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    Scobleizer Retweets Praise for a Must-Read Tweet

    Tech commentator shares @AAMortazavi's endorsement of an unspecified post as great and essential.

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    Robert Scoble retweeted a message from @AAMortazavi. The retweeted content states that a particular tweet is really great and a must read. Scoble is a tech blogger, author, and commentator focused on AI, robots, spatial computing, and emerging tech. He previously worked at Microsoft. The original tweet being praised is not identified in the visible post. This retweet occurred in the context of AI discussions on the platform.

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    @ScobleizerWhy is Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi so important to me? And why is today such a huge deal? (Tesla is announcing Cybercab later today in a small event in Austin). It started in 1980 and 81 when two of my high school friends were killed in car wrecks. One was a girl who marched next to me in band. I visited her home the morning after it happened and saw the pain on her dad's face. I wish I could wave a magic wand and keep that pain from other fathers. Unfortunately about 40,000 a year in USA and 1.2 million world wide meet the same fate every year. If the airline industry killed that many we would never fly again and the airline industry would shut down. Since then I've had a front-row seat on the auto industry's efforts to improve safety. Years of meeting with auto industry, doing interviews, writing books. But it goes way beyond that now. Uber was started, partially, in front of me in a Paris snowstorm. Four years later I visited South Africa and interviewed housewives in the slums there about how deeply Uber improved their lives. This will improve them even more by reducing the cost of transportation. Both in money and lives. Yeah, Zoox beat Tesla to the market with a vehicle that has no steering controls, but that's a bigger vehicle that's more expensive to run. Yeah, Waymo beat Tesla to the street with a Robotaxi network. It's quite nice. I use it and have been interviewing every customer I can get to talk who gets out of one in San Francisco. But in the technology game, it isn't who is first that matters. Just ask Nokia, Kodak, Borland, Blackberry, AltaVista, or many other companies that are gone now like Wordperfect. I have talked with Waymo's founder, Sebastian Thrun, a few times and once we talked about what will matter in Robotaxis. We ended up asking ourselves why, say, Starbucks is such a dominant brand? We boiled it down to two things: 1. Ubiquity. 2. Consistency. It is available almost everywhere (three in one mall in Yokohama, Japan, when I visited). Ubiquitous. And it is consistent. You will get exactly the same latte in Japan as you will get at its headquarters in Seattle, or anywhere else you will find a Starbucks. Tesla will be the most ubiquitous and consistent for a variety of reasons. I once got insight into Waymo's own market research and Waymo found that the number one reason people switch ride sharing is price. Number two is experience. Eventually Tesla and Waymo will get into a price war. That will be two to five years away, but it is coming and might even start later today as we learn Tesla's pricing strategy for Cybercab. Tesla's entrance to the Robotaxi market will dramatically change transportation. And improve it. Make it safer that any human driven vehicle and it certainly is way smoother at driving than any human I've seen drive (and I've been in the car of NASCAR legend Brett Bodine and Audi taught me to race on both ice and concrete). But it goes way deeper still for me. How many arguments have I had over the years about LiDAR vs. cameras? So many, even in the AI industry, told me "you need LiDAR to have a safe autonomous car." Heck, I was told that again at NVIDIA's GTC. It's hogwash. It always has been hogwash. But people get stuck on their opinions and can't change their minds that fast. So they argue. I've had this happen thousands of times in my career. And they never apologize. Several told me on other social networks that they blocked me just because I took this stance. I won't be unblocked, I'm sure. But today proves they all were wrong. Tesla is putting on the road an autonomous vehicle that is safer than they are. Think about that. It runs only with cameras. No expensive LiDARs. Now let's talk about LiDARs one last time. Why are they bad for transportation? Cost. And you don't realize what the costs are until you meet with the people who actually build cars. Any added sensor needs more wires. More compute to handle. And disrupts air flow over the car, which makes it slightly more expensive (and noisier inside). The expenses add up. The Cybercab should be about $30,000. We'll learn the actual price later. The Waymo vehicle is easily double that. And uses more electricity to go a mile. And will have more maintainance costs. Which is why Tesla will be able to always underprice Waymo. And deliver a better experience. And give you the opportunity to own a Tesla that uses the same system to drive and put one in your garage. Something Waymo isn't setup to do. I already trust my life every day to my Tesla. Today it went around a large garbage can that had fallen into the freeway. The way it looked several other people had hit it. Mine just drove around it at high rate of speed. Wish I had thought of making a video for you. Is Robotaxi perfect? Not yet. It needs to be far more flexible, and far more available, everywhere, to make that kind of claim and there are years of regulatory fights to bring Robotaxis into many communities, sadly. Their politicians are dooming their citizens to having a less efficient and less safe system operating in their communities to protect jobs, or to take advantage of AI hate to get reelected, so we have a long road to go before the job is done. But I wanted to celebrate today. Years ago @IrenaCronin and I wrote "The Infinte Retina" where we had a whole chapter on Robaxis. Today at 4 p.m. I'll open up an audio space here on X and read the chapter so you can see just how accurate/inaccurate we were