There’s never a dull day in Elon Musk’s world, and this Friday is no exception. Among the slew of Tesla news dropping this morning comes the fact that the company is slashing the purchase price of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ feature by $3,000 — which means that instead of dropping $15,000 for the pleasure of still being…
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The road to a productionCybertruck has been bumpy. Almost as bumpy and uneven as the first Cybertrucks coming out of the Austin Gigafactory, which have reportedly been so bad that they prompted Elon Musk to send an urgent email to Tesla employees. In the message, Musk demanded greater precision in the production…
Recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided to livestream a demonstration of the company’s Full Self-Driving v12 software on Twitter, which he recently changed to just X. Back in July, Musk described the new software as “mind-blowing,” so obviously, it was going to be perfect at driving despite not using radar or lidar, and…