Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great.

X ^ | 11/01/2025 | Elon Musk

[SmokingJoe]

Just finished a long AI5 design review with the Tesla California and Texas chip engineers. It’s going to be great.

And AI6 and AI7 will follow in fast succession.

AI8 will be out of this world.

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KEYWORDS: ai; automotive; musk; tech; tesla; texas

[MikelTackNailer]

Soon, it may become common to see the human in the driver’s seat napping or dining while the car does all the work. Complete and total confidence in the machine will be a major selling point.

And a godsend to alcoholics who will deny the state DUI monies it sees as rightly theirs, along with minimizing/eliminating the legal bills and obligations that come with it. It's just you and your liver fighting for dominance.

Seriously though, this chip development combined with the NeuroLink technology Musk seems to have shelved, would enable drivers, pilots and more near-instantaneous command of controls and systems that are currently limited by the time lag between thought and the nervous system's manipulation of our extremities.

Like in the movie "Firefox" where a pilot was smuggled into an opposing country to steal a jet fighter that could do just that - instantly connect a mind to all it's controls. That's like the missing link between conventional and still-developing drone warfare: human minds in the field unhampered by transmission delay and technological obfuscation of sensory input.

How cool would it be to not only send robots to Mars but mentally inhabit them as well when missions demand more than programming and autonomous A.I., much like modern surgeons can operate on people remotely via the combination of Virtual Reality and specialized robots acting as extensions of themselves?

But right now ol' Elon would do himself a favor by putting heads-up displays into Tesla windshields so drivers wouldn't have to keep looking down and right at a console for critical information. The media system usually in that spot is distracting enough.

[SmokingJoe]

8 Chinese flying cars.

https://youtu.be/8xmxErvhX28?si=l2pNlga9yv2VijRJ

[logi_cal869]

Not so fast:

https://teslanorth.com/2025/06/29/neuralink-summer-2025-update/

Far from a cheerleader for Musk, I do see clues as to where he’s going.

But no argument: In driver-controlled vehicles the so-called ‘digital cockpit’ for road vehicles is a trainwreck and a travesty of good vehicular engineering.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I can already see Musk headin’ to Mars with some smokin’-hot women and a bunch of robots! Adios, muchachos!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“ the so-called ‘digital cockpit’ for road vehicles is a trainwreck”

Yep.

[PIF]

Yes Yes but will they braked for a kitty running across the road?

[PIF]

How cool would it be to not only send robots to Mars but mentally inhabit them as well when missions demand more than programming and autonomous A.I.

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Except for the 4 - 48 minute communications lag - time depends on varying distance between the two.

[SmokingJoe]

Yes.
Musk actually mentioned that on X last week.

[chaosagent]

Like in the movie "Firefox" where a pilot was smuggled into an opposing country to steal a jet fighter that could do just that - instantly connect a mind to all it's controls.

Yes, but it only worked when Clint thought in Russian.

[MIA_eccl1212]

Yes, but doesn’t that require a substantial amount of Vodka?

[MikelTackNailer]

Except for the 4 - 48 minute communications lag - time depends on varying distance between the two.

I was thinking (ruh roh) about a string of relay stations set along the way between Earth and Mars. Then I considered the different rates of orbit, the sun getting in the way...but that's a start.

And I meant human interface for tasks where the time lag wasn't a large factor, things requiring decision-making that you don't want to leave to an unfeeling automaton. Mark Zuckerberg has enough to do here, anyway.

[ridesthemiles]

OH—GREAT-—

WE CANNOT GET COMPLIANCE WITH NORMAL CARS & DRIVERS WHO ARE ILLEGAL—DRUNK—WHATEVER.

NOW THE DMV HAS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO LICENSE A DRIVER OF A FLYING CAR??????????? WHAT ABOUT INSURANCE????//

OR WILL IT BE A PILOT’S LICENSE???

WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS !!!!

[MikelTackNailer]

Yes, but it only worked (Firefox) when Clint thought in Russian.

He struggled with that but once he squinted at the console it fell in line like most humans do. That's his mutant power.

[PIF]

Well if there where a lot of them, they could mitigate the Sun problem. Or they could move the Sun out of the way - either would work. 😎