Interviews

Past Tesletter articles

Elon Musk receives the Axel Springer Award 2020

Live streaming of the event, which took place last December 1st in Berlin, and another great interview with Elon Musk. He answers questions about going to Mars, fully autonomous cars, the role of AI in society, why Berlin to build the first Gigafactory in Europe, and even some personal questions like why techno music is important to him.

From issue #140

Elon Musk talks Autopilot (amongst other things) with Lex Fridman

Another (3rd) interview of Elon by Alex Fridman. The interview covers a lot of ground, Tesla and non-Tesla related. Here are some interesting bits that are Tesla related:

  • There is a major effort to reduce end-to-end latency and variability in latency from image sensor inputs to control outputs.
  • In the future, the system will consume raw outputs from the image sensors.
  • Some parts of the systems are still operating on single cameras, those are in the process of being replaced by cameras of all cameras.
  • Tesla is working on improving ’the memory’ of the system, aka what the car saw just a few seconds ago.
From issue #196

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about

About one hour interview where Elon talks about Tesla, Space X, and the future of humanity.

From issue #212

Elon Musk: Part II | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

The second interview with Elon Musk by Lex Fridman. This, as the first part, is a really interesting interview to peek a bit on Elon’s head and see how he thinks about AI, Autopilot, and Neuralink, amongst other interesting things!

From issue #86

Elon's Story, Part 1

The folks at Third Row Tesla Podcast had the chance to interview Elon Musk in person a couple of weeks ago. As you may or may not know, we normally don’t include articles about Elon’s personal life in this newsletter but in this case, we’re making an exception. If like us, you’re passionate about Tesla, I’m sure you’ll enjoy listening to Elon Musk sharing his story and why he put everything on the like to build SpaceX and Tesla.

From issue #95

Interview to Elon Musk and Todd Howard

Interesting interview to Elon and Todd Howard (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout) about games and Tesla. This interview includes a first look at Cuphead and Beach Buggy Racing 2 running on a Model 3. If you are into games at all, I recommend you to check it out!

BTW, Tesla just announced their event ‘Experience the Tesla Arcade’ in all showroooms from now until the end of the month. You can bring your friends and family to a Tesla showroom to experience the new Tesla Arcade by RSVPing here.

From issue #64

Interview with Elon Musk

A 20-minute interview with Elon Musk where he talks about battery cell production plans in Berlin, original vehicle designs in Berlin and Shanghai, the environmental impact of what Tesla is doing, and more.

From issue #139

Ryan McCaffrey interviews Franz

Ryan McCaffrey, from the podcast Ride The Lightning, had the opportunity to interview Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen. This is rare since Franz doesn’t normally give many interviews and Ryan did a great job at interviewing him (you can tell his full-time job is interviewing people). Listen to it if you haven’t done it yet!

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From issue #82

Sandy Munro interviews Elon Musk

Elon and Sandy talk about Tesla production, mega-castings, Model 3 seats, structural battery packs, MBA’s, and short-sellers.

From issue #149