Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 03:54:21 +0000
Tesla held its annual meeting of stockholders at its Austin, Texas factory on Thursday. The meeting invited shareholders to join in person, in addition to over 300,000 viewers who watched the event virtually. The meeting addressed 13 proposals, five of which were introduced by the board of directors — and one of which included Tesla’s recent plans […]
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 17:23:34 +0000
Quite surprisingly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently started collecting somewhat broad data on automobile accidents involving SAE Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) — driver-assist technology like cruise control, lane keeping, and automatic lane changing. The first report on the collected data was published last month. Immediately, a rather shocking figure […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2022 05:46:06 +0000
I thought I had written my last article on FSD Beta until I got access again. However, with almost 300 comments on my last article, I need to supply some context and rebut some of the comments. Please see my revised article below. Background: After 206 days of my wife and I obsessively using Tesla […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:50:24 +0000
After 206 days of my wife and I obsessively using FSD Beta, we have lost access to the software! I paid $6,000 extra for Full Self Driving when I bought my car in October 2019. (Note: The cost for Full Self Driving with new Tesla purchases has been $12,000 for some time now, twice what […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:10:10 +0000
Tesla’s Autopilot team recently visited New Orleans for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, shared a photo of Tesla’s boot with an invitation for those in the area to stop by, talk with the engineers, and see the Cybertruck. The Tesla Autopilot team is at […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 03:53:38 +0000
YouTuber Frenchie recently took his Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta 10.12.2 on a drive for an hour, and there were zero interventions or disengagements. Tesla’s FSD keeps getting better and better, according to this bet tester. Although, it should be noted that it is still in beta. This means that owners still need to be […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 03:45:56 +0000
Background: I have driven my 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range now for two years and 7 months. The odometer reads 70,469 miles. I’ve been driving it across the country on the Interstate highways from North Carolina to Southern California, on the 12-lane metropolitan I-15 freeways and intersections of Salt Lake City, as well as […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 01:57:18 +0000
Tesla’s Full-Self Driving is using generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) for vision, Elon Musk tweeted recently. He added that the GPTs are running natively on Tesla TRIP chips versus needing to round trip to iGPU. I think it’s important to take a quick deep dive into this, because this is kind of the heart and soul […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:51:08 +0000
Tesla has registered a new high-resolution radar unit with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and its Office of Engineering and Technology Authorization and Evaluation Divisions, Drive Tesla Canada has reported. Although the registration will allow Tesla to sell vehicles that have the units installed in the U.S., the documents don’t reveal how Tesla plans […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 03:30:10 +0000
Cars that need no human driver are coming next year, Elon Musk says — again.