Hello and welcome to the Friday December 29th, 2017 edition of Tesla Daily Unofficial

Tesla Podcast.

My name is Rob Maurer.

Really excited about today's episode.

We have an expert in autonomous driving joining the program.

We'll hop into that in a second.

Today, Tesla stock closed down 1.27% to 311.35, as compared to the NASDAQ down 0.67%.

Since this was the last day of trading on the year, and this will be the last episode of Tesla

Daily for 2017, Tesla Stock on the year finished up 43.5% compared to the Nasdac up 27.2%.

Supercharger network update we are currently at 1,121 supercharging locations with one new station opening up in Riverside, California.

Before we get into the interview, just a quick thank you to all of my listeners.

Really appreciate the support that you guys have shown throughout this year.

It's been awesome, and I wanted to wish everybody shown throughout this year. It's been awesome and I wanted to

wish everybody a happy new year and safe traveling if you are traveling during this

time period. Be safe. All right, here's the interview. Okay so our guest today

has his PhD in computer science and is a research scientist and lecturer at

MIT focusing on deep learning and computer vision related to self-driving cars.

Here is Lex Friedman. Welcome, Lex.

Hey Rob, it's good to be on.

Yeah, thank you for joining me. Really appreciate the time.

Do you want to give us a little bit of background on yourself and tell us a little bit about what you've been working on?

Yeah, like you said, my name's Lex. I'm a research scientist at MIT. My fascination in applying machine learning and deep learning methods to autonomous

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