Hello everyone and welcome to the Wednesday August 23rd 2017 edition of Tesla Daily on official Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob

Maower. Today we're talking about Apple's autonomous vehicle ambitions and the

Tesla Loot Box. Stock price yesterday we closed at $341.35. This was up 1.03

compared to the NASDAQ of up 1.36 percent. Supercharger network update

there is not one. We have 946 superchargers still.

So let's get right into the news today and we're kind of sticking with the theme that we've

been on for the last couple of days which is autonomy.

Yesterday the New York Times came out with a new report that gives us a little bit more detail

on Apple's autonomous car plans.

This project within Apple is referred to as Project Titan.

It's been pretty apparent that Apple's been working on this for a while.

You may remember last year, Elon referred to the vehicle project at Apple

as obvious, an open secret.

He said, it's pretty hard to hide something

if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it.

At that time, Project Titan was being led by Steve Zadezky,

an executive that had been a part of the iPod and iPhone projects at

Apple. Zadezky and chief designer Johnny Iva are reported to have disagreed over the best

path to an autonomous vehicle. Zadezi preferred pursuing a semi-autonomous vehicle

kind of as a stepping stone to full autonomy.

While Johnny Ive preferred the design to be basically entirely centered

around a fully self-driving vehicle, one without even a

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