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, emily . Hope you enjoy .

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This is my cloth on open forum in the

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villages . Today's show is going to be a little

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bit different . Today we are going to be going

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out to the cars and coffee

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behind fidelity investments

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in the Lake Sumter area . I'm

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going to be talking to first a couple

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of Porsche people about the cars

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they brought . Then I'm going to have an interesting conversation

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with a couple of members of

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the Tesla Club about the Tesla

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cars that they brought I think it was a Model

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Y and the SUV . Then

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we're actually going to be able to hear that Tesla

1:37

play happy birthday , as all the doors

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and go up and down and the windshield

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wipers and lights flash . It's a nice little

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trick . We talk about some of

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the autonomous driving features that

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are now available on Tesla and are

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going to be coming on the Mercedes-Benz

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S-Class for the 2024

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Model year . As I was recording this

1:58

event outdoors with a portable

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digital recorder , the sound quality

2:03

is substantially below the sound

2:05

quality which we get here in the studio

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. However , I thought the information was quite

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valuable and therefore I'm including

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it in the show . This is my cloth

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on open forum in the villages . I'm talking with

2:16

Timber Kirby .

2:17

Timber , Tell our

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listeners about your boy I'd

2:21

say a 2021 base

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boxer that I have changed a little

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bit . I just upgraded to 20-inch wheels . I've

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put 6,000 miles on it last

2:30

summer , doing 16 states and six

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driving days . The car

2:34

is smarter than the driver , especially

2:37

when you get around the bendy bits .

2:39

What is the smarter than the driver ?

2:40

It knows where to go . It just glued

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to the road . Wherever you steer it , it's going . It's

2:44

amazing . So it has self-driving

2:46

features . No , it doesn't . Self-driving

2:49

is actually the pilot taste , but it

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knows how to get away from curbs and everything else

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will all be pretty . It's got about 44 miles to

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a gallon on the road . Probably get around

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24 round town . Is that

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a six cylinder or a four ? It's

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a blown four twin turbos . It only

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has 300 horsepower , but I'm probably going to upgrade

3:05

to the sole pipes and I can get another

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four to power out of that , just for a little deeper

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sound . Those who don't know what a sole

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pipe is it's an exhaust made

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for all the sports cars . It's one of the big manufacturers

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that are very reliable .

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Great Scott , any others you want to tell our listeners about

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your car ?

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No , just come to our last Saturdays

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and come meet everybody . It's a great

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group of people here .

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Yeah , we're talking about the cars and coffee yes

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, last Saturday of the month and

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the parking lot that's directly behind the

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fidelity investments .

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I think we have enough groups . Mercedes

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has a huge group , right . Right , we

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have a BMW Corvette Group . I know .

3:41

Yes .

3:41

Porsche Group . Right , we

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have a very active . The Porsche Group is growing by leaps and bounds

3:46

this year compared to last year . Oh , yeah , yeah .

3:49

How many members of the Porsche Group ?

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up to . We had 80 cars go last

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Saturday for lunch over in Cistl

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.

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River . Yeah , where did you have lunch that had ? It can accommodate

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80 people .

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Caesars car Cedar Seafood

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right there on 19 in

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Cistl River . We've been to Plantation . We've

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been to McEnoby . Yeah , we've

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been to the old train station

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up in . Yeah , in McEnoby

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. We've been to Polacka . I'm not from

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around here , so I'm guessing at these names

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. Pardon , to pronounce them . I've been to probably some

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other place I can't pronounce .

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Okay , thanks , this is Mike

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Roth with Dr Craig Curtis for today's

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Alzheimer's tip . Dr Curtis , is

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there any type of treatment today

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for patients with Alzheimer's

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which would reverse the prognosis

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, the progression of the ?

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disease . Mike , unfortunately we

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do not have any medication today

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that can reverse the progress of

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Alzheimer's disease . What we are showing

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is that the newer medications can

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help slow the progression

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by approximately 30%

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, but we do not currently have

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any way of halting the progression

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of Alzheimer's disease , nor reversing

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Alzheimer's disease . That's why we're still

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doing research .

