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Tesla Promises Investors 'One Million Robo-Taxis' by 2020
To kick things off, the company shared that it had built its very own computer for self-driving cars. The neural network chip was built from the ground up; the project started back in 2016. Each computer (which is stored behind the glove box) has redundancy so that if one chip fails, the second chip can take over.
This is the company's first time building its own silicon. CEO Elon Musk was quick to boast that Tesla " which has never designed a chip, designed the best chip in the world."
Musk reiterated what he's said before about the hardware available in Teslas. "All Tesla cars right now have everything necessary for self-driving available today. All you need to do is improve the software."
That hardware includes the company's reliance on cameras and radar. When the subject of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) came up, Musk said "LiDAR is a fool's errand. Anyone that's relying on LiDAR is doomed." He later added that "it's fricking stupid. It's expensive and unnecessary."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/22/tesla-elon-musk-self-driving-robo-taxi/
Tesla Vaunts Creation of 'The Best Chip in the World' for Self-Driving
At its "Autonomy Day" today, Tesla detailed the new custom chip that will be running the self-driving software in its vehicles. Elon Musk rather peremptorily called it "the best chip in the world... objectively." That might be a stretch, but it certainly should get the job done.
Called for now the "full self-driving computer," or FSD Computer, it is a high-performance, special-purpose chip built (by Samsung, in Texas) solely with autonomy and safety in mind. Whether and how it actually outperforms its competitors is not a simple question and we will have to wait for more data and closer analysis to say more.
Robotaxis also at TechCrunch.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 23 2019, @02:48PM
where i live we have scary roads.
the are ALIVE! on a 800 km strech you will encounter improvment, expansion etc work at least 5 times.
every trip is different. mostly it's getting better. in some rural areas alot of sugarcane is planted, harvested and sloppily
transported on the road. squishing sugarcane on asphalt doesn't seem to help asphalt live to a ripe old age, e.g. that stretch
gets upgraded/improved alot. mission: to make potholes extinct.
other areas are also pothole magnets, because they have a few houses in the middle of nowhere on both sides and the people
living there feel lonely and need some security at night, thus they feed dogs ... until they don't and the hungry dog starts roaming for antacid tablets, then
gets spilled with a tummy of hungry acid over the road ... not-vomited vomit doesn't mix well with asphalt.
note to self: don't squish a hungry dogonto the road. result will be instant pothole.
tho i am not sure if it's the acid or just that bones are harder then asphalt and if you keep rolling over them, they eventually generate a pothole?
anyways ... i hope the A.I. is also trained on section of so-called roads (in the making and upgrading etc).
protip: if it takes off, EVERYBODY will want it and the demand for A.I. assisting ROADPAINT will skyrocket ... abit.
in other news ... the tesla factory built itself ... on mars :)