2014 Annual Shareholders Meeting

[FANGO]

....Why would he need to do a round trip with no charging at all? There's tons of chargers in San Francisco and a supercharger between the places. Does he plan to just drive into SF and turn around and go back without stopping?

I'm glad Elon told him no, at least.

 

[FluxCap]

Dave is on !! .... Thankyou so much for asking about lanthrop !

Nice questions, Dave.

 

[ecarfan]

Lathrop explained, finally. Need to move some component production out of Fremont so that the plant can produce half million vehicles per year when Gen III really ramps up. No mystery.

 

[ecarfan]

"Less than a year to go from highway on ramp to highway exit without touching the controls". Wow.

 

[Runarbt]

"Less than a year to go from highway on ramp to highway exit without touching the controls". Wow.

agree.. that was my exact my reply also.. Wow!

 

[AnOutsider]

Self-driving doesn't seem to be at the point Google is, but from on-ramp to exit ramp without touching controls within the next year

 

[blakegallagher]

... wow He said within a year you would be able to do that (auto driving on highways) ... do you think he meant in production ? or they would be able to in their testing? If they get that into production within a year ... Wow

 

[FANGO]

"Less than a year to go from highway on ramp to highway exit without touching the controls". Wow.

I'd like to see some execution on this. Elon has talked a lot about self-driving but so far the Model S has nothing of the sort. I would expect that if there will be full automation on the highway, we would have seen something by now. So hopefully we get something soon. Because these things need to be stepped into gradually, "public beta tested," etc. Unless they're just going to use Mercedes' system or something (which seems plenty possible).

Note by the way that on-ramp to off-ramp would suggest the car will change lanes for you, which I don't believe any other car currently does.

 

[AnOutsider]

... wow He said within a year you would be able to do that (auto driving on highways) ... do you think he meant in production ? or they would be able to in their testing? If they get that into production within a year ... Wow

I would welcome it, but doubt it would be in production. That would mean those ordering an X now would potentially be able to choose it as an option. I'm thinking he more meant their tech would be at that point and they'd be able to show it off.

I'd love to be wrong though.

I'd like to see some execution on this. Elon has talked a lot about self-driving but so far the Model S has nothing of the sort. I would expect that if there will be full automation on the highway, we would have seen something by now. So hopefully we get something soon. Because these things need to be stepped into gradually, "public beta tested," etc. Unless they're just going to use Mercedes' system or something (which seems plenty possible).

Note by the way that on-ramp to off-ramp would suggest the car will change lanes for you, which I don't believe any other car currently does.

Especially since we don't even have adaptive cruise yet.

 

[yobigd20]

Self-driving doesn't seem to be at the point Google is, but from on-ramp to exit ramp without touching controls within the next year

google's self driving car is limited to 25mph because of the removal of steering wheel and brakes. big difference between tesla's version and google's version.

 

[techmaven]

Lathrop explained, finally. Need to move some component production out of Fremont so that the plant can produce half million vehicles per year when Gen III really ramps up. No mystery.

What is interesting is the move to do it now instead of next year or the year after.

 

[FANGO]

I would welcome it, but doubt it would be in production. That would mean those ordering an X now would potentially be able to choose it as an option. I'm thinking he more meant their tech would be at that point and they'd be able to show it off.

I'd love to be wrong though.

I actually think the first time we'll get "self-driving" stuff (external sensors, like lane change warnings, adaptive cruise, etc. etc.) will be when X comes out, and they'll get added to S as an option at the same time. Just a guess on my part.

 

[FluxCap]

"Less than a year to go from highway on ramp to highway exit without touching the controls". Wow.

Double Wow!

 

[Alfred]

Watched it here in Zurich (Switzerland). No problem, well done Tesla.

 

[arondaniel]

Lol... Hello Elon I'm a day trader so can you please say something to goose the stock price so my sell order hits? KTHX!

 

[Yuri_G]

google's self driving car is limited to 25mph because of the removal of steering wheel and brakes. big difference between tesla's version and google's version.

It has brakes, just no break pedal. And I believe the 25 mph speed limit is because it is not legally allowed to drive on public roads, so it is limited to driving around the Googleplex at reasonable speeds.

 

[green1]

Lol... Hello Elon I'm a day trader so can you please say something to goose the stock price so my sell order hits? KTHX!

And people wonder why he won't take SpaceX public....

 

[FANGO]

Well I hope the full video gets put up soon, because my stream died right in the part I was most interested in, the Roadster upgrades :-/

I got most of it, but not the tail end of the answer.

 

[dalalsid]

He said the production X looks "better" than this, but this picture looks different than what we saw. More angular and longer?

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Somehow this doesn't look as nice as the Model X on the website.

 

[techmaven]

I'm so furious. The majority of these questions were inane. Good to see DaveT and thanks for slipping in that Lanthrop question.