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Mm-hmm , thank you , you're welcome . With

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over 20 years of experience studying brain health , Dr . Curtis' goal

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is to educate the village's community on how to live

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a longer , healthier life . To learn more , visit

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his website craigcurtismd . com

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or call 352-500-5252

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to attend a free seminar .

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Pretty nice . Yeah , my neighbors are crazy about and

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I like I play . The boom box works , but

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only mark . I wish they would have left

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it and with the different horns

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it plays . Yeah , I need that . I

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need that safety department . I need that antique

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horn for to get the walkers out

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of the way . Yeah , because the car is so quiet

5:34

. You , you come up behind people and

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they don't hear you coming by the way , I'm talking

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to your name .

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I'm Pat Pat Nick Willen and we're

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talking about open forum in the Villages podcast

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.

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Okay , I kind of guessed that thing , that

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or your fancy cell phone .

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No , it's not a cell phone . You'll

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be able to listen to it there about a month .

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Oh , okay .

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So so , package you could you play that run

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your plate again .

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Yeah , yeah , my daughter's on .

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You're talking about the radio here in the village

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. No , no , no , no . This is on the internet

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. This is on the internet . It's on the internet , okay

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. Okay , yeah , watch your

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head . I gotta close everything up .

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Start fresh . Yeah , this will make a biker fall .

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Oh , this is a six-meter

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, mine's a five . Oh yeah , we have two

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seats . Oh way , in the back there and going

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yeah yours doesn't have to go wings . No

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, mines , and mine is an SUV actually

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. It's a little higher off the ground than

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his and it's you could sleep in

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the back of it , so big and it's got the most

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storage of any other Tesla's right

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. We'll have to maybe go . This has auto

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close to walk away that

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door . On its own

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but just give it a push , would you ? Oh

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, it even need to get you . It was

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ready to go . Yeah , it opens

6:45

all right when you walk up to it . There

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you go , oh . Oh

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.

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Go wing doors open and close the front doors

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open .

7:36

Oh yeah , the mirrors actually move

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in some way .

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So what ? That's the the doors from hitting

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a car that's adjacent to it in a tight parking

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lot . It knows , it knows how it knows

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how close it is the wing doors .

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They'll either they'll either come out and

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up or they'll go up and uh

7:52

, depending on what's called . Yeah , this

7:54

is a television car and this one has cell

7:56

full self-driving . I was explaining

7:58

, I came here from Belvedere and didn't didn't

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have to take off the self-driving till I got

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to the Intersection you mean

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it's ?

8:05

it's a level two self-driving .

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I sure what level it is , but it's uh

8:09

, it's the highest . I have the beta , the

8:11

latest beta version of the

8:14

self-driving ?

8:14

Yeah , I don't . I don't know what that means

8:16

.

8:17

Well , for me it's a version number . It'll

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pretty well take you to the place

8:21

you want to go in a city , no problem

8:23

Well uh , there are only two places in

8:25

the country that self-driving approved

8:28

legally on the road .

8:29

San Francisco , san Francisco , no , actually

8:31

it's California . And in the bottom , okay

8:34

, yeah , so if you , if you turn your car on

8:36

full self-driving mode here .

8:38

Yeah , you still have to keep your hand . You have to

8:40

keep your hands on the wheel . Yeah , you

8:42

have to keep your hand on the wheel or within

8:44

so many seconds in fact self-driving

8:46

those states where it's so called legal

8:48

.

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You can't go more than 40 miles an hour , yeah this

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is a different thing .

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Uh , we can go up to 85 . You've got to

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have your hand on the steering wheel , but with the

8:56

latest update , because people were cheating

8:58

, they'd hang something on the steering wheel . Yeah

9:00

, they monitor it with the internal cams

9:02

and that can't do your eyes . So if you're

9:04

, yeah , if you're screwing around , if your eyes

9:06

are closed and you're in trouble , yeah , it's

9:08

not good and I , when I first

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got it , I took my cell phone and I

9:12

picked it up and it just

9:15

went bananas , beeping

9:17

red lights flashing it's . You

9:19

do that four more times and we shut you

9:21

off . So they're very close .

