Hello and welcome to the Thursday February 7th 2019 edition of Tesla Daily on

official Tesla Podcast. My name is Rob

Maower just catching up on a few quick news items today. First off, I do

apologize for yesterday's episode cutting in and out. I'm not sure

what caused that and unfortunately I couldn't salvage the audio but hopefully what I was saying still made some sense regardless it wasn't cutting the whole time, but I am sorry for that.

Tesla stock on the day-to- day finished down 3.06% to

$307.51 cents this compared to the NASDAQ down 1.18%. I don't think

there was anything really particularly Tesla-centric that drove that

stock price today. I think it was more an outcome of the macro environment.

However, Business Insider and USA Today both tied Tesla's fall in stock price today to Amazon investing in a self-driving

startup, Aurora, which interestingly enough we've talked about on the podcast

before because it was co-founded by Sterling Anderson who is the former director of

autopilot at Tesla when autopilot was launched. After he left Tesla to start

Aurora with most notably Chris Ermsen, who was the chief technology officer of Google

Self- Driving Car Project that eventually became Weimo.

Tesla sued and then settled with Sterling Anderson for poaching employees and stealing documents from Tesla.

So nowadays Aurora is working on both hardware and software solutions for autonomous driving

with the intent of becoming a supplier to OEMs of that hardware and software.

The investment today which valued Aurora around $2 billion included Amazon but also

Sequoia, V.C. firm, and investments from Tiro Price and the investment arm of Shell.

It is interesting that Amazon has kind of finally made a move with self-driving technology

because it's obviously going to have a huge impact on their business.

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