Chris Smedley – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:04:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 First Ever Tesla Robotaxi Ride! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/first-ever-tesla-robotaxi-ride https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/first-ever-tesla-robotaxi-ride#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:04:48 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/first-ever-tesla-robotaxi-ride

Questions to inspire discussion.

Affordability and Accessibility.

💰 Q: How affordable is Tesla’s robotaxi service? A: The robotaxi service is highly affordable, with a $4.20 fare for a ride from Terablax to St. Edwards University, making it a game-changer for downtrodden areas where car ownership is unaffordable.

🌐 Q: How scalable is the robotaxi service? A: The service is highly scalable, with potential to rapidly expand the network by deploying cars in new regions, enabling access to transportation for more people in the next couple of years.

User Experience and Integration.

🎵 Q: How is the user experience integrated across Tesla services? A: Tesla offers a unified single sign-on for all services, allowing users to log in and carry over their song from their Cyber Truck to the robotaxi, enhancing user experience.

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Tesla Robotaxi Changes Everything! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-changes-everything https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-changes-everything#respond Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:12:51 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-changes-everything

Tesla’s Robotaxi has the potential to revolutionize transportation and disrupt various industries, including car ownership, urban planning, and traditional car dealerships, with its autonomous driving technology and low-cost, hassle-free ride experience ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.

Transportation Revolution.

🚕 Q: How will Tesla’s Robotaxi network change urban transportation?

A: Tesla’s Robotaxi will make personal vehicle ownership obsolete in dense cities, offering rides at 25 cents per mile that are both cost-effective and convenient, eliminating the need for parking spaces.

🚗 Q: What makes Tesla’s Cybercab unique?

A: Cybercab is designed to be the most utilitarian vehicle ever built, featuring 50% fewer parts than the Model 3, making it highly scalable for millions of rides with wireless charging and autonomous capabilities.

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EXCLUSIVE: First Tesla Robotaxi Rides Ever! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/exclusive-first-tesla-robotaxi-rides-ever https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/exclusive-first-tesla-robotaxi-rides-ever#respond Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:05:59 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/exclusive-first-tesla-robotaxi-rides-ever

Watch Herbert take one of the very FIRST EVER rides on a Tesla Robotaxi in Austin. Herbert was one of a handful of people to be selected as Early Access User…

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Post-Alcubierre Warp-Drives https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/post-alcubierre-warp-drives https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/post-alcubierre-warp-drives#respond Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:03:43 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/post-alcubierre-warp-drives

Researchers are actively exploring and revising the concept of Alcubierre warp drive, as well as alternative approaches, to potentially make superluminal travel feasible with reduced energy requirements and advanced technologies ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.

Practical Warp Drive Concepts.

🚀 Q: What is the Alcubierre warp drive? A: The Alcubierre warp drive (1994) is a superluminal travel concept within general relativity, using a warp bubble that contracts space in front and expands behind the spacecraft.

🌌 Q: How does Jose Natario’s warp drive differ from Alcubierre’s? A: Natario’s warp drive (2001) describes the warp bubble as a soliton and vector field, making it harder to visualize but potentially more mathematically robust.

🔬 Q: What is unique about Chris Van Den Broeck’s warp drive? A: Van Den Broeck’s warp drive (1999) uses a nested warp field, creating a larger interior than exterior, similar to a TARDIS, while remaining a physical solution within general relativity. Energy Requirements and Solutions.

💡 Q: How do Eric Lent’s hyperfast positive energy warp drives work? A: Lent’s warp drives (2020) are solitons capable of superluminal travel using purely positive energy densities, reopening discussions on conventional physics-based superluminal mechanisms.

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Tesla Robotaxi Vs. Waymo https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-vs-waymo https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-vs-waymo#respond Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:03:29 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-robotaxi-vs-waymo

Tesla is planning to launch a robo-taxi service in Austin, Texas, which is expected to disrupt the market with its competitive advantages in data collection, cost, and production, shifting the company’s business model towards recurring software revenue ## ## Questions to inspire discussion.

Tesla’s Robotaxi Launch.