years ago before anyone was thinking about Robotaxis. It's a big day. First step in making vehicles safer is to get rid of the steering wheel. It's often what kills people in a high-speed wreck. Not having a steering wheel means having a much bigger airbag, so it is safer for you in a wreck. And Ford's head of safety told me that in a wreck humans only do the right thing about 15% of the time. The rest of the time they often don't even touch the brakes. In crisis our brains go into vapor lock. A computer doesn't have these problems. It can see a crash is unavoidable and still slam on the brakes to pull energy out of the vehicle before a wreck. Crashing at 60 mph is a lot more survivable than crashing at 80. So a little scrubbing of energy is a big deal. But Tesla's cameras see the wreck coming and pre-tension your seat belts and even fire off airbags in a much better way than without such a system. And usually it will avoid the wreck altogether in a way that humans can't. When I met some of the team building it at the We, Robot event two years ago they told me they argued about grams added to the vehicle. Many might say "it feels cheap" inside. That's because it is designed to be abused, barfed in, drinks spilled in it, among other things (you will get charged for damages, keep in mind, and there is a camera watching you. Do enough damage and you will never be picked up again. Something that you will soon regret, since all the other options will be more expensive.) And back 14 years ago when I was arguing with Mercedes engineers about this I learned just how resistant the auto industry was to include any of this technology. Heck, they even refused to put digital vents in their vehicles. Why does that matter? My wife and I had one long argument in our 24 year marriage: vents. I like the air on my face. She doesn't. So every time I would get in her car I would change the vents. Then when she got in to drive she would complain that I changed her vents. We never have that argument in a Tesla because our vent settings are saved in our account and if we get in a Robotaxi the vents are automatically set to where we each like them. I believe it still is the only Robotaxi that can do that. And everything is like that. You start listening to Skrillex on one ride and Skrillex will still be playing on your next ride. And seats automatically adjust to where you set them on previous rides. I could go on for many hours, and have, on more than 1,000 Tesla spaces I've been a part of over the past few years. Tonight I'll be on more after my book reading and watching the news being shared by a group of people who have been covering FSD and Robotaxi in more depth than I have been here (I usually focus on AI and innovative new companies). Anyway, Cybercab does something I've been waiting for the auto industry to do for decades: get rid of the steering wheel. Human drivers aren't as safe as AI driven vehicles as you will soon learn. And Robotaxis will be cheaper than owning your own car for many people, particularly those who have to commute to a close city center where parking and time wasted add up to the costs. Soon they will be available in more cities, you can sense that as Cybercabs are starting to fill up parking lots around the USA, sort of taunting us with a big release coming. It's a big day for transportation. You probably won't see another huge improvement like this in your lifetime.
    @AAMortazaviReally great and must read tweet

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    @ScobleizerWhy is Tesla Cybercab and Robotaxi so important to me? And why is today such a huge deal? (Tesla is announcing Cybercab later today in a small event in Austin). It started in 1980 and 81 when two of my high school friends were killed in car wrecks. One was a girl who marched next to me in band. I visited her home the morning after it happened and saw the pain on her dad's face. I wish I could wave a magic wand and keep that pain from other fathers. Unfortunately about 40,000 a year in USA and 1.2 million world wide meet the same fate every year. If the airline industry killed that many we would never fly again and the airline industry would shut down. Since then I've had a front-row seat on the auto industry's efforts to improve safety. Years of meeting with auto industry, doing interviews, writing books. But it goes way beyond that now. Uber was started, partially, in front of me in a Paris snowstorm. Four years later I visited South Africa and interviewed housewives in the slums there about how deeply Uber improved their lives. This will improve them even more by reducing the cost of transportation. Both in money and lives. Yeah, Zoox beat Tesla to the market with a vehicle that has no steering controls, but that's a bigger vehicle that's more expensive to run. Yeah, Waymo beat Tesla to the street with a Robotaxi network. It's quite nice. I use it and have been interviewing every customer I can get to talk who gets out of one in San Francisco. But in the technology game, it isn't who is first that matters. Just ask Nokia, Kodak, Borland, Blackberry, AltaVista, or many other companies that are gone now like Wordperfect. I have talked with Waymo's founder, Sebastian Thrun, a few times and once we talked about what will matter in Robotaxis. We ended up asking ourselves why, say, Starbucks is such a dominant brand? We boiled it down to two things: 1. Ubiquity. 