Highlights from last night’s episode have been released on the official SNL channel on YouTube where you can see the 49-year-old entrepreneur being a part-time comedian. It might come as a surprise to some, but Elon Musk is listed as a fully fledged actor on IMBD after appearing in an episode of The Big Bang Theory and in the spin-off series Young Sheldon.

He was also included in the casts for Iron Man 2, Machete Kills, and Why Him? while IMDB says he was also the executive producer of five titles, with a sixth one involving Tom Cruise and SpaceX in the works. Meanwhile, you can see the Pretoria-born business magnate making jokes during SNL. Some members of the usual cast have expressed their skepticism regarding Musk’s appearance in the show, but as you can see, it very much happened.

Elon Musk is not the first Saturday Night Live host to cause a stir as the same thing happened back in 2015 when SNL announced none other than Donald Trump would go on to make an appearance. Going back in time, Andrew Dice Clay hosted SNL in 1990 even though his jokes were quite vulgar, to say the least.

It remains to be seen what people will think of Elon Musk’s performance during SNL, but there is no denying the man who crowned himself as Tesla’s official “Technoking” knows how to create hype. His appearance during Saturday Night Live is just the latest publicity stunt in a long string of marketing moves he has taken over the years, some good and some not so much.

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With the purchase of a Tesla between now and the end of 2020, every new owner will get three months of full self-driving for free. It’s important to mention this is more of a promise of a future freebie rather than a feature that customers will be getting right away since FSD is still in the beta phase. The full self-driving system is expected to roll out via an over-the-air update sometime next year, so owners will have to patiently wait.

All Tesla cars delivered in the final three days of the year will get three months of the Full Self-Driving option for free. Delivery & docs must be fully complete by midnight Dec 31st.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 29, 2020

To take advantage of the three-month FSD offer at no cost, Musk says the car must be delivered by midnight December 31, 2020 and all the documents have to be finalized by then. On the road to fully autonomous driving capabilities, Tesla’s self-driving tech has seen several price hikes in recent times and it’s now a $10,000 option.

At some point after FSD will become available for all Tesla owners, the company says it will also offer the software upgrade as a subscription. However, it’s not known at this point how much it’s going to cost per month. In a tweet earlier this month, Musk promised to release details about the FSD subscription at the beginning of 2021.

Absolutely. We will release FSD subscription early next year.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2020

Some would argue the term “Full Self-Driving” used by Tesla is misleading considering the SAE International standards for autonomy consider only the Level 4 and Level 5 to be truly self-driving, without requiring any human intervention. FSD will only work in certain situations, but Elon Musk has promised it will eventually be upgraded to reach 100-percent autonomy.

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The 49-year-old businessman sent an e-mail to Tesla employees, encouraging them to make one final effort this year to achieve the ambitious objective. Electrek managed to get a hold of that alleged e-mail, which quotes Elon Musk saying:

“Please go all out to make it happen. This is a great milestone to rally the company around achieving. All the critics who, as recently as two years ago said that we’d never make it, also called our target of half a million in 2020 ‘impossible.’ The heck with them, we are doing it!”

It’s crunch time for Tesla as the end of the year is right around the corner and hitting 500,000 cars would prove naysayers wrong. Manufacturing the cars necessary to hit that mark only solves half the problem as they also must be shipped to their owners as soon as possible. For this reason, the company’s CEO is asking employees working at the end of the assembly line to make sure everything is in order since there’s no time to fix any issues that might be detected during the pre-delivery inspection.

It’s worth pointing out the cars currently being made are only the Model 3 and Model Y as the bigger and more expensive Model S and Model X are on a hiatus. Production of the two high-end vehicles was paused on December 24 and won’t be resumed until January 11. It is believed the temporary shutdown has to do with an impending styling update for the duo, but that remains to be seen. In the meantime, Tesla is busy churning out the cheaper EVs.

Source: Electrek

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