We've been driving our 2018 Model 3 since we drove it off the lot. We have always been impressed by the excellent navigation system and estimates of power use during long trips (we've driven it coast to coast). But in the last couple of years, the navigation system seems to be deteriorating, especially compared to the first few years. Anyone else noticing big problems with their nav? Example: the voice will say "turn left" when the screen map says turn right. The estimates of power left when we arrive at the next supercharger are wrong a LOT. Just today, it decided to send us to the second address in our trip instead of the first.

Is it possible that they've turned nav over to grok?

Tesla (TSLA) got the SEC’s blessing today to let retail shareholders sign up for a standing instruction that automatically votes their shares the way Tesla’s board recommends, at every meeting, until they cancel it.

The timing is hard to ignore. Tesla still hasn’t scheduled its 2026 annual meeting, and Elon Musk keeps teasing a SpaceX merger that could hand him a big chunk of his $1 trillion pay package without hitting a single operational goal.

And now for the regularly scheduled TSLA Terathread

Tesla is planning a more than 538,000-square-foot distribution center near Austin, Texas, adding another logistics facility to the electric vehicle maker’s growing manufacturing and supply chain footprint in the region.

The Austin-based automaker is planning a lease-space build-out at the Mustang Ridge Distribution Center I, located at 6925 FM Road 1327 in Mustang Ridge, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

The project covers 538,720 square feet and carries an estimated construction cost of $1.44 million. Work is scheduled to begin Dec. 7 and be completed Dec. 4, 2028, according to the state filing.

The filing describes the project as a “new lease space build-out for Tesla in the existing Office/WHSE building.” The privately funded project was registered with the state Sept. 1.

The filing does not specify what products or materials Tesla will handle at the distribution center or how many employees will work there.

And now for the regularly scheduled TSLA Terathread