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Tesla is trying to escape launching the semi TEN YEARS after announcing it. Instead, they are attempting to launch a mere nine years after announcing it.

The Pepsi trials with this truck were a disaster, we’ll see if they fixed the numerous problems.


Can you provide more detail on the Pepsi trials? I haven't read anything about it

With the Frito Lay trials there were numerous cases of the Tesla trucks dying and needing to be towed by ICE trucks.

That’s why it is called a trial

Tesla has a history of exaggerating the ranges of their vehicles to an extent that competitors do not.

Being a two-time Tesla owner for 8 years, at this point, there is no claim Tesla can possibly make that I would ever believe. Their (and Elon’s) track record on countless claims have been wildly misleading at best or completely false at worst.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/transportation/917167/elon-musk-tes...


Trucking seems like an industry where exaggerating the range will lead to contracts being cancelled and companies being sued. I'm assuming that a Tesla Semi can't just stop off at the nearest Supercharger.

I've read that Semis need to use a "MegaCharger" ...

big branding fail not using "gigacharger"

Megacharger because they're a Megawatt of power. 1.2MW

Try ChargeMaxing, and hitting it with a hammer.

an acceptable alternative :chefs_kiss:

they haven't gotten on the road yet, so it remains to be seen

Got source for this?

IIRC they are right in the middle of pack.


Right there at the bottom of the page: https://www.tesla.com/semi

The embargo won't backfire, because any delay of China's development was worth it to the US. The situation was never, "China wasn't developing AI chips, now it is", it was always, "China IS developing their own AI chips, let's just slow them down as much as we can."

The engines are so awesome that test flights are loaded with 10% of the promised capacity of the rocket. Someone is blowing smoke up your ass.

If my rocket doesn’t need to deliver any results on any timeline, it can be infinitely advanced. Convenient, right?

Always send your public posts through a local LLM to de-style you.

Please do not wash your authentic writing through an LLM.

I predicted with 100% certainty that this company would fail at launch. What I failed to predict was how long it would take. I’m not bragging, everyone should see it coming.

You don’t need PII to prove you are not a robot. See Privacy Pass. And I don’t know how a website is somehow going to verify your PII as not-fake, anyway.

Likely you just use a shit web browser.


How a website is going to identify your PI as non-fake? Isn't that the entire business model behind Persona which has been in the news for leaks? (There are a few websites I've had to verify my if I with them for)

the way to pass captcha as a bot is to pay off the company that makes the captcha by using their bot.

cloudflare browser run, superb. no captcha.


You mean you set your useragent to match the one of CloudFlare bot and that avoids captchas on sites?

cloudflare make a remote browser, browser run. you can use it as an API or as an agent tool.

i can let opencode merrily browse the web and it doesn't get stopped. a bit like a drug mule bribing the cops.


i have privacy pass and i really can't make it work.

every time there is a captcha it makes you authenticate. so it's the same thing as the captcha.

maybe i have it misconfigured


Naïve, willing to work for nothing, likely a nepo baby with connections, arrogant, and with a sense of entitlement what will help drive a jumbo liquidity event. They’re the perfect prey for VCs.

The guns needed for the U.S. revolution came from the French. Most U.S. farmer guns were shit for actual warfare.


That's true, but the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy (And by extension, arguably the entire Revolution) were literally started by the Brits trying to confiscate their materiel. This was long before the French became involved.


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