of video for Tesla Autonomy Day, you may have missed the 10 second slide that explains one very important thing. [Edit April 24] As it turns out, there are several mentions of this in the video. I timed the slide, wrote the sentence and now I […]

April 23rd, 2019
  • Elon Musk
  • Friction Reduction
  • Self Driving
  • Technology

NVIDIA disputes Tesla’s TOPS

A good article from Electric NVIDIA disputes some of Tesla’s FSD computer claims, but they miss the main point nicely points out the importance of power consumption in this debate. I have some more opinions on the matter. What makes a fair comparison? Is it fair to compare a product in mass production to a […]

April 23rd, 2019
  • Self Driving
  • Tesla

Self Driving Vector Space

In Tesla’s latest FSD Investor schpeel, Andrej Karpathy does a great presentation about using cameras to create a vector space. What is a vector space? Well, it is basically the most minified 3d model you can get. There would be 3d co-ordinates [latitude, longitude, altitude] and functions contained within these coordinates that traverse this 3d […]

April 16th, 2019
  • Self Driving
  • Tesla

Should you Buy Tesla AutoPilot or FSD?
Use this Algorithm.

var bankBalance = $50000; var autopilot = { thingYouWant: ‘autopilot’ cost: $5000; } var fsd = { thingYouWant: ‘fsd’ cost: $7000; } var otherThingsYouReallyWant = [ { thingYouWant: ‘vacation’, cost: $6000 } ,{ thingYouWant: ‘cottage’, cost: $120000 } ,{ thingYouWant: ‘boat’, cost: $20000 } ,{ thingYouWant: ‘trailer’, cost: $22000 } ]; function buy(purchase){ log(purchase); bankBalance […]


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