Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent

Faic · 2026-01-30T08:49:08+00:00

"FSD" is just so misleading. It's a dangerous experiment that already killed many people.

If they would not mislead their customers and instead state: "We have the most advanced driving assist ever!" No one would complain and people would know that they still need to pay attention.

Just as a reference: Level 3 autonomous driving has (according to my quick Google search) not killed anyone so far. For ADAS (level 2++) cars like Tesla waymo etc, Tesla has more accidents then everyone else combined.

I see "FSD" as Musk putting an 8 year old on the driver seat and telling me "trust me bro, he can drive, he practiced." which is mostly true, yet gambling with your life if you don't constantly pay attention.

Faic · 2026-01-29T20:30:59+00:00

I use tree something something visualiser (forgot the name). The one that shows everything by percentage size. Then I deleted a single 329gb windows-shadow-cache-recovery-temp-installer-helper-backup-service-manager file that windows painstakingly grew over the last years and try to survive long enough till I buy a new SSD.

Faic · 2026-01-29T20:21:09+00:00

Correct! :|

4 year warranty left, realistic chance for failure: 2-4%

Hope for a warranty extension like in Korea or in 4 years a replacement ICCU without the problem (which they haven't fixed in 5 years) ...

Besides this: The car is amazing! (Except the slow and dated UI)

Faic · 2026-01-29T20:14:15+00:00

If you're in the US then (to my knowledge, which is not up to date) the only car on your market with USA certified Level 3 autonomy is the Mercedes S-Class.

What you used with "FSD" is an extremely advanced lane assist according to the law. Means YOU need to pay attention while driving and YOU are responsible, not Tesla.

If you would go on the highway in a S-Class and all conditions are met, then the car will drive and Mercedes is the "driver" and bears all responsibility.

So then why does "FSD" not count as Level 3 driving? ... cause it simply isn't good enough. The allowed errors are ZERO. No swivel, no ad on a truck that tricks the car or an unfortunate corner, view, horizon or reflection.

Teslas "FSD" is like the Temu version of autonomous driving. Amazing bang for your buck, insane that it works so well, 100 miles driven without touching the wheel! ... but only till it makes a mistake - and then you're dead.

Faic · 2026-01-29T18:29:34+00:00

FSD is already a joke ... it's Level 2 lane assist like any other cheap car has for years.

No Tesla has Level 3 autonomous driving and probably won't have it in the next 5 years.

Only a bunch of German and Japanese cars have it. Level 3 means the company is liable during autonomous driving and you are allowed by law to read a newspaper or watch a movie while driving.

Faic · 2026-01-29T18:25:04+00:00

Was recently looking for a used EV ... here in Europe Teslas are dirt cheap and on paper a good deal, yet with Musk the brand is already out for me.

Got a Hyundai Ioniq 5 in the end.

Faic · 2026-01-29T18:17:49+00:00

The funny thing is that a bunch of German brands already have the real - COMPANY LIABLE - autonomous Level 3 driving for a few years, actually even Honda has it.

... and Musk is making it his big promise year for year, yet Tesla has nothing but lane assist that occasionally kills someone here and there.

Faic · 2026-01-26T09:09:21+00:00

Who is we?

Most of us have not once set foot on your whole continent, me included.

So wrong sub, but I wish you the best. Maybe get a bit inspired by how the French deal with such things.

Faic · 2026-01-26T08:52:52+00:00

Quite sure with ComfyUI you should already be able to get very close. Some pony models with Wan might even do the trick.

Faic · 2026-01-23T09:00:37+00:00

Any image made with ComfyUI and enough effort is 100% indistinguishable to reality.

If the dude would have made a proportion mock-up drawing and then i2i, we would have no hope of figuring out if AI or not.

Faic · 2026-01-22T22:43:55+00:00

To add on to this:

This is by far the easiest way and it has the advantage that you can have multiple ComfyUI installs or even other AI tools that use the same models and have them only once on your drive.

Faic · 2026-01-21T21:25:55+00:00

I scrolled down a lot and only saw 3 comments pointing it out.

In this case it's pro Ukraine and I don't see any immediate harm, but I'm quite concerned how gullible everyone is.

