Episode 447: Cybertruck’s ‘Rust’ Is Just FUD

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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The Cybertruck’s so-called “rust” issue has been explained and solved. Plus: Cybertruck gets more official customization options, LG gets ready to start adding to Tesla’s 4680 battery cell supply, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, the cyber truck so-called
0:05.9	rust issue has been explained and solved. Plus, cyber truck gets more official customization options,
0:13.6	LG gets ready to start adding to Tesla's 4680 battery cell supply
0:18.9	and more. The What's happening friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey joining you alongside Daisy the Boxer. This is Ride the Lightning
0:45.3	episode 447, your weekly dose of Tesla News and Analysis, this episode publishing on February 25th, 2024. I will start here.
0:57.0	Full self-driving beta version 12.2.1 has gone out what I thought was out wide. It turns out it didn't actually go out wide. I never get
1:09.6	stuff early but apparently I was in the lucky initial small group to get this push.
1:17.0	Now, this, I'll talk more about that in a second.
1:20.0	This push has been heralded by Elon Musk and the Tesla team as a big one.
1:25.6	Version 12 as it removes hundreds of thousands of lines of code and
1:31.2	functions solely on NeuralNet. End to end neural nets, as we've heard
1:36.5	Elon say a bunch of times. I got it on Monday night as some of you I guess
1:42.1	likely did. I thought it was going to be most of you because again
1:45.8	I've never gotten an you know a so-called early drop of a of an FSD beta software update.
1:53.0	So, my initial thoughts, after driving around with it for the last several days,
1:59.0	I have to say, I am not seeing quite the dramatic improvement that a lot of the Tesla FSD
2:07.8	youtubers are a lot of the commentary out there is oh it's it's way better it's so much better I'm not
2:14.4	seeing that at least for now and I'm not invalidating anybody else's opinion or
2:19.0	perspective just giving you my thoughts after a few trips with it.
2:24.0	I will say probably the biggest thing that is improved in actual just moment to moment use
2:32.0	is it accelerates out of its NHTSA mandated
2:37.5	complete stops at stop signs much quicker and more naturally now, which is so appreciated because before you, you know,
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