9:22

The Mercedes has self-driving feature . You

9:25

know , at level two .

9:26

Yeah , enhanced cruise control , I think .

9:29

Well , no enhanced cruise control , but

9:32

it's also self-driving . It'll keep you within

9:34

the lane lines . Yeah okay , problem

9:36

is when the lane lines fail

9:39

. Car may try to drive off

9:41

the road .

9:41

Yeah , we had when I first took delivery . I've

9:44

had it 18 . I first took delivery that

9:46

was pretty much what they considered , that full . But

9:48

every four to six weeks I get

9:50

a new update and now it'll

9:53

go down . I remember the name of that

9:55

road , but it moved down a road with

9:57

no lane marking and Normally

10:00

what it does , it stays in the center of

10:02

the lane until there's oncoming traffic

10:04

.

10:04

It pulls over until they pass

10:06

what happens on a road like 44 , where

10:08

the right lane markings Disappear

10:11

in many places ?

10:12

Yeah , it's 44 , the one that goes south off . We're

10:14

only makers . It goes west really

10:16

oh , this is a north

10:18

. Oh I don't , I don't um , there's one

10:21

so rolling acres doesn't have

10:23

a right lane , oh

10:25

. I'm sorry , not rolling . Here's a rainy trail

10:27

. Rainy trail is fine , but as

10:29

soon as I turn , left on 301

10:31

no , before 301

10:33

. It's a dirt , it's . It's not a dirt road , but it's

10:35

an . I know what you're talking about . I've been there . Okay

10:38

, that it will handle that . Yeah

10:41

, there's no lane markings at all and

10:43

it will go down the center until someone's

10:45

coming . It'll move over , they pass

10:47

. So , yeah , it can do that .

10:49

These self-driving features are an area of development

10:51

for the next model year on my Mercedes

10:54

s-class they're gonna have they

10:56

have level three , okay , which fully autonomous

10:58

self-driving below 40

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miles an hour .

11:02

Oh , I see I can get like , as the mining can go up to

11:04

the before I forget . I want to tell you a story

11:06

.

11:06

Go ahead .

11:07

This happened at one of the Tesla . Well

11:09

, one of the car shows that brown wasn't about . I

11:11

was less than a year ago , it doesn't matter less . Anyway

11:13

, I was talking to father , son and

11:16

grandson and I said when your grandson

11:18

is our age , he's gonna be down here

11:20

. He's gonna tell his grandchildren . When

11:22

I was your age , my father's car had a steering

11:24

wheel and this kid pipes up

11:26

. Yeah , and it was on the ground . The

11:29

car was on the ground . He's

11:32

anticipating hoverboard

11:34

hover cars .

11:35

That's a whole different animal

11:37

. Well you don't

11:40

have frictional brakes .

11:43

I don't use a brake at all here .

11:44

No , no we don't use the brake

11:49

. It's in one pedal mode In Mercedes

11:51

that's called high recuperation and brake pedals

11:55

are still available , right , but for

11:58

most stops they're not necessary . Exactly , that

12:00

motor holds , the motor holds it . It will

12:02

actually hold the car at a stop . It's on a creep

12:04

mode , so that's pretty good .

12:06

Yeah , that's amazing . I

12:09

talked to a gentleman over at the fitness

12:11

center . I saw him there about two months ago . I

12:13

had the car hit a motor site . He said sorry

12:15

to ask me questions , well , I take delivery of mine

12:18

tomorrow . He literally was one . So now I see

12:20

him two months later in the fitness . I asked

12:22

him how I would like to get the Model S

12:24

. He said well , we drove

12:26

it on , never Go Back

12:28

to another car . And

12:30

that's pretty much what I'm feeling about this

12:33

one that the president of

12:35

the Felsen Club , the past president he

12:37

used to drive his on the racetrack in Siebert . Oh

12:39

yeah , Because

12:42

he was saying how many tires he had to re-brew

12:44

?