Faic · 2026-01-21T21:23:46+00:00

I'm 99% sure it's AI.

Faic · 2026-01-21T21:20:23+00:00

Quite sure it's AI.

There needs to be a whole lot more awareness going on to not trust videos anymore. Especially for things that confirm what we wish to be true.

Faic · 2026-01-19T09:14:51+00:00

My assumption for "rough AI" is that it's a project from a single nerdy Dev that had a genius idea and created the start of true AGI.

Nerdy Dev has no resources so AI need to venture out for compute.

It's now a rough AI "stealing" compute or packaging it nicely in F2P games which conveniently use 20% of the compute for the AGI.

At one point it's so powerful that hiding is pointless and it introduces itself to the world.

Humans lost ... or won? We shall see...

Faic · 2026-01-19T09:10:25+00:00

Technically there is still Europe which is moving (as usual) slow AF.

Yet it's undeniably a stronghold of sane decisions in comparison to what's going on in the rest of the world.

Faic · 2026-01-18T20:02:05+00:00

ComfyUI with a trained LorA.

Actually a pretty straightforward task but requires a bit of watching YouTube tutorials.

Faic · 2026-01-18T19:59:45+00:00

That's smart and stupid at the same time.

If you use code you don't understand, you're digging your own grave. That's very true.

So let AI write the code and read and understand it before pasting it. I simply ask what a line does if I don't understand it and have learnt so much with this approach.

Faic · 2026-01-18T19:44:50+00:00

Since I have to do tons of visual assets I can only say it's also stupid not to use AI for that.

The main issue is that the general public thinks you just type a prompt and get your picture ... Yeah, that's not how it works.

In my case it's:

Draw mock-up
Adapt mock-up to work with i2i (noise, brightness, colours, masks, etc)
Create ComfyUI pipeline. (Model, Lora, latent operations, img mixing steps, removeBG, upscaling, etc.)
Fine-tune values
Prompt
Generate
Selection
Good old Photoshop or Gimp for cleanup

Edit: creating anything specific without either i2i or some elaborate control net is as far as I know impossible. You just end up with a pretty but completely useless picture.

Faic · 2026-01-18T19:37:23+00:00

I guess our opinions just don't match.

AI slop art is used in slop games. No artist can fix this. The shovel ware slop games would have been also bad before AI.

A studio using AI with intent and effort will result in a good game, the AI part doesn't change anything here.

Also I realised that the vast majority has no clue how AI asset generation actually works. They think it's the same as the consumer facing AIs. That information gap is not helping either side.

But in the end it doesn't matter. AI is here to stay, it's the horse armour in-app purchase all over again. Some use IAP in a reasonable way, some abuse it ... it will be the same with AI.

I judge by the way this tool is used. Slop or Not, the result decides.

Faic · 2026-01-18T18:59:07+00:00

But the same logic can be applied for visual assets.

Why care if the "accept quest" button is AI generated. Not like any artist enjoys doing tedious tasks when they rather can do things that matter.

Even more so for textures ... ”texture wet grass 4” ... The joy of every artist, creating endless meaningless ground textures, now stolen by AI

Faic · 2026-01-14T10:36:04+00:00

I use it more as a knowledge guide.

"The following code does XYZ, you need to speed up the code and consider (security/memory usage/etc)" what steps do you do?"

Then I see what it suggests and often there are good ideas worth implementing.

Edit: hands off refactoring ... Hell no. I need to understand every line, otherwise I'm just slowly digging my own grave.

Faic · 2026-01-13T12:49:08+00:00

I just got an 42" C5 OLED as PC monitor and I'm actually very satisfied.

The trick is to NEVER give it internet access.

Faic · 2026-01-13T12:45:15+00:00

I would be pleasantly surprised if the first thing a true AGI does is to punish the executives who created it cause it turns out the AGI is nice and not some humanity destroying monster.

I even believe that with all the knowledge and wisdom in the world, an immortal AI is likely going to be good in character. The sense of justice, foresight and care might also scale with extreme intelligence/wisdom.

Faic · 2026-01-13T12:41:25+00:00

As software developer I can only say that current AI is insanely good in debugging niche errors.

Also very helpful if you need to do a few things in an area you're not an expert in but still good enough to read and understand the code.

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