– On their quarterly earnings call, Panasonic’s CEO comments on their production targets and relationship with Tesla
– Adam Jonas asks GM’s CEO about EV production volume
– Elon Musk buys more TSLA shares on the open market
– Daimler and Volkswagen CEO’s make comments referencing Tesla
– Faraday Future co-founder resigns
– Jimmy_d joins the podcast to expand on his post from the Tesla Motors Club forum about neural networks and what he is seeing in the most recent Autopilot software update
Timestamps:
1:19 – Jimmy_d’s background
3:39 – Background on neural networks
11:04 – Autopilot structure and outputs
16:54 – Inception V1 network
20:29 – Network training & weighting
23:59 – Autonomous driving development paths
26:09 – Lidar & the DARPA challenge
38:49 – Fleet learning
43:34 – Operating the vehicle
50:49 – New network in V9
1:06:54 – Processing power
– Tesla surprisingly schedules its Q3 earnings report on short notice for Wednesday, 10/24
– Vocal TSLA shortseller Andrew Left’s Citron Research changes its stance on TSLA and takes a long position on the stock ahead of earnings (Link to report)
– Discussion on Tesla’s quarter to date production numbers
– Tesla updates referral program to include all vehicles
– Elon tweets that navigate on autopilot will begin rolling out to United States
– Continuing discussion on the possible reasons for the introduction of the mid-range Model 3
– Tesla removes full self driving option from Model S/X design studios following a similar removal from Model 3 yesterday
– Tesla acquires land in China for Gigafactory 3
– Elon Musk intends to buy $20M of TSLA stock
– Tesla VP of manufacturing, Gilbert Passin has left the company
