Episode 374: AI Day 2022 Recap + Cybertruck’s New “Feature”
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Tesla held its second and now annual AI Day, and I’ve got a recap and analysis of the Optimus bot reveal and the big updates on the team’s progress on Full Self-Driving. Plus: Elon Musk talks up a new Cybertruck “feature,” the Fremont Factory expands again, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | Tesla held its second and now annual AI day, |
| 0:07.5 | and I've got a recap and analysis of the Optimus Bot reveal |
| 0:11.0 | and the big updates on the team's progress on full self-driving. |
| 0:14.4 | Plus, Elon Musk talks up a new cyber truck feature. |
| 0:18.6 | The Fremont factory expands again and more. What's happening friends Ryan McCaffrey here with you alongside an already snoring |
| 0:46.4 | Daisy the Boxer for episode 374 of your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast |
| 0:52.1 | it's Ride the Lightning for October 2nd, |
| 0:54.8 | 2022 starting even later than usual tonight because of the AI Day |
| 1:00.5 | 2022 that just concluded. It concluded around 9.30 PM Pacific. I cut a bunch of clips together, got some stuff prepared for you, |
| 1:10.9 | in addition to everything I already had ready to go for the show and now |
| 1:13.7 | 10.05 p.m. I am starting my record who knows when I'll finish tonight it's gonna be |
| 1:18.1 | a long one but that's okay well the end of tonight as I'm recording here on September 30th, means that another |
| 1:26.0 | quarter has come to a close for Tesla, so I hope everybody on the Tesla team |
| 1:30.6 | was able to get a restful weekend by the time all of you hear this |
| 1:35.2 | after what was no doubt another sprint to a big quarters finish line and on that note |
| 1:41.4 | production and delivery numbers for Q3 should almost |
| 1:44.9 | certainly like with 99% certainty arrive in time for next week show so that's |
| 1:51.0 | going to be something you can automatically pencil in for next week's podcast. |
| 1:55.0 | Hey, I wanted to start with some follow-up business from last week. |
| 1:58.0 | I got a lot of responses from the call that Brian and Pennsylvania made on last |
| 2:05.8 | week's show about his left repeater camera issues at night, specifically in the |
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