Episode 234: The LEGO Cybertruck Lives
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The fan-made LEGO Cybertruck project gets one step closer to reality and gets an upgrade to boot, Tesla releases its latest Autopilot and fire safety report, some good news for Tesla owners in Michigan, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the fan-made |
| 0:04.8 | LEGO Cyber Truck Project gets one step closer to reality and gets an upgrade to boot. |
| 0:10.8 | Tesla releases its latest autopilot and Fire Safety Report, some good news for Tesla owners in |
| 0:16.5 | Michigan and more. Oh, What's happening, happening, friends, to ride the lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast. Episode 234 for January 26th, 2020. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Brian McCaffray next to me, as always, Daisy the Boxer Puppy. |
| 0:50.4 | And I spent most of the week out of town on business, so I was just barely able to keep up with the podcast and everything going on. |
| 0:57.5 | But what's nice is those flights, you know, you get a little extra time to either work on the podcast or do a little |
| 1:03.7 | work work or in this case as well you know sneak a little TV in there I don't know if |
| 1:08.1 | if you've watched Picard yet for any of you that are a Star Trek fans but for me the original series I was just a little |
| 1:15.8 | too young for that born in 1980 so but for me the next generation is that is Star Trek for me I love TNG and man it is good to |
| 1:25.8 | see Patrick Stewart back as Jean Luke Picard anyway let's talk some Tesla |
| 1:30.9 | shall we first up this, Tesla has released its Q4 2019 |
| 1:37.1 | vehicle safety report. |
| 1:39.4 | Tesla writing, quote, in the fourth quarter |
| 1:41.8 | we registered one accident for every 3.07 million miles driven |
| 1:46.6 | in which drivers had autopilot engaged. |
| 1:50.1 | For those driving without autopilot, but with our active safety features, we registered |
| 1:55.2 | one accident for every 2.10 million miles driven. |
| 2:00.6 | For those driving without autopilot and without our active safety features, |
| 2:05.0 | we registered one accident for every 1.64 million miles driven. |
| 2:10.0 | By comparison, the NHSA's most recent data shows that in the United States, there |
| 2:15.3 | is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles. |
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