Elon: Wind Down Falcon Once Starship Flies Several Times a Week

Farzad boosted Elon's Falcon-to-Starship shift, a WSJ drive in FSD, and the idea of a Tesla that drops you off and keeps looping.

Falcon winds down after Starship is weekly-reliable

Elon, Aug. 22, replying on X: once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and production resources to Starship to get launch rate to several times per day, which means winding down Falcon. That is a sequence he described, not a shutdown date and not a 2026 flight count. Farzad reposted it.

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A WSJ critic called FSD amazing. Sample of one.

Sawyer posted excerpts from Wall Street Journal critic Dan Neil on Tesla FSD (Supervised). Neil wrote that by the end of the second hour he was bewitched, that FSD is amazing, and that he is a sample group of one with scant evidence. He said mile by mile it started to earn his confidence in rush-hour interstate traffic: stopping and following distances, lane centering, acceleration, steering, and braking. Farzad reposted Sawyer. This is one critic's drive, not a Tesla safety study.

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Drop off. Loop. Come back when unsupervised is out.

Basecamp's Jason Fried wrote that he could not find a parking spot in a busy small town and wished he could drop himself off, tell the Tesla when to pick him up, and let the car loop instead of parking. Farzad: That's 100% happening once unsupervised is out. That is Farzad's product read, not a Tesla feature announcement.

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Wheels stay on consumer Cybercabs for now. That's the thesis.

teslayoda: you can geofence a Robotaxi service, but it is much harder to geofence privately owned vehicles. That is why, in teslayoda's telling, Farzad thinks consumer Cybercabs would need steering wheels and pedals at least in the near term. Farzad asked the follow-up: likelihood the entire US allows unlimited privately owned vehicles with no steering wheel and no pedals. A thesis, not a Tesla spec sheet.

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