Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 03:40:49 +0000
I was on a cleantech editors roundtable yesterday, and one of the three things I postulated would be a hot topic in the remainder of the year was self-driving vehicles. Less than a day later, news broke that Waymo and GM’s Cruise have nearly received approval in the state of California to operate robotaxis — […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:25:56 +0000
The Problem, Or The Excuse, Depending On Your Point Of View In a recent article, I covered yet another study that showed us the Level 2 attention problem. I know many Tesla owners want to deny this, but in terms of attention and feeling tired, it’s more difficult to monitor a Level 2 system than […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:21:14 +0000
Twitter and other social media where Tesla fans tend to hang out is abuzz with Tesla’s Safety Scores. The idea is that the scores (probably with some improvements) will be used to determine how risky a person’s driving is, and then be used to determine what rates a driver should be charged. While that’s not […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:40:41 +0000
Tesla was granted another patent yesterday. This time, it seems that Tesla has perfected the art of creating neural networks (NN) that understand “self-improvement.” The patent, titled, System and method for handling errors in a vehicle neural network processor, describes a process where neural networks can detect errors associated with the execution of said NN. […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:45:49 +0000
The Citroen Skate electric car platform is designed to accept a variety of body styles.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:30:46 +0000
My Experience Here In a previous article, I discussed the Level 2 attention problem. In my testing of various manufacturers’ Level 2 driver assist systems, I’ve noticed that with extended use it’s hard to not feel a little drowsy. When I disabled auto-steer and instead used adaptive cruise control (ACC), or traffic-aware cruise control (TACC) […]
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Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:13:29 +0000
Elon Musk was invited to speak at the 2021 World Internet Conference in Wuhzen, China. Elon was invited to share his thoughts on intelligent and connected vehicles. He spoke about autonomous driving using Tesla’s neural vision network, data safety, Tesla China’s data center, and Tesla’s investment in China. Note that Elon wasn’t able to join […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 05:12:41 +0000
After a long — often impatient — wait, Tesla owners across the United States have nearly gotten access to the company’s “FSD Beta” driver-assist software for city streets. As one of those owners, I’m going to document below what exactly we got in the past 24 hours. First of all, note that you had to […]
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Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:54:33 +0000
Recent developments and some tweets I’ve been seeing have me concerned about not only the future of automotive privacy, but our ability to have a little harmless fun in them without paying an unaffordable rate. Let’s start this discussion with posts about keeping one’s driving “safe” for seven days to get FSD Beta access: I’m […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:45:03 +0000
There’s a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which looked at Tesla owners using Autopilot and how they interact with it. The study, “A model for naturalistic glance behavior around Tesla Autopilot disengagement,” has already been the source of many headlines claiming that it found that all Tesla drivers become inattentive when […]
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