Episode 483: Tesla’s FSD Roadmap Gives a Lot to Be Excited About

Ride the Lightning: Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast

Ryan McCaffrey

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🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Tesla’s newest AI roadmap gives FSD owners a lot to look forward to before the end of the year. Plus: a latent feature of some Teslas might soon awaken, Tesla looks to standardize electrical connectors in the industry, and more!

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0:00.0	On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast, Tesla's newest AI
0:05.4	roadmap gives FSD owners a lot to look forward to before the end of the year.
0:10.6	Plus, a latent feature of some Tesla's might soon awaken.
0:15.6	Tesla looks to standardize electrical connectors in the industry and more.
0:23.6	Music standardized electrical connectors in the industry and more. What's happening, friends? I'm Ryan McCaffrey, joining you as I do every single week for Ride the Lightning, the Tesla unofficial podcast. This one's publishing on November 3rd, 2024. It's episode 483. To my left, Daisy the Boxer puppyppy, who went as an In-N-Out Burger employee for Halloween.
0:57.7	If you'd like to see a picture of that, it is on my Instagram page.
1:01.3	It was quite a funny costume. Got some good laughs at my day job at IGN.
1:07.3	As I get the show started this week, I want to say congratulations to my Canadian listeners
1:11.9	who have been waiting and waiting to get their cyber trucks.
1:15.3	This is the week.
1:17.7	Longtime listener and Patreon backer Will Stedman emailed me to excitedly tell me that Tuesday,
1:24.2	November 5th is his target day, and this week in general is when Foundation
1:29.7	Series is scheduled to begin delivering for Canadian customers.
1:34.1	So to my neighbors to the north, enjoy those trucks.
1:39.5	Another little warm up here, a mini milestone within the Tesla Fremont factory, specifically
1:45.3	that's the one that's about 45 minutes from my house southeast of me, and that is the GA4
1:52.1	production line, aka the infamous tent, the sprung structure, produced its millionth vehicle this past week.
2:02.2	Tesla noted the achievement on X with a post that says, quote,
2:06.0	Big Tent came a long way with a photo of the first car coming off of that line.
2:12.1	Back on June 8th, 2018, a black Model 3.
2:17.1	And then the millionth vehicle to come off of that line,
2:20.8	a white Model Y on October 25th of, of course, 2024.
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