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From the self-driving sub. These unsupervised Robotaxi videos are nightmare fuel.

And now for the regularly scheduled TSLA Terathread

Same as FSD, coming very soon for like a decade.

Kyle Shanahan said Saturday he thought his Tesla was in autopilot mode when he veered into oncoming traffic June 14, causing a crash that left the San Francisco 49ers coach with broken bones and a lingering concussion.

In his first podium appearance since the collision, Shanahan said the autopilot function apparently switched off when he tried to retrieve a fallen cell phone while traveling south on Alma Avenue in Palo Alto. The coach said he’s been using autopilot in some form for nine years.

“So I’m pretty comfortable with it and, you know, who knows what happened when I turned around — whether it malfunctioned or whether I knocked it off?” he said. “That’s something I don’t know yet.”

And now for the regularly scheduled TSLA Terathread

SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. 

Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be “bringing our own power” for the project, which will also include “very large battery arrays.”

Notably absent from the Bloomberg report — and other SpaceX announcements related to Terafab — is any mention of terrestrial solar power for the facility. Tesla, which is also a solar developer, is a partner in the project.

Despite his investments in solar power, SpaceX and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has bet heavily on natural gas lately. The xAI data centers in Memphis run almost exclusively on the fossil fuel. Musk also recently bought a company that specializes in natural gas power plants, and SpaceX has said it plans to buy $2.8 billion worth of gas turbines over the next three years.

Tesla has officially acknowledged that the power conversion system (PCS) in pre-2026 Cybertrucks is defective, and it’s extending the warranty on those trucks to 8 years or 150,000 miles.

The reversal comes after months of owners paying up to $7,200 to replace a part Tesla now admits “does not meet our reliability standards.” The automaker sneakily tried to let the clear manufacturing defect pass warranties.