How Tesla vehicles see

 

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

The human-perceived RGB is image 1 and the Tesla AI photon count reconstruction is image 2. This is why Tesla FSD can see so well at night or through extreme glare.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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Tesla AI Vision deploys airbags before impact, which greatly reduces risk of injury or death. This comes for free on all new cars.

Tesla

@Tesla

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Tesla Vision allows us to deploy airbags up to 70 milliseconds earlier if your Tesla detects an unavoidable collision This can be the difference between serious injury & walking away from a crash

Weaponized Gravity in trucking

 

Dustin

@r0ck3t23

Elon Musk just weaponized gravity. The entire trucking industry has a physics leak bleeding billions. Musk just sealed it. Most people look at the Tesla Semi and see a cleaner diesel. A truck that swapped a gas tank for a battery. That is a complete misread of the physics. Musk: “Let’s say you’re going over a mountain range. In a diesel truck, you actually don’t capture the energy of height or potential energy.” For a century, freight has fought gravity twice on every mountain. A diesel truck burns thousands of dollars in fuel clawing its way to the peak. It arrives at the summit loaded with enormous gravitational potential energy. And what does it do with that energy? It throws it away as heat. Musk: “You have to actually spend a lot of money on expensive brakes going down the other side so you don’t run out of control.” Diesel burns twice. Fuel going up. Hardware coming down. A century of logistics, and the descent was never anything but a cost to be survived. The Tesla Semi doesn’t survive the descent. It harvests it. Musk: “An electric semi truck is able to recapture the gravitational potential energy and in fact puts the energy back in the pack.” Regenerative braking doesn’t just slow the truck. It converts 80,000 pounds of downhill momentum into raw electricity flowing back into the battery. The mountain stops being an obstacle. It becomes a power plant. Here is the thermodynamic reality the market is missing. Diesel is closed on the descent. There is no version of a combustion engine that turns downhill momentum back into liquid fuel. It is structurally impossible. Electric is open in both directions. The same system that spends energy to climb gets paid on the way down. Wall Street keeps pricing the Tesla Semi on a cost-per-mile comparison. Kilowatts versus gallons. They are solving the wrong equation. You cannot win a price war against a machine that bills the planet for its own fuel.

Eshan

@eshanbuilds

"80,000 pounds of downhill momentum converted into raw electricity flowing back into the battery" is accurate physics described in a way that makes it sound like free energy. the energy recovered on descent was PURCHASED on ascent. you spent electricity climbing. you recovered a fraction descending. the net cost of crossing a mountain is lower than diesel. it is not zero and it is not profitable. the post's rhetorical structure treats the descent recovery as income. it's a rebate. the truck spent $100 in electricity climbing and recovered $65 descending. diesel spent $150 climbing and recovered $0. the EV advantage is $85 per mountain versus $150. that's a 43% savings. it's significant. but "43% savings on mountain crossings" doesn't go viral. "musk weaponized gravity and the mountain is now a power plant" does. the physics is real. the framing inflates it from "meaningful efficiency advantage" to "laws of thermodynamics broken." the first is true. the second is the version that gets 50K likes