Episode 219: More Hidden Goodies, More Acquisitions
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Elon sneaks some clever Monty Python Easter eggs into the V10 car software, Tesla acquires another battery company, plus updates on the Pickup truck, in-car navigation system, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast Elon sneaks some clever Monte Python Easter eggs into the V10 car software |
| 0:08.4 | Tesla acquires another battery company plus updates on the pickup truck in-car navigation system and more. The What's happening my friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 219 of Ride the Lightning the weekly Tesla Unofficial Podcast for October 13th, 2019. |
| 0:46.0 | Daisy the boxer puppy to my left working on a bone over there. |
| 0:49.0 | She is happy and having a good time. |
| 0:50.0 | And for once, she's awake during the podcast podcast we'll see if that lasts. |
| 0:54.0 | While there is a ton to talk about this week another just crazy busy week in the world of |
| 0:59.4 | Tesla so much to get to let me start with a couple of follow-ups from last week first. I got a lot of |
| 1:06.7 | responses about the slacker issue that I talked about towards the end of last week show with regard to Slacker frequently just skipping to the next |
| 1:15.9 | track in the middle of a song. |
| 1:18.9 | Seemed like based on the sample size of responses I got seemed like it was probably a fairly widespread |
| 1:25.4 | issue now the good news is that I actually got two updates today not one but two I've |
| 1:31.5 | never gotten two in a single day before, and thankfully, |
| 1:36.0 | both this morning after the first, so I did the first update before I left for work. |
| 1:41.0 | So on the first update and then on the way home I did the |
| 1:43.7 | second update at work when it pushed to me in the afternoon. So I am now on 2019.32.12.2 it |
| 1:51.6 | was dot 1 this morning, and I did not encounter that slacker skip track bug today at all. |
| 1:59.8 | So hopefully this new release has fixed that problem. I'll be keeping an eye on it for sure. |
| 2:07.0 | Also, Tom from Chicago, tip of the cap to him. He wrote in about the easily scuffed glove box in model three that a caller had had |
| 2:17.6 | discussed last week and Tom writes this just wanted to quickly reply to you and I was Mike from Massachusetts regarding the glove box scuffs. |
| 2:27.0 | I had the same issue when our diaper bag brushed up against it. |
| 2:29.6 | The service is extremely sensitive and even got worse when I tried to wash it out with a soft microfiber. |
| 2:35.0 | However, I did some research and tried a water-based vinyl dressing which worked extremely |
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