Monday, March 09, 2026

Ret. General Jack Keane discusses the ‘condition-based’ objectives of Operation Epic Fury and Iran’s response.

 


Tesla Full Self Driving v14 -- The Next Leap Forward -- It is Amazing

Tesla Full Self-Driving v14 -- The Next Leap Forward


I use Tesla FSD everyday, and it is excellent. Tesla is far ahead of other companies that hope to build self-driving cars. We are at the point where Tesla's technology is ahead of the approval process of USA States evaluating this amazing technology. 

Once you use FSD, you quickly realize that it is already safer than any human driver. The only problem that may occur, is with the Tesla Navigation system taking you to the wrong location or parking lot.
This is not the fault of the FSD system, and most of the time the car goes to the correct location. FSD will take you to a Tesla charging station and park perfectly.

One important tip that I have learned, is if you trying to make a left turn across a busy street, you should use the turn signal to tell the FSD to turn right, and then it will make a u-turn when possible. Just like a human driver would do in congested traffic. 


Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) Version 14 marks one of the biggest overhauls yet in the company’s push toward true vehicle autonomy. According to CEO Elon Musk, this update “feels like a quantum leap” — powered by a vastly expanded neural network and new end-to-end planning models that allow smoother, more natural driving behavior.

🚘 Major Upgrades in FSD V14

  • 10× Larger Neural Network: The driving model now has an order of magnitude more parameters than V13, allowing it to analyze complex traffic patterns and predict driver intent more accurately.
  • Improved Urban Navigation: City driving feels less jerky, and unprotected left turns are handled more confidently thanks to better path prediction.
  • Refined Autopark & Summon: Parking maneuvers are faster and more precise, using a new vector-based positioning system.
  • Reduced Driver Alerts: The new monitoring model can tell when you’re attentive without constant steering nudges — though supervision is still required.
  • Visual Enhancements: The in-car display now renders surrounding objects with smoother motion and higher fidelity, hinting at future robotaxi visualizations.

⚠️ What to Watch Out For

  • Still Level 2: Despite massive improvements, V14 remains a driver-assist system — not true autonomy. Drivers must stay alert and ready to intervene.
  • Hardware Compatibility: Only vehicles with HW4 or newer will receive the full V14 feature set.
  • Regulatory Oversight: Tesla continues to face close scrutiny from U.S. regulators over FSD safety and terminology.

🧭 Early Access User Feedback

Early testers report that FSD V14 delivers smoother turns, fewer phantom braking incidents, and a more human-like sense of flow. One beta user described it as “the first time the car truly feels like it understands what’s happening around it.”

🔮 What Comes Next

Tesla plans to iterate rapidly on this foundation, with FSD V14.1 and V14.2 expected to refine lane selection, improve merging logic, and expand vision-only autopilot capabilities. Musk hinted that these updates could bring Tesla “closer than ever to generalized autonomy.”


Sources: Tesla press statements, early user feedback, and coverage by EV industry news outlets.
Published on GotoTom2 Blog.

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USA President Donald Trump - Speeches, Posts, and Videos

President Trump was born on 6-14-1946. He is the 47th and 45th president of the USA, a media personality, Star of "The Apprentice" on TV for 15 seasons, successful businessman, and a member of the Republican Party.


President Trump works all the time. He generates so much content, I have to create multiple webpages about him.


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President Trump said, "in the future you may not have to pay income tax".



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History of Canada --From Indigenous civilizations and fur-trade empires to confederation, continental war, resource booms and climate realities, the Canadian past has been shaped by encounters ...


A Concise History of Canada 

Canada’s history is a story of deep time and short seasons, of peoples who learned to live with a vast and varied land and, over centuries, created a political culture that seeks accommodation across difference. From Indigenous civilizations and fur-trade empires to confederation, continental war and peacekeeping, residential schools and reconciliation, resource booms and climate realities, the Canadian past has been shaped by encounters—sometimes cooperative, often coercive—between nations, empires, and communities. 

