Episode 191: Autopilot Levels Up
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Autopilot has quietly learned a big new trick that moves the system one step closer to achieving full self-driving capability on city streets. Plus: Autopilot hardware 3 appears to be finding its way into new-build Teslas, the Superchargers are starting to get their charge-rate upgrades, and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | autopilot has quietly learned a big new trick that moves the system one step |
| 0:08.2 | closer to achieving full self-driving capability on city streets. |
| 0:12.6 | Plus, autopilot Hardware 3 appears to be finding its way into new-build Tesla's. |
| 0:17.9 | The superchargers are starting to get their charge rate upgrades and more. Welcome friends to the Palindromatic 191 episode of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:47.3 | the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast for March 31st 2019 I can't believe a quarter of 2019 is already over. |
| 0:56.8 | It's unreal that one-fourth of this year is already done. |
| 0:59.8 | It's just, it's going by so quickly. |
| 1:02.2 | Anyway, before I get started, in fact, |
| 1:04.2 | on the note of it being the end of the quarter, |
| 1:06.0 | I wanted to wish Tesla the very best this weekend |
| 1:09.7 | as they power through as many deliveries |
| 1:12.4 | as humanly possible here to close things out. |
| 1:15.6 | And I know I know I've heard from plenty of Tesla employees over the months and years that |
| 1:20.7 | listen to this podcast. |
| 1:22.0 | So to all of you Tesla employees listening I want to |
| 1:25.2 | tell you we appreciate your efforts and you're all working a lot of long hours |
| 1:29.7 | hard hours a lot of work going into making Q1 the very best it can be here. |
| 1:36.2 | So we tip our caps, we thank you, a lot of new owners joining the fold, joining the family, |
| 1:41.9 | here at the end of the quarter, including my boss, PARE, the co-founder |
| 1:46.5 | of IGM. |
| 1:48.1 | Trading up, sort of, trading down slash up slash sideways. |
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