Hey everybody Rob Manward here and today we've got a couple more updates on the Cyber Truck we also have news on FSD Beta, an update from NHTSA on the status of Tesla's autopilot investigation and a few other items as well.
Looking at the markets quickly, the reaction to Nvidia earnings was pretty short lived, the NASDAQ today down 1.9% tesled down 2.9% to close at $230.04 and even Nvidia despite the beat finishing flat today. Good thing that didn't miss. And like some of the Fed comments already out of Jackson Hole are starting to maybe impact the market and that will continue into tomorrow as Fed Chair Jerome Powell comments as well.
Alright we've got another day here with a handful of Cyber Truck updates. First is a continuation of the images that we talked about from Reddit yesterday. I hadn't noticed at the time but a couple more details seem to be coming through from those photos. The first of which, unless there's some really weird reflections happening here and really consistent reflections happening here, there seems to be some ambient lighting on the interior of the Cyber Truck as we can see these straight red lines across the dash and around the perimeter of the interior. So this seems to be a new detail. I'll withhold judgement for now because I think like with all things Cyber Truck it's difficult to get a sense for how this really feels in person just from the pictures alone. But always fun to see some new features.
And then the other thing that people are speculating on seeing from these images is if we look at the center display, people are saying that that might show a view of the front bumper camera, which of course we've seen the hardware for previously but have never seen the video feed from that let alone seeing that on the center screen. If we look very closely at this, if we zoom in, we can see that the car that is on the display here, we're seeing the tail lights of it. That gives an indication that this car is positioned in front of the Cyber Truck rather than behind because parking rear bumper to rear bumper would be pretty unusual. At least for street parking which if we very quickly flip back to the first image, we can see that the Cyber Truck here is street parked. We can also see the front bumper of a white car behind the Cyber Truck so unless this moves significantly, that sort of setup would seem very unlikely. Furthermore, if we go back to that zoomed in image, we can see what seems to be a little gray or silver sedan off to the right, which matches the car and importantly the orientation of the car that we can see through the front windshield, which if this were a rear camera would also be a very strange orientation for these cars to be in. So in my opinion, it looks pretty conclusively like this is the front bumper camera. And although obviously the photo here is pixelated, it does look to be pretty good quality from at least what we can tell. So a couple of exciting things here. Let me know if you're picking up on anything else and sorry for missing those the first time around yesterday. Just add a minute to briefly look at those before the stream was starting.
A few more things on Cyber Truck today. First video of a video again from Reddit from Rambo Trucker, which gives us a good view of how the tail lights, the brake lights, turn signals are going to work. I will say from the video, it looks like this could be at least a little bit confusing because during non-breaking you've got the whole entire red light strip lit up and then during breaking you actually have less of it lit up. But you do of course then get the tail lights and you get the three distinct brake lights that are required. But it does seem a little bit unintuitive though again because this is a video it might not do a great job of giving us the full impact of what this seems like in reality. Maybe those three lights are much brighter, which completely changes things and all of a sudden it looks completely normal and intuitive and fine. So definitely something that I'll be curious to see but not something that I'm going to overreact to right now. Also kind of interesting that that straight red light for the non-breaking view does kind of match what we're seeing in the interior lights with those straight red lines from those previous photos.
The final new image today seems to come from the factory floor directly. It's a side shot of the vehicle frame with the interior pretty much fully installed. But in this case a little bit of an upward angle so we get a better shot of the windshield and how far back that extends. You can see the sun visors there. Not sure how good of a look we've gotten at those. Obviously you can see the metal pedals, the glove box area, seat risers, you can see the controls for the seating position, although we have seen those previously. But overall a pretty good look and a new perspective of the interior.
We also talked yesterday about the delivery event invite being added to the referral program no date on that yet but an interesting update here from Brooks of Drag Times reposting this on Instagram and saying who's going? I'll take delivery of mine at the event. Now obviously could just be joking around here but if this is accurate we'll definitely add some credence to the rumors we talked yesterday about regarding some customers having been informed to start preparing for delivery. I wouldn't quite take this as confirmation yet but interesting to see and we'll keep an eye out if anyone else shares a similar comment.
