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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

10.26.17 – Autopilot Firmware Update, Panasonic Increases Investment in Battery Production, Thoughts on TSLA Price This Week

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tech News, Technology, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this (50th!) episode:
– Tesla has added references to more cameras in the most recent Autopilot update
– Panasonic reportedly increasing investment in battery production for EVs, including at the Tesla Gigafactory
– I share my thoughts on TSLA stock price movement this week as we head into the Q3 earnings report

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Music by Evan Schaeffer

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Thursday October 26th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

0:12.0

Testa Podcast, this is the 50th episode

0:14.3

My name is Rob mower today we're talking about the recent firmware update to

0:17.7

autopilot Panasonic increasing its investment in the Gigafactory and a little bit more on the stock price heading into earnings.

0:23.4

Tesla on Wednesday closed down 3.41% to $325.84, this compared to the Nasdac down 0.52%.

0:31.2

We're going to talk about that a little bit more later on, but Supercharger network update,

0:34.7

we are currently at 1,034 supercharging locations, adding one new location in France.

0:39.1

There's a couple of interesting pieces of news out today. The first one is about autopilot. There was a new firmware

0:43.6

update this week and with that update brings some interesting changes to the autopilot system.

0:48.4

When we get new updates like this to autopilot, there's a group of users on the Tesla Motors Club's forums that will look at the code

0:54.7

that's involved in the new update to see if they can learn anything new about how the system is

0:58.8

running based on the changes that were made in the code.

1:01.8

With this most recent update, Forum member Very Green has looked through the code and has discovered

1:06.1

that for the first time in any of the autopilot updates.

1:09.1

On autopilot 2 or autopilot 2.5 hardware vehicles.

1:13.0

They now reference within the code for autopilot

1:15.9

five cameras.

1:17.0

Rather than, I believe prior to this,

1:18.5

I think that it was referencing two cameras.

1:20.4

I might be wrong on that.

1:21.7

It's somewhere between one and three three and I think it's two. So with this new

1:25.4

firmware update for the first time that number has increased to five, they are now utilizing or at

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