If you can, please donate to the legal fund via GoFundMe or PayPal. Next Chapter: Who is Omar Qazi? My name is Omar Qazi, and I’m writing this because I need help. For the last two years a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity I tweeted about has been trying to ruin my life –– yes really, a […]
As gas prices reach eye-watering record levels, there’s been a lot of discussion about electric vehicles and their advantages and disadvantages compared to fossil fuel cars. As more people look to quit fossil fuels and go electric, you’ve heard a lot of the classic misconceptions about how you’ll be wasting time charging, running out of […]
Joe was late to pick up his kids from school again. He cursed as he frantically stuffed his foot into a sock with one hand, and grabbed his phone with the other. With a tap, he activated the climate control on his Tesla. His iPhone, more advanced than the supercomputers of just a few decades […]
Software is staring to eat the auto industry. For the first time, the most advanced cars on the road today now have the ability to see and understand what’s happening in the world around them. Although elusive, the goal is to make the AI’s understanding of the world so rich that it can control the […]
On Sunday morning Dan O’Dowd, the CEO of “Green Hills Software“, took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to declare war on Tesla Autopilot. The ad is full of misinformation, misconceptions, and dishonest arguments and it was funded by Tesla’s competitors. Though it’s silly, I wanted to take a few minutes to […]
It’s a question I hear all the time: “I have a Tesla in Canada, how do I get FSD Beta?” Well, you’re in luck. Believe it or not, there are people running the FSD Beta software in Canada right now. What’s more, I’m going to tell you how you can get FSD Beta in Canada […]
With FSD Beta evolving quickly, it’s fun to imagine where this technology takes us in a few years. Here’s some “Robotaxi Fan Fiction”: a couple of short stories about what the world might look like once this software is mature enough to enable driverless operation. Curbside Pickup Evelyn kneeled under her desk, unplugging her phone […]
On Sunday I was stuck in a nightmare scenario. It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and all of California was heading home from visiting family over the holidays. What’s normally a 5 and half hour drive between Los Angeles and Silicon Valley became a nine and a half hour drive, with much of the day […]
Before Thanksgiving is over in California, I just wanted to write a quick post to say how thankful I am for all the brilliant people working so hard on Tesla Autopilot & FSD. I’m thankful to everyone at Tesla for working so hard on something so important, but Autopilot & FSD are especially near and […]
The way we interface with our cars is changing rapidly. A few companies have already launched fully autonomous test cars with no user interface at all in some limited capacity. Meanwhile in the consumer auto market, the average level of automation in cars has noticeably increased. Functionality like lane-keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, and lane […]
Missy Cummings is working hard this weekend to erase history after more than 35,000 people signed a petition to review her appointment to NHTSA for bias and conflict of interest. I’ll have much more to say on this later, but for now I just wanted to post the petition so that it’s still on the […]
