Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast,

Elon Musk makes a bold prediction about the future of Tesla's new summon feature.

The US government wants to be ready for self-driving cars,

and Elon comments on Apple's electric car efforts.

Here we go. Oh, Welcome to Ride The Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast.

My name is Ryan McCaffrey.

It's episode 24 here on January 17th, 2016. And I'll start off by telling

you that I did not win the powerball, so I'll just have to hope that a model S or model X magically shows up at my doorstep with a big red bow on it

Or more likely I'll just keep saving up for a model three, but I did buy a lottery ticket, I never do. I'm not a lottery player but I figured

eh what the heck. The odds are nearly impossible but why not? It's a I'll make my one my once in a year or more

contrab once or less often I should say contribution to the the lottery but yeah

I'll keep daydreaming for a while but model three getting closer I mean here it's you know the

middle of January if things continue on schedule in within what about about 10

weeks from now.

We'll know a lot more about the model 3, what it looks like, what it can do when, you know, what it's what it's going to be capable of.

So I will continue to count down the weeks and days for that.

Plus, that will finally be when I can put my reservation down, which will trigger the real

weight.

But having followed the S and the X, living vicariously through other people,

there are like seven weights that you have to go through that each one seems to be more excruciating than the last. First, there's the

weight potentially for the vehicle to even get announced, which has been more prominent I think

with the model three than with the the and the x so now we're just

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