Category: Gail’s Tesla Podcast

Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 45 featuring: Austin, Texas by Night During the Holidays

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Austin, Texas

Have you ever been to Austin? Almost all of my podcast videos that feature Tesla FSD beta take place in Austin, Texas. There is a festive feeling around the city at Christmastime. The Texas State Senate puts up a tree and each Senator is invited to bring an ornament that represents the district they represent. The Capital has trees in the House Chambers and a tree outside by Congress Street.

Tesla Ho Ho Ho or “Santa Mode”

In this video, you’ll enjoy Austin during the holidays by night while we run Tesla “Santa” mode on FSD beta in the Model Y. You can activate this any time of year by just pressing your car’s voice control on the steering wheel and saying out loud, “Start ho ho ho mode!”

We’ll start in the Northern part of the city, allowing FSD beta to flawlessly bring us downtown and to the outdoor capital complex at night. We’ll then supervise the vehicle as it traverses Congress Street, heading from South to North to get another great view of the Christmas Tree outside of the Texas Capital at night. Come along and enjoy!

I’m thrilled to share with you my 45th podcast episode. FSD beta in ATX for the lighted holidays.

Tesla’s Santa Mode Year Round?

I enjoy Santa mode in the car for the holidays.

A good friend kept Santa Mode on all year. He picked up his Tesla from the Service Center and it was activated for some reason. He drove his Tesla for over a year on Santa Mode and thought it was what all Tesla cars have on all the time.

Be sure to deactive the mode after the holidays!

You can always go back to regular mode by pressing the voice control of your steering wheel and saying, “Stop ho ho ho mode!”

You can also go into “Santa Mode” in the arcade and either start or stop it.

Have a great and lovely 2024.

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 43 featuring: Chuck Cook

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Austin, Texas

Welcome to my 43rd Podcast. Chuck Cook arrives in Austin and we greet him at the airport. We invite him to take a ride in the Model Y to experience FSD beta for the first time in Austin, Texas. One of the hallmark moments of this podcast is a four lane unprotected LEFT turn which is similar to the one that Chuck made famous in his indirect work with the Tesla AI team in Palo Alto. Enjoy the Video!

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 42 featuring: Cybertruck Delivery Event

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Austin, Texas

Join Gail Alfar as she takes you into the heart of the famous anticipated Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event on November 30, 2023. You’ll feel like you are there too. Gail gets close-ups of the Tesla robot that installs the Cybertruck’s tires and takes you to a deconstructed Cybertruck. Don’t miss the baby Cybertruck and the amazing Cybertent! 

Watch a robot install the glass roof of the vehicle and take in the exciting moments of the very first Cybertruck deliveries in history! Enjoy the video!

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 41 featuring: Visit to Boring Company HQ

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Bastrop, Texas

Let’s head out of the city and visit the Boring Company’s beautiful HQ outside of Austin. But this is not just any trip. We are going to experience Tesla FSD beta all the way to the HQ. The smooth hassle-free driving is the envy of all the other stress-filled drivers on the road who must commute on human pilot. I’ll explain how tunnels can help solve traffic in Texas, and we will tour the new Hyperloop Plaza in Bastrop and even buy a snack before we head back! Enjoy the podcast!

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Gigafactory Texas. Photo courtesy Tesla, Inc.

Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 40 featuring: Starship Launch

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Image Courtesy SpaceX. This is Starship Launch 2 as seen from Isla Blanca Park on 11/18/23.

(South Padre Island, Texas) FSD beta takes you to SpaceX’s Starship launch with zero disengagement. It truly like a sci-fi future! Enjoy the podcast!

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 39: Johnna Crider talks on having inspiration & hope.

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Johnna Crider

(Baton Rouge, Louisiana) Join Gail and Johnna Crider in a FSD beta drive through Baton Rouge and then straight down to the river for a short interview that may help you if you are in need of a way to cope with difficult times in life.

We have a great talk, analyze a rare gemstone, and experience more Tesla FSD beta at night!

Johnna wanted to reach out to people with what works for her in difficult times and I hope it will also help you!

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 37: Nominated for Academy Award.

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Tesla FSD Beta goes over Pennybaker Bridge in Austin.

(Austin, Texas) Join me for what has been called 2023 Best FSD Beta Video!

FSD Beta IS AWARD WINNING!

