Episode 251: Is Full Self-Driving Worth $100,000?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk confirms an imminent price increase on Autopilot's Full Self-Driving package, Sandy Munro gives his final takeaways after completing his Model Y teardown, Tulsa makes a grand symbolic gesture in its attempt to woo the Cybertruck Gigafactory to Oklahoma, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | Elon Musk confirms an imminent price increase on autopilot's full self-driving |
| 0:08.7 | package. Sandy Monroe gives his final takeaways after completing his model Y tear down. |
| 0:14.8 | Tulsa makes a grand symbolic gesture in its attempt to woo the Cyber Truck Gigafactory |
| 0:20.3 | to Oklahoma and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you for episode 251 of Ride the Lightning this one for May 24th 2020 |
| 0:49.2 | Daisy the boxer puppy hanging out in her open door crate behind me. |
| 0:52.8 | She's actually awake because it's daytime. |
| 0:56.0 | It's very rare that I do the show with the sun still shining. |
| 0:59.8 | But I was very fortunate to be given the extra day off today ahead of the holiday weekend. |
| 1:06.0 | So I'm very grateful to be enjoying an extra long holiday weekend here across as Memorial Day comes up for the United States and I thought well you know what |
| 1:16.2 | I'm gonna risk maybe missing a story if anything breaks late in the day on Friday or Friday evening, |
| 1:23.0 | but I thought, well, let me get the show done, |
| 1:25.4 | get it out to the Patreon backers a little bit earlier than usual. |
| 1:29.9 | And also then I don't have to worry about it tonight. |
| 1:32.4 | I can just relax and enjoy my evening and wind down as normal. |
| 1:36.3 | So hope you're all doing well. I'm feeling really good. I have to be honest. I got a good night's sleep. I'm just again grateful to have an extra day off and yeah just |
| 1:45.6 | looking forward to enjoying a weekend here hopefully some good weather hopefully |
| 1:50.5 | some good dog walking time but I wish you the best as well hope |
| 1:55.2 | everybody's well hey real quick before I get started this week I forgot to |
| 1:59.0 | mention this last week but in light of my 250th episode, I wanted to humbly mention my Patreon real quick. |
| 2:08.0 | Now, I normally, I make it a point to only ever mention that at the end of the show so as not to my goal there is not to bother people with it if you don't want to hear it. |
| 2:19.0 | But then again, I also know not everybody even makes it to the end of the podcast so if you wouldn't mind |
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