04.26.18 – Tesla’s VP of Autopilot Leaves for Intel, More Canadian Reservation Holders Invited to Configure
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
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🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
– Tesla’s VP of Autopilot hardware and software, Jim Keller, leaves Tesla for Intel after 2 1/4 years at Tesla
– Large group on Canadian Model 3 reservation holders invited to configure
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thursday April 26th 2018 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial |
| 0:11.8 | Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Rob mower, quick episode this morning. |
| 0:15.0 | We have news of Jim Keller, the VP of autopilot hardware and software leaving Tesla, |
| 0:20.0 | as well as a quick update on Canadian model three reservation holders. |
| 0:23.5 | For many of you there will be two episodes in your feed. |
| 0:25.8 | Make sure you don't miss yesterday's episode discussing Elon Musk's letter to employees, |
| 0:29.7 | as well as Q2 delivery and production estimates for model 3. |
| 0:32.9 | Relatively big news reported by Electric yesterday that Jim Keller is leaving Tesla for |
| 0:37.2 | Intel. |
| 0:38.2 | Jim Keller was a big hire for Tesla that was much applauded when he joined the company back in |
| 0:41.9 | early 2016 coming from AMD and since that time he has only been given |
| 0:46.1 | more responsibility within the Tesla autopilot team. Personally I was disappointed to see this news |
| 0:50.9 | however does seem like the departure was relatively amicable in terms of |
| 0:54.2 | Tesla standards. |
| 0:55.2 | Tesla saying in a statement, quote, today is Jim Keller's last day at Tesla, where he has |
| 0:59.1 | overseen low voltage hardware, autopilot software, and infotainment. |
| 1:03.0 | Prior to joining Tesla, Jim's core passion |
| 1:05.6 | was microprocessor engineering, |
| 1:07.4 | and now he's joining a company |
| 1:09.0 | where he'll be able to once again focus on this exclusively. |
| 1:12.0 | We appreciate his contributions to Tesla and wish him the best." |
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