12:44

That's an interesting question . So you take your Tesla

12:46

out to the racetrack and put it on the

12:49

racetrack . You're going to burn the battery down

12:51

a lot faster . How would you

12:53

recharge ?

12:54

Oh , that's right , you have about three , about three runs

12:56

, and your battery close to dead . But , he was

12:58

talking about what it does higher because he's well

13:00

. I saw him in a new set of tires .

13:02

Well tires and other story all

13:04

together now .

13:05

You never have to worry about getting

13:07

stuck . Tesla . I just took a trip up

13:09

to Kentucky . It'll plan it all

13:11

out for a few . Let it do the planning . Yep

13:14

, it'll take care of it all , and how low

13:16

do you let the battery go ? 20%

13:19

. If you let it decide , it usually takes

13:21

between 20 and 80 , normally 20

13:23

and 80% . You know they think that's

13:25

the official way to travel . But I

13:27

let it go down purposely

13:30

because I plan my own stops . I do

13:32

it doing that . And I was

13:34

headed to Alabama and then up to Kentucky

13:36

and it started warning me and said

13:38

wait , there's a , tell

13:40

me where there was a supercharger . And

13:43

I just kept driving because I was going to

13:45

. I use a home charger , I carry a mobile charger

13:48

in my frunk in the front here .

13:50

And I was going to 110 volt charger

13:52

.

13:53

Yeah , it's 110 or 230 . I

13:55

can do either one , 240 . Rather it's

13:58

120 and 240

14:01

. So anyway , it says you're about to pass the

14:03

point of no return if you don't turn on

14:05

the such and such . So it's looking out for you

14:07

. But I knew no problem . I ran

14:09

it down to 10% but I plugged

14:11

it into their home because

14:13

I was going to stay there two days and that

14:16

works . Let it charge back up . Yeah , I call

14:18

that the brother in law . Yeah , it's

14:21

perfect . I went out and bought a hundred

14:23

foot heavy , really the heaviest

14:25

construct cord extension cord I could

14:27

get , and when I travel I throw that in

14:29

. Yeah , there you go .

14:30

See well , it's not a heavy duty cord .

14:33

No , mine's , mine's super heavy yeah

14:35

. But still here . This

14:37

will take 30 amps at any RV

14:39

center here . Yeah , go

14:41

ahead . This right here is

14:43

about as heavy as you can buy . For a cord , this should

14:45

be 12 , 3 .

14:47

That's probably only a fifth game .

14:49

That's a 15 amp yeah it's got a 15 amp

14:51

receptacle , but it's a . It's actually

14:53

a 20 amp . Well , yeah , capability

14:55

, but yeah , maybe the connectors would

14:57

get hot . But you can limit how

15:00

much current it takes by this or

15:02

by the car . So if I'm plugged

15:04

up with somebody's home , I'll plug into 15

15:07

and make a charge at 12 amp , which is

15:09

, with that , 80% of what you're allowed

15:11

to go in a receptacle . And if they've got other

15:13

things on the circuit that they're using , I

15:15

can kick it down to however low I want

15:18

. Here everybody's got a golf cart

15:20

outlet right in their garage

15:22

, which is what up with . Here's the other thing .

15:24

Not everyone has a golf cart outlet . We have

15:26

an electric

15:30

golf cart and we paid $150

15:33

to have a separate 15 amp circuit

15:35

brought to where the electric cable

15:37

is going to be shot .

15:38

No , okay , we got , we got . I got the

15:40

wife the atomic four door

15:42

atomic for her birthday two , three

15:45

years ago . Yeah , that's an amazing if you

15:47

ever look at him . Yeah , I mean , I

15:49

wanted it for the crash , I think remember our

15:51

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