53 - Crash test dummies are people too

Ian Pavelko, Eric Camacho and I talk about new firmware, Walmart suing Tesla, and our epic day at the Transport Canada test track

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FSD price increase delayed until v10 wide release in "4 to 8 weeks"; v10 currently in early access phase

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1163903521701294081

Tesla's FSD computer chips: 21x faster than Nvidia—two for redundancy—at 80% of the cost

https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-tesla-self-driving-car-computer-and-its-two-ai-brains/

GF3 in China gets vital certificate, enters production equipment debugging phase, could have initial activation by the end of September

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-gigafactory-3-acceptance-certificate-inspection-record-time/

GF4 in Emden or Emsland in Lower Saxon, Germany

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-europe-gigafactory-4-location-lower-saxony-germany/

Walmart sues Tesla over solar panel fires, but it’s more complicated than that

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-walmart-tesla-solar-lawsuit/walmart-sues-tesla-for-negligence-after-repeated-solar-system-fires-idUSKCN1VA26B

Tesla drives diesel freefall in Norway with some models dropping 95% in sales since 2013

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-drives-norway-diesel-freefall/

Sandy Munro: Tesla has a 10-year lead over U.S. automakers

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/21/sandy-munro-states-tesla-has-a-10-year-lead-over-us-automakers/

SpaceX's Starman and Elon's Roadster have completed one full orbit around the Sun

https://www.space.com/spacex-starman-tesla-falcon-heavy-first-orbit-sun.html

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