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Firmware 9 in August will start rolling out full self-driving features!!!
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I would make a slight refinement to this: It is a signal of his intent, which is probably not shared by, nor even sanity-checked by, his lieutenants and the engineers actually tasked with doing the work. Might be better to use the word "whim" rather than "intent" when talking about Mr. Musk.
Why is Tesla investing resources in a pickup truck big enough to carry a normal full-size pickup truck in its bed? This is a fun fantasy for his ego but such a vehicle would not sell well because it won't fit in anybody's garage. Maybe they should invest resources in fulfilling the promises they've already accepted payment for instead.
Notably, this claim was backed up during the same earnings call by the actual lieutenants working on the new chip/autopilot. It was one of those(I forget precisely which one) who actually stated that freeway->freeway was coming in this update.
boonedocks
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Just don’t hold your breath. I wish it would be released “soon” but after 4 years of Tesla ownership...@Elonmusk tweets and prognostications from Quarterly Earnings Reports and Annual Stockholders MeetIng letdowns.....I am not anticipating it will be released for at least 2-3 months Maybe December if we are lucky.
MelaniainLA
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It’s weird. It’s a publicly traded company. For the CEO to make these unfulfilled promises simply exposes the entire company to (even more) shareholder lawsuits for making false promises. A pattern of these statements can be interpreted as fraud. For the sake of the company, he should avoid saying ANY dates and simply say “these are the things we are working on. Some might make it to market, many will not.”
We have seen a decrease in the frequency of updates and the only thing we are seeing is bug fixes (likely hotfixes on the prior versions)
My speculation is that the dev team has shifted focus to finalize the review/testing of the v9 release. If Musk said it will roll out to early access program in August, then it will probably happen in September, and we might see a full rollout in October.
We all know Musk is an optimist, but I also think he's just not a software guy so he doesn't have a good feel for the complexity of some of the things he promises.
I just want them to at least show what's in the v9 by the end of August. So much suspense!
fasteddie7
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I wonder how many engineers and programmers hear about new features for the first time from Elon's tweets.
Let’s push out v9 before it is ready so everyone can complain about it. Patience my young Jedi. The car is already light years ahead and awesome.
Software(and hardware) delays are pretty common across companies, publicly traded or not.
ucmndd
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A CEO that speaks first, thinks later, and has a company that is perpetually 6-36 months behind his mouth is not normal. We shouldn’t pretend that it is.
I love me some Elon and love my car but the BS hype machine is getting old fast.
Q2 transcript:
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha
Quote Elon (August 2nd):
" ... the version 9 software release which has got a number of really cool things in it. And we're hoping to get that out to early access program in about four weeks and then broadly in September. "
He also tweeted on August 6th:
"... Major enhancements to Autopilot & fun games coming in a month with V9.0."
Robert Scoble on Twitter
There's "hoping" and "start rolling out". I dare say anyone expecting a glimpse of V9 in August (in the form of an early access leak) is an optimist.
Even if it was making its way to the early access program around that time, given the number of Bugfix releases recently (and from my experience of owning a Tesla for 3 years now starting with V6.1), there is no good reason to believe a major version update is not going to be significantly bugged. Hence the "then broadly in September" is also an optimist estimate.
Sorry for raining on anyone's parade, I'd love to see massive new features rolled out more than anyone, but many people seem to be reading too much into quite flexible wording.
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | Seeking Alpha
Quote Elon (August 2nd):
" ... the version 9 software release which has got a number of really cool things in it. And we're hoping to get that out to early access program in about four weeks and then broadly in September. "
He also tweeted on August 6th:
"... Major enhancements to Autopilot & fun games coming in a month with V9.0."
Robert Scoble on Twitter
There's "hoping" and "start rolling out". I dare say anyone expecting a glimpse of V9 in August (in the form of an early access leak) is an optimist.
Even if it was making its way to the early access program around that time, given the number of Bugfix releases recently (and from my experience of owning a Tesla for 3 years now starting with V6.1), there is no good reason to believe a major version update is not going to be significantly bugged. Hence the "then broadly in September" is also an optimist estimate.
Sorry for raining on anyone's parade, I'd love to see massive new features rolled out more than anyone, but many people seem to be reading too much into quite flexible wording.
ucmndd
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Which is only the latest hedge after spinning up the hype machine back in June (which itself was the start of this very thread).
Elon Musk on Twitter
Kant.Ing
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Which was vindicated by the August 6th "in one month" tweet. So in my book the "official hype machine date" is September 6th, which is still 10 days away.
My guess is that by xmas, we will get Atari games and whole new set of bugs..
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