I. Time Immemorial: Indigenous Homelands

Long before Europeans arrived, the territories that would become Canada were the homelands of diverse Indigenous peoples: First Nations, Inuit, and later the Métis. Archaeological evidence and oral histories trace millennia of habitation—Paleo-Indian hunters on the plains at sites like Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump; complex coastal societies of the Pacific Northwest with monumental cedar architecture and totem carving; agricultural Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) villages in the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes with longhouses and palisades; Anishinaabe and Cree nations moving with the seasons across the Shield; Inuit cultures adapting to Arctic sea ice with kayaks, umiaks, dog teams, and sophisticated knowledge of marine ecology.

These societies developed rich political institutions—Haudenosaunee confederacies with codified laws; potlatch economies on the coast that redistributed wealth; vast trade networks carrying copper, obsidian, tobacco, and stories across the continent. Land was not empty; it was relational, governed by responsibilities among people, animals, and places. That sense of relationship, expressed in treaties and protocols, would later collide with European conceptions of sovereignty and property.

II. First Encounters and New France (1500s–1763)

The late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries brought fishermen from Portugal, France, England, and the Basque country to the rich cod banks off Newfoundland. Seasonal camps grew along the coasts; exchange began almost immediately—metal tools and cloth for furs and local knowledge. Jacques Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence in the 1530s, encountering St. Lawrence Iroquoians at Stadacona and Hochelaga; attempts at settlement failed. A century later, permanent colonization took root as Samuel de Champlain founded Québec (1608), anchoring New France.

The colony’s lifeblood was the fur trade, which required Indigenous sovereignty and participation. Wendat (Huron) confederates, Algonquins, and Innu forged alliances with the French; Jesuit missionaries followed, recording ethnographies that are invaluable—and deeply partial—windows into seventeenth-century life. Epidemics and conflict devastated some Indigenous nations, while new blocs formed and reformed in response to trade and firearms. The Haudenosaunee, supplied by Dutch and then British traders at Albany, pressed west and north during the Beaver Wars, reshaping the interior.

By the late 1600s, New France stretched thinly along rivers from the Gulf of St. Lawrence through the Great Lakes to the Mississippi. A seigneurial system parcelled riverfront farms; habitants grew wheat and raised families; coureurs de bois carried packs across portages; and forts like Frontenac, Detroit, and Louisbourg linked imperial ambitions to local rivalries. New France was never populous—tens of thousands, not millions—but it cast a long commercial shadow.

III. British North America and Imperial Rivalry (1713–1815)

The eighteenth century turned the St. Lawrence basin and the Atlantic seaboard into a theatre of European war. After the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), Britain gained Hudson Bay posts and Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia), though the French-speaking Acadians remained. Mi’kmaq and Wabanaki peoples navigated among empires to protect homelands. In 1755, as tensions rose, British authorities deported thousands of Acadians—the Grand Dérangement—scattering families across the Atlantic world and to Louisiana (origin of the Cajuns).

The global Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) culminated in North America with Wolfe and Montcalm’s deaths on the Plains of Abraham (1759) and the fall of Québec; Montréal capitulated in 1760. The Treaty of Paris (1763) transferred New France to Britain, birthing British North America. To stabilize relations in the interior, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 recognized Indigenous title west of the Appalachians and reserved lands for Indigenous nations unless ceded by treaty. That framework would shape later numbered treaties and remains foundational in Canadian law.

Britain faced another challenge almost immediately: the American Revolution (1775–1783). Quebecois largely stayed neutral or loyal; the Continental Army briefly invaded but found little support. The war’s end reconfigured the map: the United States emerged to the south, and tens of thousands of Loyalists—English, Scottish, Irish, German, Black Loyalists (some emancipated for service), and Haudenosaunee allies—migrated to Nova Scotia and the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes region. To accommodate them, Britain created New Brunswick (1784) and split the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada with the Constitutional Act of 1791, establishing elected assemblies alongside appointed councils.

In the wake of alliance with the British, the Haudenosaunee under Joseph Brant settled along the Grand River; Black communities founded settlements like Birchtown and later Africville. The War of 1812 against the United States, fought across the Detroit frontier, Niagara, and the Atlantic, reinforced British-Canadian identity and Indigenous military power—Tecumseh and the Western Confederacy were decisive—yet the postwar treaties pushed many Indigenous nations westward or constrained them within shrinking reserves.