Episode 304: Goodbye Radar, Hello Tesla Vision
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Tesla passes the point of no return on its transition to a vision-based Autopilot system, the in-cabin camera will now be making sure you're not trying to pull any Autopilot stunts, the first Tesla Semi Megacharger site has been revealed, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode, a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Tesla passes the point of no return on its transition to a vision-based autopilot system. |
| 0:08.7 | The in-cabin camera will now be making sure you're not trying to pull any autopilot stunts. |
| 0:14.0 | The first Tesla semi-megacharger site has been revealed and more. Oh, What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 304 of Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla |
| 0:43.9 | unofficial podcast for May 30th 2021. Daisy the boxer puppy is to my left |
| 0:49.4 | looking out the window as she often does and if you hear any additional smaller higher |
| 0:54.4 | pitched dog sounds were dog sitting for my sister-in-law so there are two dogs in |
| 1:00.4 | here co-hosting with me this week and I am happy to say that our company very |
| 1:05.4 | kindly closed down all all the operations for ahead of the holiday weekend a |
| 1:10.3 | little early so I am recording earlier in the day here Friday afternoon the sun |
| 1:15.1 | is still out which never happens when I record so happy to get this episode out a little |
| 1:20.6 | earlier to the early access Patreon backers so hope you guys enjoy it. |
| 1:26.9 | What else can I tell you I had a great time at the Peterson Automotive Museum last weekend. I'm going to wait and tell you about |
| 1:34.0 | that near the end of the show so that those of you who just want Tesla News don't |
| 1:39.2 | have to fast forward through it if you're not interested. Finally, one other just quick PSA this week, I wanted to |
| 1:45.9 | apologize for last week's show, episode 303, Apple Podcasts just chose not to push the podcast out right at the scheduled 6 a.m. Pacific 9 a.m. Eastern time for some reason. |
| 2:01.8 | I have zero control over it and it just seems like it happens every once in a while |
| 2:07.2 | I mean I go through the same process every week when I prepare the podcast and schedule it |
| 2:12.1 | it goes out on time on other podcast feeds, |
| 2:16.5 | but sometimes Apple, which is where I know statistically most of you listen to this podcast, |
| 2:21.9 | sometimes Apple will just decide, you know what, nah, I'm |
| 2:25.0 | gonna just sit on this for a few hours and inevitably I get a couple emails |
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