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New Model Y Gets High Marks From a Critic Musk Respects | Tesla News

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Tesla Inc. ’s new Model Y has what people have come to expect from Elon Musk’s cars: It’s lightning quick, handles nicely and has better electronic gadgetry than its competitors. Unlike past Tesla offerings, early versions are rolling off the assembly line looking more like you’d expect from a company with a handle on the finer points of car building, according to Sandy Munro. The manufacturing consultant who’s been tearing cars apart piece-by-piece for three decades offered his initial impressions before digging into the Model Y that his shop took delivery of this week. “I don’t have much negative to say,” Munro said in an interview. “It’s much better than the  Model 3  when we got it. We found problems, but the average car buyer won’t even see these things.” Munro and his eponymous firm have been well known for years among Detroit’s automotive engineers for their in-depth analysis of hundreds of cars from virtually every manufacturer. He gained wider notoriety by
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Tesla New York gigafactory will reopen for ventilator production

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Elon Musk   said Wednesday that the company’s factory in Buffalo, New York will open “as soon as humanly possible” to produce ventilators that are in short supply due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. His comments, which were made Wednesday via Twitter, follows previous statements by the CEO outlining plans to either donate ventilators or work to increase production of the critical piece of medical equipment needed for patients who are hospitalized with COVID-19, a respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. COVID-19 attacks the lungs and can cause acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia. And since there is no clinically proven treatment yet, ventilators are relied upon to help people breathe and fight the disease. There are about 160,000 ventilators in the United States and another 12,700 in the National Strategic Supply, the  NYT reported . Elon Musk ✔ @elonmusk  ·  16 h Replying to @flcnhvy @Tesla Making good progress. We will
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SpaceX is hiring Welders to ramp up production of stainless steel Starship

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The coronavirus pandemic isn't shrinking every part of the job market. For example, SpaceX is looking to hire lots of folks to help ramp up production and testing of its ambitious Starship Mars-colonizing architecture over the coming months — and the company recently issued a public recruiting pitch. "The design goal for Starship is three flights per day on average [per ship], which equates to roughly 1,000 flights per year at greater than 100 tons per flight. This means every 10 ships would yield 1 megaton per year to orbit," Jessica Anderson, a lead manufacturing engineer at SpaceX, said last week during the launch webcast for the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites. "This is a significant effort, and we are looking for highly skilled engineers and welders to help us make this a reality," Anderson added. "If you're interested in joining the team, please take a look at SpaceX.com/careers." At the moment, that websit
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Elon Musk Tells Staff: Stay Home if You Want, but I Won’t

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Billionaire Elon Musk has told his employees at Tesla that they can stay at home if they’re worried about the novel coronavirus outbreak, but that he intends to keep going to work. According to the Los Angeles Times, Tesla’s Fremont, California, electric vehicle assembly plant, which employs about 10,000 people, will remain open despite a lockdown issued by six Bay Area counties. That’s because it’s been deemed to be an “essential business” by officials, although it’s unclear why a vehicle manufacturer has been given that status. Musk told employees in a Monday night email: “If you feel the slightest bit ill or even uncomfortable, please do not feel obligated to come to work.” However, he added: “My frank opinion is that the harm from the coronavirus panic far exceeds that of the virus itself.” He said COVID-19 cases “will not exceed 0.1 percent of the population,” and told staff: “I will personally be at work, but that’s just me.” One unnamed employee told the Times: “I’m going in
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Neuralink AI tech can solve autism and schizophrenia

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is applied frequently to a wide range of programs and apps in various sectors. Researchers have explored the idea of using AI to diagnose and help people with autism to overcome limitations and thrive. Fortunately, AI-based therapies are now in development to help children with ASD. Musk adds autism spectrum disorder! Recently, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, discussed his AI technology company Neuralink on the Artificial Intelligence podcast with Lex Fridman. According to him, Neuralink will be able to “solve” schizophrenia and autism. Previously, Elon Musk has suggested that his AI company could help people with conditions like Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia, but now he has added autism spectrum disorder into the list as well.  Musk said:  So Neuralink, I think, at first will solve a lot of brain-related diseases. So could be anything from like autism, schizophrenia, memory loss — like everyone experiences memory loss at certai
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink

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By    Donovan Alexander Neuralink/YouTube Sure you know just about everything about  Tesla  and  SpaceX , but how much do you know about Elon Musk’s Neuralink start-up? Out of the many eccentric projects that Musk is currently working on, Neuralink definitely takes the cake. The ambitious start-up seems to be working on something straight out of a science fiction film. If Neuralink accomplishes its goal, the company could end up ushering in a new age of "superhuman cognition." But, enough with the suspense. What exactly is the Neuralink company working on?  Neuralink  is a company set up by Elon Musk in 2016 that is exploring the human brain and how it can be connected to a computer interface. Operating at a much smaller scale than Tesla or SpaceX, this conceptual startup aims to use this brain-machine interface to integrate humans with artificial intelligence by surgically implanting processors into our brains with a procedure that is said to be no more in
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