Episode 48: Model 3's Power and an Autopilot Tragedy
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We get our first clue about what kind of performance the Model 3 might be capable of, details of the next Model S and X firmware update have been leaked, and a Tesla owner is tragically killed in the first Autopilot-related fatality.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.6 | we got our first clue about what kind of performance the Model 3 might be capable of. |
| 0:08.4 | Details of the next Model S&X firmware update have been leaked, |
| 0:11.8 | and a Tesla owner is tragically killed in the first |
| 0:14.6 | autopilot related fatality. Oh, Welcome to episode 48. It's Ride the Lightning, the Tesla Motors |
| 0:39.9 | unofficial podcast. My name is Ryan McCaffrey for July 3rd 2016. I want to wish a happy 4th of |
| 0:45.1 | July to American listeners out there. A happy Canada day that just passed to Canadian friends. |
| 0:50.9 | A happy birthday to Elon Musk who turned 45 this week and a happy Sunday to |
| 0:57.1 | everybody else. Unfortunately the first and big story of the week is one you've |
| 1:01.6 | no doubt heard about. I've had my friends and |
| 1:04.8 | family who aren't even you know big Tesla fans or advocates, you know either email |
| 1:10.9 | me or tweet me about this and that is the unfortunate |
| 1:14.4 | autopilot tragedy in Florida last month that was just made public this week |
| 1:19.4 | May 7th down in Florida |
| 1:21.8 | a 40 year old Joshua Brown and ex-Navy Seal who has more recently been a Tesla and just overall |
| 1:28.6 | general EV advocate. He'd been posting, he has a 2015 Model S, he'd been posting videos to YouTube, just a big Tesla |
| 1:36.8 | fan, you know, real, real advocate of the car and of the company and of technology. |
| 1:43.4 | He was tragically killed in an accident in Florida |
| 1:48.2 | when, well, spare the details, but it would involve a tractor trailer, a collision with a tractor trailer which |
| 1:56.8 | Mr Brown did not survive. |
| 1:59.2 | Tesla posted a blog about this saying, quote, we learned yesterday evening that the National Highway |
| 2:04.7 | Traffic Safety Association is opening a preliminary evaluation into the |
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