Episode 59: Better Autopilot, an Elon Musk Impersonator, and More Wackiness
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2016
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk details drastic changes coming to the way the current Autopilot on Teslas works, the New York Times writes a controversial new article about Tesla and the Chevy Bolt, LA residents might have their homes powered at times by a new Tesla Powerwall installation, an oil company executive gets sued for impersonating Elon Musk in an effort to get confidential information, MobilEye's breakup with Tesla gets ugly, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.4 | Elon Musk details drastic changes coming to the way current |
| 0:07.0 | autopilot works. The New York Times writes a controversial new article |
| 0:10.9 | about Tesla and the Chevy Bolt. LA residents might have their homes. controversial new |
| 0:13.4 | article about Tesla and the Chevy Bolt. |
| 0:13.0 | LA residents might have their homes powered at times |
| 0:16.2 | by a new Tesla Powerwall installation. |
| 0:18.4 | An oil company executive gets sued for impersonating Elon Musk in an effort to get confidential information, |
| 0:24.8 | mobilize breakup with Tesla gets ugly and a lot more in a hugely busy week. Welcome to Ride The Lightning. It is the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast episode |
| 0:55.4 | number 59 for September 18th 2016, aka my final podcast as a 35 year old. |
| 1:03.0 | Didn't mean to freak you out there for a second. |
| 1:04.8 | My birthday is on Tuesday, the 20th. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm looking forward to it. |
| 1:08.9 | My age 35 season, as we would say in the baseball world has treated me well. |
| 1:15.0 | You know mostly by I mean this this podcast took place taken mostly place |
| 1:22.0 | during my since I've been 35 but took place |
| 1:22.6 | since I've been 35. |
| 1:24.8 | But it's been a good year. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm looking forward to the end of my mid 30s. |
| 1:30.0 | Because like 36 is kind of the last year, |
| 1:32.3 | you can say mid 30s. Because that 30. because that 37 is like, |
| 1:35.0 | 37 is like late 40s, but if you're shopping for me, |
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