Wow that got flagged/blocked fast for the copyrighted music. I'll try uploaded to dropbox. I believe I have a 20gb data cap before this link gets banned, so the first 25 downloaders should be fine. Dropbox - Tesla Semi Unveil.mp4
Before I sit through that video, can someone confirm it does/does not have the dropped/frozen portions that bedeviled the livestream?
Yeah, I looked at several on YouTube the morning after the launch, and they all had that ... ... then i googled and found it on Tesla's site (on the page with the Semi / Roadster reservation), but as @shokunin said earlier that's now gone. Perhaps Tesla had some sort of time-limited license for the music? I can't see that anything, which breaches copyright on the music, is going to survive on YouTube for very long Would be a great pity if the presentation was no longer available, I enjoyed being sat in front of my screen watching it, how sad is that?!, but all the time I was wishing it had been on YouTube so I could watch it at a faster frame rate ...
The fact that it was able to do so many Plaid runs back to back to back, where the S cannot, gives me hope the Roadster can perform on a track. Congrats on your order. I have to wait for TSLA to appreciate more
Since the reveal I've pondered that some more. The demo process was: Punter gets in (not an instant process!) Short bit of chat. Taxi to launch point. Wait a bit. Launch Circle round at the end, drive back leisurely-ish Circle round at the other end Park up. Some final chat Q&A with punter Punter gets out (also not an instant process!) For sure the battery needed to be able to deliver that number of launches (I saw a clip where the driver said he had started on 90-something and been doing launches "all evening" and was now on 60-something). But it seems to be that there was a lot of recovery time (to cool down / whatever) available in the way the demos were timetabled May be irrelevant of course
Yes, each run had about 2 seconds of full power and the rest was only low level power use and sitting still waiting. If there were 50 test runs that night that would be less than 2 total minutes of full power use.