2. Consistency. It is available almost everywhere (three in one mall in Yokohama, Japan, when I visited). Ubiquitous. And it is consistent. You will get exactly the same latte in Japan as you will get at its headquarters in Seattle, or anywhere else you will find a Starbucks. Tesla will be the most ubiquitous and consistent for a variety of reasons. I once got insight into Waymo's own market research and Waymo found that the number one reason people switch ride sharing is price. Number two is experience. Eventually Tesla and Waymo will get into a price war. That will be two to five years away, but it is coming and might even start later today as we learn Tesla's pricing strategy for Cybercab. Tesla's entrance to the Robotaxi market will dramatically change transportation. And improve it. Make it safer that any human driven vehicle and it certainly is way smoother at driving than any human I've seen drive (and I've been in the car of NASCAR legend Brett Bodine and Audi taught me to race on both ice and concrete). But it goes way deeper still for me. How many arguments have I had over the years about LiDAR vs. cameras? So many, even in the AI industry, told me "you need LiDAR to have a safe autonomous car." Heck, I was told that again at NVIDIA's GTC. It's hogwash. It always has been hogwash. But people get stuck on their opinions and can't change their minds that fast. So they argue. I've had this happen thousands of times in my career. And they never apologize. Several told me on other social networks that they blocked me just because I took this stance. I won't be unblocked, I'm sure. But today proves they all were wrong. Tesla is putting on the road an autonomous vehicle that is safer than they are. Think about that. It runs only with cameras. No expensive LiDARs. Now let's talk about LiDARs one last time. Why are they bad for transportation? Cost. And you don't realize what the costs are until you meet with the people who actually build cars. Any added sensor needs more wires. More compute to handle. And disrupts air flow over the car, which makes it slightly more expensive (and noisier inside). The expenses add up. The Cybercab should be about $30,000. We'll learn the actual price later. The Waymo vehicle is easily double that. And uses more electricity to go a mile. And will have more maintainance costs. Which is why Tesla will be able to always underprice Waymo. And deliver a better experience. And give you the opportunity to own a Tesla that uses the same system to drive and put one in your garage. Something Waymo isn't setup to do. I already trust my life every day to my Tesla. Today it went around a large garbage can that had fallen into the freeway. The way it looked several other people had hit it. Mine just drove around it at high rate of speed. Wish I had thought of making a video for you. Is Robotaxi perfect? Not yet. It needs to be far more flexible, and far more available, everywhere, to make that kind of claim and there are years of regulatory fights to bring Robotaxis into many communities, sadly. Their politicians are dooming their citizens to having a less efficient and less safe system operating in their communities to protect jobs, or to take advantage of AI hate to get reelected, so we have a long road to go before the job is done. But I wanted to celebrate today. Years ago @IrenaCronin and I wrote "The Infinte Retina" where we had a whole chapter on Robaxis. Today at 4 p.m. I'll open up an audio space here on X and read the chapter so you can see just how accurate/inaccurate we were years ago before anyone was thinking about Robotaxis. It's a big day. First step in making vehicles safer is to get rid of the steering wheel. It's often what kills people in a high-speed wreck. Not having a steering wheel means having a much bigger airbag, so it is safer for you in a wreck. And Ford's head of safety told me that in a wreck humans only do the right thing about 15% of the time. The rest of the time they often don't even touch the brakes. In crisis our brains go into vapor lock. A computer doesn't have these problems. It can see a crash is unavoidable and still slam on the brakes to pull energy out of the vehicle before a wreck. Crashing at 60 mph is a lot more survivable than crashing at 80. So a little scrubbing of energy is a big deal. But Tesla's cameras see the wreck coming and pre-tension your seat belts and even fire off airbags in a much better way than without such a system. And usually it will avoid the wreck altogether in a way that humans can't. When I met some of the team building it at the We, Robot event two years ago they told me they argued about grams added to the vehicle. Many might say "it feels cheap" inside. That's because it is designed to be abused, barfed in, drinks spilled in it, among other things (you will get charged for damages, keep in mind, and there is a camera watching you. Do enough damage and you will never be picked up again. Something that you will soon regret, since all the other options will be more expensive.) And back 14 years ago when I was arguing with Mercedes engineers about this I learned just how resistant the auto industry was to include any of this technology. Heck, they even refused to put digital vents in their vehicles. Why does that matter? My wife and I had one long argument in our 24 year marriage: vents. I like the air on my face. She doesn't. So every time I would get in her car I would change the vents. Then when she got in to drive she would complain that I changed her vents. We never have that argument in a Tesla because our vent settings are saved in our account and if we get in a Robotaxi the vents are automatically set to where we each like them. I believe it still is the only Robotaxi that can do that. And everything is like that. You start listening to Skrillex on one ride and Skrillex will still be playing on your next ride. And seats automatically adjust to where you set them on previous rides. I could go on for many hours, and have, on more than 1,000 Tesla spaces I've been a part of over the past few years. Tonight I'll be on more after my book reading and watching the news being shared by a group of people who have been covering FSD and Robotaxi in more depth than I have been here (I usually focus on AI and innovative new companies). Anyway, Cybercab does something I've been waiting for the auto industry to do for decades: get rid of the steering wheel. Human drivers aren't as safe as AI driven vehicles as you will soon learn. And Robotaxis will be cheaper than owning your own car for many people, particularly those who have to commute to a close city center where parking and time wasted add up to the costs. Soon they will be available in more cities, you can sense that as Cybercabs are starting to fill up parking lots around the USA, sort of taunting us with a big release coming. It's a big day for transportation. You probably won't see another huge improvement like this in your lifetime.
    @AAMortazaviReally great and must read tweet