Jokes aside, one of my followers on X loved the music so much in the video that he thought it should win an Academy Award for Seductive Category! I agree, Tesla FSD Beta is smooth as butter and could probably seduce even the biggest skeptic to enjoy Tesla’s incredible autonomy!

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 38: FSD in the backwoods of Louisiana with Johnna Crider

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Gail Alfar and Johnna Crider in Baton Rogue.

{Baton Rogue, Louisiana) Join Gail Alfar and special guest Johnna Crider for a drive down the backroads of Louisiana. You are in for a treat, because a certain joy comes with visiting friends, laughing, and discussing the amazing work Tesla is doing. Johnna inspired the series of Podcasts known as Gail’s Tesla Podcast.

Back around January 2023, Johnna and I were talking, and I was constantly going on about Tesla autonomy, and spending hours each day thinking about the profound impact it has now and will have on our earth. This energy was, and still is, seemingly unstoppable. Learning to channel that energy into something like my writing as well as this weekly podcast, has been not only good for me, but good for the thousands of people that are watching the podcast on the X app. In fact, I chose to ONLY release the Podcast in X. It is my desire to see X succeed where Twittter did not. Enjoy the podcast!

Model Y is great for road trips such as this one took from Texas to Louisiana.

Tesla Model Y
Tesla Model Y. Image Courtesy Tesla, Inc.

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 36: Toll Road Edge Case

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Photo Courtesy Caleb on X at @iCaleb7

(Austin, Texas) For this episode, Model Y is running FSD beta version 11.4.7.3 and the roads are wet because a rainstorm occurred just prior to the recording of the Podcast.

Toll Roads

What stands out in this episode on 11.4.7.3 is how well the AI manages to get onto a Toll Road. The vehicle moves smoothly in the video through the Toll entrance, it slows but does not stop. Following this, there’s a slightly complicated fork where it must move to the left. Watch as it performs this swift move. Once on the Toll, the software has good control, while the driver does adjust the speed on the hand controller a few times to keep up with the fast speed of the other drivers.

Gail’s Tesla Podcast No. 36

Tesla Updates Autonomy Software

For the one disengagement, and this is applicable to FSD beta version 11.4.7.3 (Tesla AI is constantly prompting owners to update new versions of software), the driver approaches the Toll exit booth and the AI is quickly approaching the blocked Toll lane, so the driver simply disengages and takes over.

I will emphasize that if you see this now, you should expect for certain that Tesla will work to improve and update the autonomous safttware to where it will conquer Toll Roads in every way. All FSD beta testers sign to agree they will fastidiously supervise the car when FSD is engaged.

My thoughts

I enjoy the challenges. I laugh because if Tesla AI was perfect already, I could not be here, enjoying testing it in the very early years. Tesla Autonomy must become 100X safer and better than the best human driver. Safety is critical. Tesla AI is never judged using the same litmus test as human drivers are judged by. When AGI is achieved, it will be by Tesla. Having the best AI team in the world, means the standards are higher and so are the stakes. Tesla will succeed.

Elon Musk talks to the team in Berlin, encouraging them and congratulating them on the extraordinary success of Gigafactory Berlin.

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Gail’s Tesla Podcast Episode No. 35: Tesla Q3 earnings call – 2023

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FSD beta is real-world AI.

Tesla Q3 earnings call – 2023

(Austin, Texas) In this episode, we will listen to some short clips of Elon Musk talk about Cybertruck and FSD beta progress (from the Tesla Q3 earnings call 2023) towards becoming available globally. All the while we’ll be experiencing a perfect drive during rush hour around Austin.

Safety around cyclists with Tesla AI

One striking portion of this podcast occurs when a bicycle team of at least 6 people moves quickly toward a crosswalk at the very same moment the Tesla (on FSD BETA) is approaching the crosswalk.

Tesla AI safety around bicycles.

The driver (me) hears a warning beep inside the Tesla, but there is no need to disengage. The FSD AI has seamlessly moved in front of the crosswalk while all cyclists safely pass behind the car.

Gail Alfar, author. Exclusive to What’s Up Tesla – All Rights Reserved. My goal as an author and podcaster is to support Tesla (the most American vehicle manufacturer) and Elon Musk in both making life better on Earth for humans and becoming a space-fairing civilization.