10.20.17 – More Model 3 VINs Registered with NHTSA, EAP Might Have a New Feature, Google Invests in Lyft
Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis
Rob Maurer
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this episode:
– Tesla registers 1,000 more Model 3 VINs with NHTSA, and what that really means for production
– Early unconfirmed reports of the first differentiating feature of Enhanced Autopilot
– Alphabet (Google) takes $1B stake in ride-sharing service Lyft
– Consumer reports rates Model 3 reliability as average
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Friday October 20th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial |
| 0:11.8 | Tesla Podcast. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Rob Maower. |
| 0:13.6 | Today we're talking about more Model 3 Vins being registered with NHTSA, |
| 0:16.9 | a possible update to enhanced autopilot, |
| 0:18.9 | and Google Parent Company Alphabet taking a $1 billion stake |
| 0:22.0 | in Ride Sharing Service lift. |
| 0:23.6 | Tesla stock performance yesterday was pretty tough. |
| 0:25.7 | We were down 2.18% to $351.81 cents compared to the NASDAQ down 0.29%. |
| 0:31.5 | The day started off pretty tough, but I think something that came out during the day that didn't |
| 0:35.1 | really help is consumer reports came out with a report saying that the Tesla model 3 is likely |
| 0:39.7 | to be average and reliability. |
| 0:41.7 | In the report, they mentioned that they've never |
| 0:44.0 | basically seen a model three or own a model three or driven a model three or anything like that. |
| 0:48.0 | However, just because of the amount of new technology that the model three has, |
| 0:52.0 | and they are deciding to give it a rating anyway and they're |
| 0:55.2 | reading it as average reliability. A Tesla spokesperson made a comment on this saying |
| 0:59.8 | consumer reports has not yet driven a model three, let alone do that know anything substantial |
| 1:03.6 | about how the model three was designed and engineered. |
| 1:06.4 | Time and time again, our own data shows that Consumer Reports Automotive Reporting is consistently |
| 1:11.1 | inaccurate and misleading to consumers. |
| 1:13.4 | So Tesla was not super happy with consumer reports on this one. |
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