Hello and

welcome to the Wednesday, January 31st, 2018,

edition of Tesla Daily on Official Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maower, and today we are talking about Tesla's testing of full self-driving,

as well as Tesla's bond issuance.

This is another evening episode for me, so I get a report on today's stock price action where Tesla was up

2.46% to $3.54.31 cents this compared to the NASDAQ up 0.12%

Supercharger network update we are still at 1,151 Supercharger network update. We are still at 1,151 supercharging locations.

In the news today, California's DMV has filed their annual autonomous vehicle disengagement report.

This report is mandatory by state law and it requires anyone that is doing

any testing of autonomous vehicles on public roads in California to report the number of miles that are

driven by those autonomous driving systems as well as the number of

disengagements that occur from those systems by human interaction over the course of those miles.

From the 2016 report, we learned that Tesla had 550 miles driven autonomously and over the course of

those miles they had 168 disengagements from autonomous driving occur.

That rate was very high compared to other people testing autonomous driving in California.

For example, Weymo, their 2016 disengagement rate was around 0.2 disengagements per 1,000 miles.

Tesla's on the other hand is like 338, so a few orders of magnitude

higher than Weymo's disengagement rate. There are a few possible reasons behind that and I think one of the biggest

reasons is that after the report came out it was clear that Tesla was using that

public testing to acquire a video of full self-driving in action, and that is now being used for marketing

purposes to advertise the full self-driving feature. I think there are definitely two sides

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