Episode 316: AI Day Recap and Analysis
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Tesla holds its long-awaited AI Day and reveals a Jetsons-style home robot in the process. Plus: Tesla's production backlog grows again as demand continues to rise, Model Y arrives in Europe with some not-so-subtle camouflage, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:03.4 | Tesla holds its long-awaited AI day and reveals a Jetson-style home robot in the process. |
| 0:10.3 | Plus Tesla's production backlog grows again as demand continues to rise. |
| 0:16.0 | The Model Y arrives in Europe with some not so subtle camouflage and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside Daisy the Boxer for |
| 0:45.0 | episode 316 of Ride the Lightning, your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast, this one for August 22nd, 2021. |
| 0:54.0 | And I wanted to start before I get into AI Day, |
| 0:56.7 | because there is a lot to cover there. |
| 0:59.0 | A couple of follow-up things I wanted to say |
| 1:01.2 | about my Plaid test drive that I forgot to last week. |
| 1:05.2 | Just some extra notes that popped into my head that I feel like you know I want to |
| 1:08.5 | relay this because the experience of driving a plaid is at this point in time a fairly unique one so |
| 1:14.5 | one I didn't comment on the UI at all and I wanted to say that the new UI feels |
| 1:20.3 | really new and you can really feel the difference in the speed to the the zippiness of it that 10 terra-flop system just |
| 1:29.5 | totally feels cutting edge it's not that not that our model threes and model |
| 1:34.4 | wise and well the entire fleet really other than the the plads and the new long |
| 1:38.6 | range es is not that they feel slow but it's just a there's really just an extra level of zippiness to it, which I thought |
| 1:46.1 | was really great. |
| 1:48.6 | Also, the actual turning of the yoke, I didn't really talk about that. I talked generally about it, but |
| 1:54.4 | actually turning, because I did do some like parking lot maneuvers a few times and I |
| 2:00.0 | actually thought turning it wasn't too bad, but in a panic situation, that's where I wanted to acknowledge |
| 2:06.7 | that you know, that's where it could be not great, potentially, though I will acknowledge that maybe it wouldn't be a problem, potentially |
| 2:16.6 | in a bad situation once you did get completely used to it, which I certainly had not, |
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