Episode 394: Key Autopilot Hardware 4 Details Revealed
Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.8 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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The Tesla community’s resident whitehat hacker got his hands on an Autopilot Hardware 4 computer, and it has answered many of our biggest burning questions about the upcoming sensor suite change. Plus: Tesla partners up with the US government to open up some of the Supercharger network to other EVs, the Model Y and the Model 3 dominated California’s new car sales in 2022, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | the Tesla community's resident white hat hacker got his hands on an autopilot |
| 0:08.2 | hardware for a computer and it has answered many of our biggest burning questions about the upcoming |
| 0:14.1 | sensor sweet change. Plus, Tesla partners up with the US government to open up some of |
| 0:19.3 | the supercharger network to other EVs, the Model 3 and the Model Y dominated California's new car |
| 0:25.2 | sales in 2022 and more. Oh, Greetings friends, I'm Ryan McCaffer here with you alongside Daisy the Boxer to my left. |
| 0:52.0 | It is episode 394 of Ride the Lightning |
| 0:55.1 | your weekly Tesla unofficial podcast for February 19th, 2023. First of all I |
| 1:01.6 | want to say that I hope all of you enjoyed the Sandy |
| 1:04.1 | Monroe interview last week I got a lot of nice kind words about that although one |
| 1:08.5 | thing I do need to note about that |
| 1:15.0 | I'm pretty sure Sandy was mistaken about there being fully driverless autonomous |
| 1:17.2 | cyber truck betas running around |
| 1:19.9 | uh... but i didn't want to be rude in the middle of the interview. I mean it flagged in my brain right away |
| 1:24.0 | But I just thought you know what we'll just we'll just keep talking and I'll just follow up with this later |
| 1:29.8 | I don't think there's any evidence to that so far. |
| 1:32.7 | All of the sightings that have been happening lately have been with a driver in the driver's seat, |
| 1:37.6 | but anyway, just wanted to point that out. |
| 1:41.2 | Also, I barely got last week's episode out before Tesla tweaked the model 3 and |
| 1:48.1 | model y prices again. So here's where we currently stand as of me recording this on Friday evening. |
| 1:56.0 | The base model 3 was slashed by another $500 bringing it down to $43,000.00. The Model Y performance went up by $500 to now 59,000 and the Off-Men |
| 2:12.0 | and the Off-Menue Model Y standard range all-wheel drive. |
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