Episode 543: Tesla Patent Aims to Give FSD 'Sunglasses'
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
A new Tesla patent aims to tackle the issue of sun glare affecting FSD at low light angles by giving the system, in my words, sunglasses. Plus: Tesla boosts battery production efforts at Giga Berlin, a deeper look at tire manufacturer's warranties and how they might be able to benefit EV drivers, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On this week's episode of Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast, a new Tesla patent |
| 0:05.8 | aims to tackle the issue of sun glare affecting FSD at low light angles by giving the system, |
| 0:12.4 | in my words, sunglasses. |
| 0:15.2 | Plus, Tesla boosts battery production efforts at Gigaburlin, a deeper look at tire manufacturer's warranties |
| 0:22.6 | and how they might be able to benefit EV drivers and more. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. What's happening, friends, and happy holidays to all of you. |
| 0:50.6 | My name is Ryan McCaffrey. |
| 0:54.6 | You all know that, unless this is your first episode, in which case, welcome to Ride the Lightning, the Tesla and EV podcast. It's a weekly podcast where I cover all things Tesla, |
| 1:00.6 | all things interesting in the EV space. This is episode 543, publishing on December 28, 2025. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm recording a smidge earlier than I normally would. Typically, |
| 1:13.8 | I record on Friday evenings and then release the episode for everybody on Sunday morning at |
| 1:19.8 | 9am, Eastern, 6 a.m. Pacific. It'll still be released at the same time here, but I'm recording |
| 1:25.4 | this a little earlier in the day here on December 26th, a Friday, |
| 1:30.3 | as we've got some larger, bigger extended family plans going on tonight. So figured I'd get the |
| 1:37.6 | podcast done and out of the way. And those of you who are kindly backing me on Patreon will get |
| 1:43.5 | extra early access. I mean, you guys might |
| 1:46.5 | have family plans as well. Listen to it at your convenience. It's all good. Thanks to all of |
| 1:51.2 | you kindly backing me on Patreon. So welcome to the final Ride the Lightning episode of 2025. |
| 1:58.4 | No, no, don't worry. That sentence did have an additional couple words there. |
| 2:02.5 | It's not the last episode ever, not even close. We're just getting warmed up after 10 years of this. |
| 2:07.9 | But the final Ride the Lightning publishing in 2025, there will be 52 more coming your way next year. |
| 2:22.0 | And in fact, kicking that off the first episode of 2026 next week will be my annual Tesla New Year's predictions, although I guess you know what? I think I might |
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