{"id":2545,"date":"2014-11-02T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T04:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:12:53","slug":"tesla-autopilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2014\/11\/tesla-autopilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Autopilot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love hearing Elon Musk talk. He gets right to the point and tells people what they want to hear. His presentations have showmanship without verbal fluff. The official recording of a huge announcement for the Model S: the&nbsp;all-wheel drive&nbsp;and Autopilot, is shorter than 15 minutes. Here it is:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla Unveils Dual Motor and Autopilot\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FZ6lZJWL_Xk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The live presentation was slightly longer. When Elon started to talk about Autopilot,&nbsp;the car being held by a robot for the dual-motor display&nbsp;was obscuring&nbsp;the audience&#8217;s view of the&nbsp;presentation, so there was a minute or so of the robot going through what I assume was a pre-programmed sequence to show off and then lower the car.&nbsp;Elon laughed it off with a simple &#8220;Robots.&#8221; But anyway,&nbsp;this stuff is so cool. I love technology. Here&#8217;s a video of some people trying out the new car:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tesla Model S P85D AWD and auto-pilot demo\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7quu551ehc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose now would be a good time to disclose that I own some Tesla stock, but as you&#8217;ve hopefully gathered from my multiple other posts about electric cars and autonomous cars, that&#8217;s definitely not why I&#8217;m writing about this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, speaking of electric cars, I&#8217;ve been starting to see the BMW i3 around a little more recently. I caught a quick shot of one while driving in Mountain View the other day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"BMW i3\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/BMW_i3-1.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fun to see a production car that looks like it&#8217;s from the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love hearing Elon Musk talk. He gets right to the point and tells people what they want to hear. His presentations have showmanship without verbal fluff. The official recording of a huge announcement for the Model S: the&nbsp;all-wheel drive&nbsp;and Autopilot, is shorter than 15 minutes. Here it is: The live presentation was slightly longer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2014\/11\/tesla-autopilot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tesla Autopilot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}