🚗 Q: When is Tesla launching its robotaxi service? A: Tesla’s robotaxi launch is scheduled for June 22nd, marking a transformational shift from hardware sales to recurring software revenue with higher margins.

🌆 Q: How will Tesla’s robotaxi service initially roll out? A: The service will start with a small fleet of 10–20 vehicles, scaling up to multiple cities by year-end and millions of cars by next year’s end, with an invite-only system initially. Tesla vs. Waymo.

📊 Q: How does Tesla’s data collection compare to Waymo’s? A: Tesla collects 10 million miles of full self-driving data daily, compared to Waymo’s 250,000 miles, giving Tesla a significant data advantage for training AI and encountering corner cases.

🏭 Q: What production advantage does Tesla have over Waymo? A: Tesla can produce 5,000 vehicles per day, while Waymo has 1,500 vehicles with plans to add 200,000 over the next year, giving Tesla a substantial cost and scale advantage.

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DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpa-program-sets-distance-record-for-power-beaming https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpa-program-sets-distance-record-for-power-beaming#respond Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:07:57 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/darpa-program-sets-distance-record-for-power-beaming

Previously, the greatest reported distance records for an appreciable amount of optical power (1 microwatt) were 230 watts of average power at 1.7 kilometers for 25 seconds and a lesser (but undisclosed) amount of power at 3.7 kilometers.

“It is beyond a doubt that we absolutely obliterated all previously reported optical power beaming demonstrations for power and distance,” said POWER Program Manager Paul Jaffe after the results were confirmed. The DARPA-led team brought together industry and government, including the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility (HELSTF) at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range.

Energy is a fundamental requirement for military operations, and traditional means of getting energy to the edge (battlefields, disaster zones, etc.) are often incredibly slow, risky, and resource intensive. These tests, referred to as PRAD (POWER Receiver Array Demo), mark an important step towards the POWER program’s long-term goal of being able to instantly beam power from a location where it can be easily generated to wherever it’s needed, opening a novel design space for platform capabilities unbounded by fuel limitations.

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Tesla FSD CRUSHES Waymo in Report https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-fsd-crushes-waymo-in-report https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-fsd-crushes-waymo-in-report#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:11:00 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/tesla-fsd-crushes-waymo-in-report

Questions to inspire discussion.

A: Tesla is testing FSD in the Arctic and awaiting regulatory approval for cities like Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome.

🇸🇪 Q: Why was FSD testing denied in Stockholm?

A: Stockholm denied FSD testing due to risks for infrastructure and pressure from ongoing innovation tasks.

🤖 Q: What improvements are expected in Tesla’s Grok AI?

A: Grok 3.5 will be trained on video data from Tesla cars and Optimus robots, enabling it to understand the world and perform tasks like dropping off passengers.

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How to Build in Space — for Life on Earth https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/how-to-build-in-space-for-life-on-earth https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/how-to-build-in-space-for-life-on-earth#respond Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:11:50 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/how-to-build-in-space-for-life-on-earth

🏗 Q: What are the potential benefits of off-worlding heavy industry to space?

A: Space-based manufacturing can produce sustainable energy, food, and water for a trillion-dollar space economy, allowing Earth to recover as a garden planet for future generations.

Space-Based Manufacturing.

🧬 Q: How can microgravity in low-Earth orbit advance biotech manufacturing?

A: Enable unique manufacturing of protein crystals, tissues, and novel drugs impossible on Earth, with high-throughput production of exceptional quality organoids for Alzheimer’s and cancer drug testing.

☀ Q: How can space-based solar power solve Earth’s energy challenges?

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Google’s AlphaEvolve: The Al That Will Change EVERYTHING in the Next 24 Months https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/googles-alphaevolve-the-al-that-will-change-everything-in-the-next-24-months https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/googles-alphaevolve-the-al-that-will-change-everything-in-the-next-24-months#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:23:49 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/googles-alphaevolve-the-al-that-will-change-everything-in-the-next-24-months

Julia McCoy

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Live GTC Paris Keynote at VivaTech 2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-live-gtc-paris-keynote-at-vivatech-2025 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-live-gtc-paris-keynote-at-vivatech-2025#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 11:23:35 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2025/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-live-gtc-paris-keynote-at-vivatech-2025

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