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Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

NHTSA Requests Tesla Data, Musk Comments on Roadster, Production Ramps, Rivian R1T (09.01.21)

Tesla Daily: Tesla News & Analysis

Rob Maurer

Tsla, Model3, Technology, News, Tesla, Investing, Tech News, Modely, Business, Models, Modelx

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

➤ NHTSA requests information from Tesla in relation to Autopilot investigation (https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INIM-PE21020-84913P.pdf)
➤ Elon Musk comments on next-gen Tesla Roadster production timeline
➤ Discussion on production ramps from Giga Berlin and Giga Texas
➤ Autopilot team employee teases FSD Beta
➤ Model Y vehicles line up at Beijing DMV
➤ Motor Trend reviews the Rivian R1T

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Executive producer Jeremy Cooke
Executive producer Troy Cherasaro
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Executive producer Jessie Chimni
Executive producer Jeffrey Yu
Executive producer John Beans
Executive producer Michael Pastrone
Music by Evan Schaeffer

Disclosure: Rob Maurer is long TSLA stock & derivatives

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody Rob, now we're here, and today we've got a couple of updates on Knitza's ongoing

0:11.5

investigation on Tesla's automated driving assistance system.

0:15.2

Finally an update from Elon on the Roadster, the New Gigafactory's as well, then some

0:18.8

news on Rivian and Mort.

0:21.3

Tesla Stock dropped a bit throughout the day, finishing down 2.10% to $734.9, that compared

0:27.3

to the NASDAQ up about 3.10% of a percent.

0:29.7

Alright, so today we got our first update on Knitza's preliminary evaluation of Tesla's

0:33.9

automated driving assistance system.

0:35.7

I'll assume everyone is familiar with the background on that, but basically Knitza

0:38.6

looking into crashes of Tesla vehicles with first responders or law enforcement roadside.

0:43.6

Initially, the incident list was 11 of these crashes, but as we talked about a few days

0:47.8

ago, another one did just recently occur in Orlando, so that has now officially been

0:51.7

added to the incident list as well, bringing the total up to 12.

0:55.3

The other news is that yesterday, Knitza sent a letter to Tesla informing them of the

0:58.9

investigation, obviously Tesla would have been aware of that already, but informing them

1:02.5

of the investigation and requesting a significant amount of information from Tesla.

1:07.4

The letter is 11 pages, sometimes these source files can be a little bit tricky to find,

1:11.3

so I will put the link to the PDF in the description.

1:14.5

We won't go through point by point, that's why the link is there if you do wanna do that,

1:17.7

but Knitza basically looking for 11 major categories of information from Tesla, all pretty

1:22.4

highly detailed, just as a couple of examples they were looking for a list of every vehicle

1:27.0

that Tesla has manufactured, the model model year, the date of manufacture of warranty,

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