Episode 322: The Cyberquad Is Back...Sort Of
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Cyberquad resurfaces (but not like you think), Giga Shanghai ramps up production yet again, Elon Musk is confident that the chip shortage is almost over, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a ride the lightning the Tesla unofficial podcast the cyber quad resurfaces but not like you think |
| 0:07.2 | Gigas Shanghai ramps up production yet again. |
| 0:10.3 | Elon Musk is confident that the chip shortage is almost over and more. |
| 0:15.0 | This episode is dedicated to my friend William who has done more for the Tesla |
| 0:18.9 | owners community than most people realize. What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you as always for |
| 0:44.8 | Ride the Lightning your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for October 3rd 2021. |
| 0:49.6 | It is episode 3.22 of course Daisy the Boxer to my left, hanging out on the couch, and it is, of course, yet |
| 0:55.8 | another busy week of Tesla News. |
| 0:58.1 | The big news is, as promised last Friday, the button, the full self-driving beta request button was delivered to us, as promised |
| 1:08.6 | as I'm sure all of you were eagerly awaiting. |
| 1:11.1 | In fact, you'd probably already pressed it before you |
| 1:13.2 | listen to last week's show and I'll give you my impressions of it I'm kind of |
| 1:18.6 | curious it's been fun hearing about everybody's experiences with it I knew I would be in for a bit of a tough time in |
| 1:25.3 | San Francisco and I know I talk about San Francisco and being a difficult city to drive around |
| 1:30.3 | in a lot. Those of you that do live here probably agree with me and again I'm not |
| 1:35.8 | saying other cities aren't tough but this is a tricky city and I guess any major |
| 1:40.5 | city probably is particularly with what the safety score in your app is asking |
| 1:47.7 | you to do, which is to drive very safely to specifically not get any forward collision warnings to maintain a safe |
| 1:55.6 | distance behind the car in front of you at all times to not make any sudden turns |
| 2:00.3 | or hard-breaking incidents there's you know it's it's basic stuff but still |
| 2:06.2 | sometimes you just don't have any control because you can't control what other |
| 2:11.2 | people are doing. |
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