Lastly, on the cyber truck then Jeff Roberts drawn a fly over video of Giga Texas spotted seven different cyber trucks at Giga Texas today so again kind of tracks with that 5 or 10 vehicle production rate that seems to have been roughly what we've been seeing over the last few days. Obviously some of those could end up being duplicates so it does make it a little bit difficult to tell so worth keeping that in mind as well.
Alright moving on a couple quick notes on FSD looks like version 11.4.7 has started to roll out to some employees and Holmars has posted the release notes for this version. The release notes are still the same as 11.4.6 so we won't go through them since we have done that previously. Unfortunately though this means that we'll see that roll out pretty soon. Unfortunately it does look like this is still on the same branch as the older other software non FSD software so it looks like we'll have to wait longer for that merge to happen.
And then on FSD beta version 12 of course last week Elon said that he hoped to do a livestream of version 12 in action next week which would be this week. Dirty Tesla on X asking for an update on that and Elon said that he might be able to squeeze that in tomorrow. That would be cool at the same time though I think there's only so much we'll be able to learn from one FSD drive if it were to happen. Now of course if there is some next level maneuvering in that livestream by chance then that would be awesome but I think even with version 12 it's still going to take Tesla a lot of time to iterate beyond that so I'm setting my expectations accordingly.
Next we've got a report from Reuters on NHTSA comments on their investigation that has been ongoing for a long time on autopilot. They say that they are going to resolve this investigation and could be making an announcement soon although she declined to discuss how the investigation might be resolved but said quote hopefully you'll hear something relatively soon end quote. So this relates to autopilot safety in general and particularly there seem to be a focus on driver monitoring which obviously has evolved for Tesla over the last couple of years and I'm sure that has evolved in part with conversations with NHTSA. So hopefully this resolution is nothing too crazy or nothing too unexpected. It'll be nice to have sort of the official investigation closed. Thinking that the resolution isn't anything crazy but obviously NHTSA whether they're technically investigating or not is always going to continue to monitor the progress from Tesla as they should definitely a part of the job. So we'll keep an eye out for that.
And the next we've got an update from Tesla Roddy on Tesla's drive-in diner slash movie theater supercharging location in Los Angeles. Tesla Roddy has learned that Tesla received approval for their permits on this on July 18th so last month and then earlier this month Tesla Roddy says the initial grading inspection was completed and approved so we should be seeing more from Tesla on this relatively soon. Obviously kind of a novel concept it'll be interesting to watch develop and if Tesla kind of keeps that as a fun one-off or some of those ideas make their way into some projects more broadly.
Alright last few things the Folsom police department in California has decided to add two Teslas to their police vehicle fleet. Always nice to see those additions continue and then Ford has announced a special matte black version of the F-150 Lightning it'll cost around $100,000 I think they're only going to make a couple thousand of these but looks pretty cool and interesting to see Ford emphasizing the lightning around this time especially with that kind of a look as we hear more and more about Cybertruck.
And then lastly we won't spend a ton of time on this but the Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit against SpaceX claiming there has been a hiring discrimination against refugees and a silays from late 2018 to mid 2022. Now of course with the type of business that SpaceX is involved in and sometimes the defense related nature of those businesses SpaceX obviously has to account for those things in their hiring process so my interpretation of the situation here without doing a ton of research on it is that SpaceX was probably over cautious to the letter of the law which given the work I think seems hard to fault but nevertheless fault taken with it here. So we'll keep an eye on what comes of that but those are my initial thoughts.
Alright that is it for today then so as always thank you for listening make sure you subscribe to inside of for notifications you can also find me on the X at Tesla podcast and we'll see you tomorrow for the Friday August 25th episode of Tesla daily. Thank you.
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