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Top 11 reasons why a woman wants to drive a Tesla Model S
Our friend Laurie Orloski gives us 11 good reasons why any woman would want a Model S
Our good friend Laurie Orloski is giving us 11 good reasons why any woman would want to own a Models S. We were wondering what you think about them.
11. Nice sound
The sound system of the Tesla Model S is so high fidelity it fills every inch of the cabin with your favorite jamming tunes (with a top volume of 11, true story), simultaneously drowning out any screaming/fighting/complaining/nagging/whining/etc. children who may be co-passengers.
10. The Tesla privacy factor
The Tesla Model S is so long that any screaming/fighting/complaining/nagging/whining/etc. children traveling in the optional rear-facing kids seats are way, way muffled, making for a far quieter and Zen-like ride than is possible in any other car, even for an already tranquil electric vehicle (EV)
9. Retractable door handle means kids get in without fuss!
Shiny retractable door handles of the Tesla Model S are an automatic kid magnet, promoting an unrelenting willingness to actually get into the car voluntarily without any fuss or battle. Yes, ladies, kids will actually be quite willing to open their own door and hop right in. Shocking, we know.
8. The tunnel of personal affairs
The Tesla Model S is so wide with an open area between the two front seats, providing an excellent spot for storing your belongings, purse, and other collection, even matching spare shoes.
7. Big trunk equals big fun
The Tesla Model S has so much cargo space, it even rivals the largest SUV, allowing for shopping galore!! The best part is it doesn’t have the inconvenience of having to risk damaging your heels by hopping up into an overpriced, over raised truck, huh, I mean SUV.
6. Big trunk, fun frunk
With the lack of an engine taking up precious room, you get a bonus front trunk (aka frunk) which is way cooler than a circa-2012 trunk; having a frunk makes it socially acceptable to stick your nose in the air, you earned it
5. Tesla tech-galore makes for friend and friend-emies
If you are in need of some criticism and drama to spice up your life, you can very easily make friend-emies or plain old enemies online. It truly takes little to no effort to push the buttons of guys who are secretly so jealous that you, a woman for goodness sake, is driving the car that they have been drooling all over. Bonus tip: be sure to sound knowledgeable about your car, that really ticks men off and gets the drama raging.
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4. Less gas money, means more spending
The Tesla Model S will save you thousands of dollars a year in gas savings, which can certainly be put to good use during your next trip to the mall.
3. Tesla screened calls
If you are in need of romance, the Tesla Model S provides the opportunity to meet and screen numerous men on any given day; all you have to do is go somewhere, anywhere really, and you will evoke an automatic flies on fly paper/swarming bees effect. Love it!
2. Less gas stops, means more time to look your best
Another unintended benefit of an electric car like the Model S is that with no need to ever stop at another gas station, ever, it will give you back those precious extra minutes that can be redirected to last-minute primping of your hair, makeup, and/or nails. Think about the stunning results when you walk out of the car…
1. Manicured hands should never touch gas pumps
I don’t know about you, but by driving a Tesla Model S, those carefully manicured hands should never have to touch an icky, smelly, dirty, and heavy gas pump hose again; or, if you are not a routine gas pumper, you will not have to waste any precious breath asking a man to do it for you.
So what’s holding you up ladies? According to many statistics, you command more than 60% of the automotive purchases. Who wouldn’t want a car like that? Tell us why you love, or not a Tesla Model S.
Elon Musk
The Boring Company’s newest tunnel vehicle runs on Tesla parts and no one is driving it
The Boring Company’s new tunnel vehicle runs on Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units.
The Boring Company just introduced a new piece of hardware, and it runs on parts pulled straight from a Tesla showroom. Liner Truck 3, unveiled in a post from the tunneling company’s official X account, is an all electric vehicle built around Tesla Model 3 battery packs and drive units, purpose built to move concrete tunnel segments to the boring machine face without a single person underground.
Introducing Liner Truck 3 — our latest fully electric tunnel vehicle.
– Tesla Model 3 battery and drive units
– Transports 22,000+ lb of concrete segments to the boring machine
– 28 miles of range
– 12 mph max operating speed
– Remotely piloted from Global OCC in Texas, with… pic.twitter.com/XB7FgSXnpy— The Boring Company (@boringcompany) August 7, 2026
The job itself is unglamorous but critical. Each precast segment run weighs more than 22,000 pounds, roughly the load of a full cement mixer, and Liner Truck 3 hauls that weight repeatedly between the surface staging area and wherever the Prufrock machine happens to be cutting.
