Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:07:19 +0000
Lidar can see though smoke, fog, and rain that cameras cannot. These experiments show why that is important.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:53:24 +0000
From the immortal humorous lyrics of Shania Twain, my evaluation of FSD Supervised V12.6.3 (2024.45.32.15): That Don’t Impress Me Much! I’ve been driving with and obsessively using Tesla’s artificial intelligence software in my Model 3 now for over 5 years and nearly 150,000 miles, both on Interstate highways and city … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Letters to the Editor| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 04:46:53 +0000
A couple of weeks ago, Michael Barnard published a great article on Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving, what he thought about it a decade ago, what’s happened since then, and whether Tesla can ever achieve robotaxi-level self-driving. There were a lot of great comments under the article. A few articles … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:21:19 +0000
During the Tesla conference call for shareholders this week, where Tesla reportedly some not entirely positive financial results (and bad financial trends), there had to be a big announcement, right? Aside from Elon Musk thinking out loud that Tesla might be worth more than the next 5 most valuable companies … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:28:12 +0000
Yesterday, I wrote about Elon Musk’s long history predicting robotaxi-capable Tesla Autopilot/Full Self Driving. We then got another update from Tesla, stating: “2025 will be a seminal year in Tesla’s history as FSD (Supervised) continues to rapidly improve with the aim of ultimately exceeding human levels of safety. This will … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:23:45 +0000
One of the more wild claims Elon Musk has made — regarding Tesla, that is — was back in 2016 when he said a self-driving Tesla would be able to go from Los Angeles to New York City “in ~2 years” (in early 2018). A year and a few months … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:47:53 +0000
Tesla has tweeted out that its vehicles are now driving themselves — using Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) — from the factory where they are produced in California to the loading dock lanes where they will get put onto semi trucks and taken away. You can watch videos of that here: … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:47:49 +0000
It’s a longstanding and vigorous debate — will robotaxis need lidar, or are cameras alone adequate? Of course, we have several companies now operating robotaxis in China, the US, and elsewhere. Those all use lidar. However, Elon Musk has said for about a decade that robotaxis shouldn’t need lidar, and … [continued]
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