Good morning.

Technological innovation is extremely messy.

Because it's not only about the technology - it's us - the humans- who are making the mess. It happened when cars replaced the horse and cart , it happened when the internet arrived.

Some people made a REAL fool of themselves.

This is a great reason to again show this but look at this 1999 BBC interview with David Bowie. David Bowie has understood the technology and can see where this is going. As usual , the interviewer , the public broadcaster does not. "It's just a tool, isn't it ?"

And the army of fools (there's a lot of them) is again in full swing but this time- because of social media- all the fools have a voice.

We're going to let the "Oh my god AI is going to kill us all" debate from the last two weeks rest a bit and looking into an adjacent technology. Let's project this unto self-driving cars. The technology not only exists, it's essentially at 100% capability.

Yes, might be controversial to you but self-driving cars are essentially a problem that is solved.

Waymo cars have been roaming the streets of San Francisco and Austin for years now and last month we saw Tesla deploying their cybercabs into Austin. And what is special about them is that Tesla is so confident in the capabilities of the car they have removed the pedals and the steering wheel.

The FSD (Full Self-Driving) software works perfectly. It sees more than any human can see, never gets tired, is never distracted. The car can basically operate 24/7 - when the charger is almost depleted it parks can autocharge in special charging booths.

In regular Teslas you can find the same software - Tesla drivers from the US and Canada have been enjoying this for a few years now. Cars are basically driving themselves. Sure - in tricky situations like roadworks it might get confused but with every update Tesla makes it gets better and better.

In fact , in Australia, insurance companies will offer you a 30% discount on your car insurance if you use FSD. Insurance companies are not charities. They are running the numbers and they have understood that FSD is up to 7x safer than the most prudent human driver. Even with the discount they will still profit. The reality is you probably won't need insurance when using it.

BUT, Elon Musk has done Tesla no favors by spending most of 2024 and 2025 trying to become the world's most hated person. This is why you got this phenomenon of people putting stickers on their Tesla's saying "I bought this before Elon went crazy".

Hence, it put all of us Tesla drivers without a sticker in the "potential nazi"-category.

Beyond being active in USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea FSD is now approved in six European countries : The Netherlands, Belgium, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark and since last week Slovenia.

Perfect safety record across those EU countries since approval - and on October 6 there's a EU-wide vote that will decide if this technology is to be approved across the entire European Union.

To be clear this is FSD Supervised. Not like in the Robotaxi where it's hands off - you still have to actively scan the road and be attentive. And in fact, if you fail to do that it will deactivate.

I've been testing it out myself and the technology is beyond amazing. I have essentially now quit driving. Sure, it has some quirks (cant seem to find my driveway) and it seems to favor the left lane on the highway (i found out you can guide it back just by putting on the turn signal). But still ... the resistance against this is real.

Just like some people have an irrational hate for electric vehicles, people have an irrational fear of not driving themselves EVEN WHEN IT IS PROVEN TO BE MUCH MUCH SAFER than regular DIY driving.

They are not even willing to try even when it would make their lives better.

On top of that there are the regulators and politicians. In the EU the car lobby led by brands like BMW, Audi and others are actively trying to block Tesla from deploying FSD in Europe.

Because people will understand sooner or later that the technology in a BMW is nowhere close to what Tesla is capable of. It's "nowhere close" by an exponential factor.

But the most damaging thing that i see occuring is that the mainstream media is actively trying to block FSD.

This week , on the Flemish government subsidied public tv station there was a documentary detailing all the deaths that happened with "Tesla's self-driving technology". When you look at that documentary nothing is said about FSD - it's all about the "autopilot" technology from 2017-2018. And even then it was a fringe case.

A "journalist" wrote an article in the same vein titled: "If you ever considered getting into a self-driving Tesla or are driving next to one , you better watch this documentary". Next to the article there's a picture of Elon Musk wearing a suit that is not that far from a certain type of WWII uniform.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/09/02/wat-gebeurt-er-als-niet-alleen-je-chatbot-hallucineert-maar-ook/

When I saw that exact same picture show up in anti-Tesla articles in Sweden, France and Germany I realized what this was : a coordinated campaign against Tesla leading up to the October 5 vote.

There's not a lot of advantages of getting older but if there is one is that you slowly start to see how the world works.

Our Belgian public broadcaster is either being used by a car lobby to actively discredit a potentially groundbreaking technology (i have no proof) or even worse they are allowing a journalist to spew lies because of his hatred of the person Elon Musk. On top of that , it says in his profile the journalist specializes in "disinformation". You cannot make this up.

In both cases I'd like to have my tax money back please.

We have around 500 traffic deaths in Belgium every year. Everyone in Belgium knew someone who died in traffic. That would become a thing of the past. There is no "phantom breaking" on Teslas in 2026. FSD does not “hallucinate”.

Stop comparing the AI in a self-driving car with an LLM like Claude or ChatGPT. It’s not the same !

If we cannot see past our biases and preferences to acknowledge this for what it really is : a groundbreaking technology and a HUGE improvement for our every day life, how can we hope to achieve anything here?

Why does everything have to be a big fight?

Self-driving cars are here. The future is here.

It's a better future.

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