Episode 338: Tesla’s Impressive New Vehicle Safety Report
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Tesla has released its latest quarterly vehicle safety report and the numbers continue to trend in the desired direction. Plus: Canadian Tesla owners might have access to the FSD beta soon, Tesla addresses a critical heat pump issue affecting Octovalve-enabled cars, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode a Ride the Lightning the Tesla Unofficial Podcast |
| 0:03.8 | Tesla has released its latest quarterly vehicle safety report and the numbers |
| 0:08.4 | continue to trend in the desired direction. |
| 0:11.2 | Plus Canadian Tesla owners might have access to the FSD beta soon. |
| 0:16.0 | Tesla addresses a critical heat pump issue affecting Octovolve enabled cars and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you for episode 338 of |
| 0:46.8 | Ride the Lightning Your Weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for January 23rd of |
| 0:51.8 | 2022 to my left Daisy the boxer puppy on lookout waiting for my |
| 0:56.0 | wife to get home from a little evening out with a friend so she's just |
| 0:59.6 | keeping watch and I am keeping watch over this week's Tesla news. |
| 1:04.0 | As usual, there is plenty of it. |
| 1:06.4 | I wanted to start the show by noting that yes, |
| 1:09.1 | full self-driving is now officially $12,000 dollars if you go for the lump sum version and if you're |
| 1:17.3 | curious and and by the way don't take this as gospel just yet given that it is only one person but one Tesla owner |
| 1:26.2 | Post it on Twitter this week on this post kind of went viral claiming that there was a |
| 1:32.2 | $6,000 difference in trade-in value offered by Tesla on his two otherwise identical model wise, one with FSD, one without. |
| 1:43.6 | So we'll see, I mean if that's gonna prove out accurate, |
| 1:47.8 | then you know we've got a, it's a 6K trade in value. |
| 1:51.8 | You're getting about half of that from Tesla. |
| 1:55.0 | Whether you agree or disagree with that is another matter because there's certainly |
| 1:59.0 | plenty of debate to be had over that. |
| 2:01.3 | I mean, yes, it's a a used car but it's also software. It's there's |
| 2:06.8 | sort of two sides to that discussion but in any case I also want to thank |
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