On November 15, 2020 our club met at the Titusville shore, in a great spot facing the Cape Canaveral launch complex pad 39A to watch the launch of the NASA and SpaceX Crew-1 Mission, where a Falcon 9 rocket sent 4 astronauts to the International Space Station, as the first official commercial crewed SpaceX flight.
My name is Rafael, and besides being one of the founders and president of our club, I am also part of a small group of people in the nation that is collaborating with the Tesla engineering team to test the preliminary beta release of Full Self Driving. My car drove me about 98% of the near 200 miles trip from the city of Sunrise to Cape Canaveral for this trip and back home. At the beginning of the video below, I show our arrival at the Titusville superchargers.
During my collaboration with Tesla to test the Autosteer on City Streets features of the Autopilot suite (commonly known as Full Self Driving) I test the capabilities and report any issues I can identify to Tesla, and their Autopilot and Artificial Intelligence developers take note for fixing issues.
This is the video of our club’s excursion for that day.
Watching rocket launches is one of my favorites things to do here in Florida. It's a short trip (by Tesla driving standards) from our home town near Miami, of only about 2.5 hours. So I try to go to every rocket launch I possibly can. But now I have the chance to share that thrill with my friends from the Tesla community. This trip was particularly fun, because my car drove me on the Full Self Driving capabilities all the way from home to Cape Canaveral. I am helping Tesla beta test this suite of game-changing features, so I can't wait until everyone has access to it. That is why I am making sure that I test and provide feedback to the Tesla engineers, to help them identify any potential problems, and help them bring it to general availability. Going back to the original post comment, if you have a chance to view a rocket launch in person, do it. It's one of the most amazing things you will ever see.