Episode 247: Model S (Somehow) Gets Quicker
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The Model S Performance's official 0-60mph time has somehow been lowered yet again, Elon Musk gives a couple more minor updates on the Cybertruck, Tesla Autopilot lead Andrej Karpathy gives a fascinating talk on the state of full self-driving, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, the Model S's official |
| 0:04.9 | Zero to 60 time has somehow been lowered again. |
| 0:09.0 | Elon Musk gives a couple more minor updates on the cyber truck, Tesla autopilot lead Andre Carpathie gives a fascinating |
| 0:16.3 | talk on the state of full self-driving and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffy with you for episode 247 of Ride the Lightning the |
| 0:43.7 | Tesla unofficial podcast this one for April 26th 2020 the great Daisy the |
| 0:48.7 | boxer puppy alongside me as always and it is yet another busy week of Tesla News. Next week |
| 0:55.8 | promises to be busy as well we've got the earnings call for Q1 to look forward to. |
| 1:00.6 | That one's going to be interesting because we of course had the very |
| 1:04.8 | tail end of that quarter affected by the quarantine-related shutdown of the Tesla factory. So stay tuned for next week's episode of this podcast |
| 1:15.1 | for my recap and analysis which will include a lot of great audio clips from |
| 1:20.2 | Elon Musk and the Tesla executive team. |
| 1:23.5 | Also, some big news popping in at the end of the week, |
| 1:28.1 | the new software version rolling out 20.12.6, heading out 20.12.6 heading out wide now and this includes stop sign and stoplight recognition. |
| 1:41.0 | So if you've got hardware three, that's the full self-driving computer, and you've |
| 1:46.0 | purchased the full self-driving software package, this is coming your way any time now. In fact, perhaps you've already received it by the time |
| 1:56.2 | you are hearing this podcast. I have not just yet because as I'm recording, it has just started |
| 2:02.3 | going out within hours, so haven't seen any |
| 2:05.2 | notification pop up on my phone just yet but I am looking forward to giving it a |
| 2:10.6 | test drive quite literally I'll share my impression certainly next week |
| 2:15.4 | assuming that I hopefully fingers crossed do get the update some time between now and |
| 2:21.4 | then all right let me get started with the first story of the week |
| 2:25.8 | and that is our headliner, the Model S's performance on the heels of the Cheetah Stance launch mode that I had previously told you about a week or two back. |
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