Episode 64: Tesla's Self-Driving Future Starts Now
Ride the Lightning: Tesla and EV Podcast
Ryan McCaffrey
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2016
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tesla's unexpected product announcement turned out to be Part 2 of the Model 3 reveal...sort of. It's about fully autonomous Teslas. They're here, at least hardware-wise. Let's talk about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up this week on Ride the Lightning the Tesla Motors Unofficial Podcast, |
| 0:03.5 | Tesla's unexpected product announcement turned out to be part two of the |
| 0:07.8 | model three reveal. |
| 0:09.3 | Sort of. |
| 0:10.7 | It's all about fully autonomous Tesla's. They're here, at least hardware wise. Let's talk about it. Oh, Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever time of day it is, wherever you are listening to this podcast. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you so much for joining me. My name is |
| 0:43.9 | Ryan McCaffrey. This is the Tesla Motors unofficial podcast, otherwise known as Ride the Lightning. |
| 0:50.0 | Ryan McCaffrey joining you alongside a very relaxed Maggie the Boxer who is currently doing |
| 0:56.3 | her nightly ritual of laying on top of the couch which she is completely pulled away from the couch backing. |
| 1:06.4 | A couch is absolutely destroyed. |
| 1:09.3 | It's on the shopping list, but she's looking out. |
| 1:12.3 | She just likes to look out the window at night. |
| 1:14.0 | Anyway episode 64 here for October 23rd 2016 and the big announcement |
| 1:21.0 | that Elon Musk had teased last week now it was supposed to happen on Monday |
| 1:26.1 | and of course I put the show out on Sunday so I was like oh man I just missed it again go figure |
| 1:32.3 | he ended up delaying it until Wednesday I just missed it again, go figure. |
| 1:32.8 | He ended up delaying it until Wednesday, |
| 1:35.1 | so that at least made the show a little less stale. |
| 1:40.0 | And as you probably heard by now, |
| 1:42.6 | the big announcement was Autopilot 2 or Hardware 2, |
| 1:47.2 | as Elon is referring to it, |
| 1:49.4 | every single Tesla from here on out |
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