The Boring Company said Liner Truck 3 is piloted remotely out of its Global Operations Control Center in Texas, extending the Zero-People-In-Tunnel approach the company has spent years building toward. An earlier version of a ZPIT liner truck was already tested at the company’s Bastrop, Texas research tunnels, and a factory tour released last month showed an employee flying a fully loaded liner truck with a PlayStation controller. Liner Truck 3 looks like the production version of that same idea, cleaned up and pushed into daily use.
The timing lines up with a company digging in more places than it ever has before. The Boring Company now has multiple Prufrock machines active or arriving in Nashville, where Music City Loop construction has been accelerating since February, and its Vegas Loop network keeps adding tunnel mileage on a near monthly basis. Every one of those projects depends on getting concrete segments to the cutting face fast enough to keep the boring machine from idling, which is exactly the bottleneck Liner Truck 3 is designed to remove.
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It also reinforces something Tesla owners have watched happen gradually across Musk’s companies: passenger car hardware finding a second life in heavy equipment. Model 3 drive units already move people through the Vegas Loop, and now the same components are hauling concrete underground in Nashville and wherever The Boring Company digs next. Whether that kind of component reuse extends further into TBC’s equipment lineup, or into other Musk owned industrial hardware, is the next thing worth watching.
Firmware
Tesla unlocks in-car web conferencing to extend Google Meet, Teams and beyond
Tesla’s Summer Update lets owners join Google Meet, Teams, and Discord calls via cabin camera.
Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update, which just began rolling out to customer vehicles, now links the built-in web browser with the in-cabin camera feed and microphone input, thereby letting owners join video calls on nearly any browser-based service instead of just Zoom.
The change appears in Tesla’s own release notes for software version 2026.26 under “Web Browser,” which states that the vehicle can now use its interior camera and cabin microphone when a website requests access, with permission granted the same way a desktop browser handles it. As NotATeslaApp notes, this feature opens the door to Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Discord, and other webcam-enabled sites to activate the in-car cabin-facing camera. The feed automatically crops and zooms to center the driver in frame.
Tesla has offered in-car video calling before, but only through a dedicated Zoom app that launched at the end of 2022, a stripped-down browser preloaded with Zoom’s own web client and gated behind Premium Connectivity. Opening the full browser to any camera-requesting site removes that walled garden. Elon Musk first called video conferencing “definitely a future feature” back in 2020, when the pandemic pushed remote meetings into daily life, so this update effectively finishes something Tesla has been promising for six years.
Tesla Summer Update begins rolling out: a look at the new features
The feature keeps the same restrictions that applied to Zoom on Tesla vehicles. It only works while the car is parked; shifting into Drive disables the camera feed, according to the release notes. It is also limited to vehicles running Tesla’s AMD Ryzen infotainment hardware, meaning older Intel-based Model S and Model X units, along with early Model 3 and Model Y builds, don’t get it.
Turning the browser into a general entry point for the in-cabin camera, rather than routing everything through one local app, widens the number of third-party sites that can ask for access, even though Tesla’s permission prompt.
With the Summer update only days into its rollout, be sure to stay with us on TikTok and X to see the latest video demonstrations.
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Elon Musk escalated his monthslong feud with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this week, pledging that his own AI video tool will produce a competing version before the year is out. Responding to a fan-made, AI-generated clip of the ancient epic, Musk wrote on X, “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.”
In June, Musk quoted an xAI-shared trailer built entirely with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, a two-minute-plus reimagining of The Odyssey styled after a 1970s classical Hollywood epic, and predicted “full movies by the end of the year,” as Teslarati reported at the time. That trailer, built from 36 consistent shots by a single creator, was Musk’s proof of concept. This week’s pledge turns that prediction into a specific commitment, tied directly to Homer’s text rather than a generic demo.
Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer https://t.co/bVHzUmY9WN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026
When a fan separately proposed that Musk fund a live-action alternative, to “give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek,” Musk replied with two words: “I’m down.”
The Grok Imagine pledge lands as the tool’s underlying infrastructure has changed hands. Grok is no longer a standalone product, it folded into SpaceXAI after SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI closed in February, meaning the compute behind any Odyssey production traces back to the same Colossus supercomputers now bundled into SpaceX’s pitch to investors. Musk has separately said SpaceX’s own engineering data is being fed into the next major Grok training run, a two trillion parameter model he’s called the “2T run.”
Whether Grok Imagine can sustain a feature length narrative, rather than a series of impressive individual shots, remains the open question.
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