Episode 271: Autopilot Phantom Braking Solved?
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk says that the pesky phantom braking issue with Autopilot has been solved, some long-requested features make their way into your car, Tesla states its plan to expand to a major new global market next year, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, Elon Musk says that the pesky phantom breaking issue with autopilot has been solved. |
| 0:08.8 | Some long requested features make their way into your car. |
| 0:12.1 | Tesla states its plan to expand to a |
| 0:14.2 | major new global market next year and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey with you alongside Days of the Boxer who is looking longingly out the window hoping maybe a |
| 0:43.9 | squirrel or something goes by that she can take interest in. It is episode 271 of |
| 0:49.2 | Ride the Lightning, the weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for October 11th, 2020. |
| 0:55.0 | First, I wanted to give a quick apology for those of you who listen on YouTube. |
| 1:00.4 | There was a delay last week in getting the show to YouTube if you do prefer to listen there |
| 1:05.2 | It was an issue with my podcast hosting provider Libson and their syndication to YouTube |
| 1:11.0 | They had said this appears to be caused by our per day API quota with |
| 1:15.6 | YouTube being set to zero. This is not a change that we made and is likely |
| 1:19.4 | something done from YouTube's end. Anyway, it is back to normal now. So sorry about that. Everything |
| 1:24.9 | should hopefully be on schedule from here on out. Also real quick, just a programming note, |
| 1:30.9 | I have introduced another new Patreon pledged tier and that and I've also |
| 1:36.5 | renamed them all. I thought you know what I haven't really refreshed these in a while and |
| 1:40.7 | taking a closer look. They're all named after performance driving |
| 1:44.5 | modes in the car now. So what was the early access tier is now the sport |
| 1:49.4 | tier, the color priority tier track mode tier |
| 1:54.7 | ludicrous tier that gets you your bonus episode every month and the other |
| 1:59.5 | lower ones |
| 2:01.0 | then there's plaid formerly known as the Patreon producers. Maximum Plaid, that's the new one. That'll be a group Google |
| 2:09.3 | Hangout to talk Tesla every month. I've been doing a couple of these as sort of a welcome thing and it seems like everybody it's not just me having fun. It seems like everybody is having fun getting together and chatting Tesla with people around the country, |
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