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Tesla release versions odd numbers have historically been betas only pushed to a handfull number of users (3 - 5 according to Teslafi) under an NDA. Last time that a beta was rolled out was a few weeks before the NN rewrote, so we have high hopes that this one includes something big as well. The lucky ones who have rooted their Tesla are dropping some bits of info on TMC, see below (Thanks BigD0g and dennis_d for all the info!):
Check out the pictures, thank you Mat Jensen for sharing!
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Read more: Twitter
Multiple people have reported this in Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands.
Per conversation on Twitter, it seems like Tesla is trying to sell higher price versions first in order to avoid negative margins.
Read more: Reddit
Tesla reduces stopping distance by nearly 20 feet after OTA braking update. Just wow!
Read more: Consumer Reports
Model 3 version 8.2 will allow Tesla owners to report bugs via voice, select a song from the Tesla app, and receive blind spot notifications, according to Elon Musk’s tweet.
Read more: Twitter
Ryan is an airline pilot and flight instructor, as well as a Model S owner. In this episode of Supercharged Podcast he compares his experience with autopilot in airliners and Teslas.
Read more: Supercharged Podcast
“Lots of exciting recent work in large-scale distributed training of neural nets: (very) large-batch SGD, KFAC, ES, population-based training / ENAS, (online) distillation, …” - said
Andrej Karpathy on Twitter.
According to jimmy_d Karpathy’s tweet is referring to recent and substantial advances in techniques that enable efficient partitioning of experiments across thousands of machines.
Read more: TMC Forums
Lukcyj was able to capture one of the anonymous snapshot/image/video uploads that got pushed out over his home network. So far, only partial success in getting anything useful out of it. One example is below.
Read more: TMC Forum
As charging infrastructure grows across the country, electric car manufacturers are reassuring owners that long road trips are just as feasible as with fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
To illustrate this, USA TODAY asked electric car maker Tesla to identify charging options on five popular long distance routes across the country.
Read more: USA TODAY
As Tesla fan I find myself sometimes having to remember what are all those acronyms, here is a list of the ones you can find in this issue.
