01.01.18 – AP2 Update Finally Adds Auto-Wipers, Q4 Delivery Estimates
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
– Autopilot 2 firmware update finally includes automatic rain-sensing wiper capability as a beta feature
– Now that Q4 is closed, I share my expectations for Q4 delivery numbers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Monday January 1st 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial |
| 0:11.8 | Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | Happy New Year, everybody. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Rob Maower, and today we are talking about |
| 0:15.9 | autopilot 2 Hardware Vehicles finally getting the capability |
| 0:18.8 | for AutoWipers, as well as what to expect for Q4 deliveries. |
| 0:22.7 | Stock markets were closed today, but on the week last week, |
| 0:25.2 | Tesla closed down 3.3%, |
| 0:27.4 | compared to the NASDAQ down 4 tenths of a percent. |
| 0:29.8 | Supercharger network update, we are currently at 1,127 supercharging locations with new stations |
| 0:35.2 | opening up in Massachusetts, Belgium, Spain, New Zealand, and two in Quebec. |
| 0:40.6 | At the beginning of 2017, there were 770 supercharging locations so |
| 0:45.4 | 357 supercharging locations have been added this year, nearly one per day. |
| 0:49.6 | That rate did accelerate during the second half of the year where 1.4 stations came online each day on average. |
| 0:56.0 | Before we get into the news today, I want to say a huge thank you again to everyone that signed up to support on Patreon. |
| 1:01.0 | There's some exciting news today that I have. We have somebody |
| 1:04.2 | that has signed up at the Platinum producer level. So huge, huge thank you to |
| 1:07.9 | Jordan Barclay for signing up at that level. That's awesome. It's really |
| 1:11.1 | incredible and I really appreciate that support. |
| 1:13.4 | So into the news then we get to begin 2018 on an exciting note. |
| 1:17.1 | AutoWiper capability has been added to autopilot 2 hardware vehicles via an over-the-air firmware update, though it is still in what Tesla refers to as |
| 1:26.1 | beta mode. Auto-wiper capability was one of the main features that was lacking in autopilot |
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