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posted by martyb on Friday July 10 2020, @07:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the blizzards-and-downpours-and-lightning-oh-my! dept.

Tesla 'very close' to full self-driving, Musk says:

Tesla will be able to make its vehicles completely autonomous by the end of this year, founder Elon Musk has said.

It was already "very close" to achieving the basic requirements of this "level-five" autonomy, which requires no driver input, he said.

Tesla's current, level-two Autopilot requires the driver to remain alert and ready to act, with hands on the wheel.

But a future software update could activate level-five autonomy in the cars - with no new hardware, he said.

Regulatory hurdles could block implementation even if the remaining technical hurdles are overcome.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by TheReaperD on Friday July 10 2020, @11:11AM (7 children)

    by TheReaperD (5556) on Friday July 10 2020, @11:11AM (#1019018)

    Even worse, the streets of New Delhi, India. Good freakin' luck getting any sort of auto pilot to work there.

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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday July 10 2020, @01:19PM (2 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday July 10 2020, @01:19PM (#1019045)

    Yeah, but manual pilot doesn't work there either.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Friday July 10 2020, @02:43PM (2 children)

    by RS3 (6367) on Friday July 10 2020, @02:43PM (#1019077)

    It would work if most cars had autopilot, especially if they're all inter-networked and coordinate movement. The world already has huge swarms of "drone" copters flying in formation, each having to compensate for varying winds, including those from other drones.

    • (Score: 2) by TheReaperD on Friday July 10 2020, @11:45PM (1 child)

      by TheReaperD (5556) on Friday July 10 2020, @11:45PM (#1019274)

      To do this, you have to replace every vehicle, not just cars as they have a lot of bikes, rickshaws, and other vehicles that people in the US may consider odd. Who's going to pay for all of that? You can't expect someone with a salary equivalent to a few dollars a day (migrant workers get shafted) to buy a car that costs $20,000-$30,000 US to manufacture before profits. And unless they're all changed out, you're going to have the problem as New Delhi's infrastructure has not kept up with its population boom.

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      • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:20AM

        by RS3 (6367) on Saturday July 11 2020, @01:20AM (#1019311)

        No need to challenge me- I agree with you. My lack of including all of that does not mean I didn't think it- I just didn't write a novel explaining everything, including a timeline. I was just briefly posing what the future scenario could possibly be like. It would take a long time to adopt / integrate on a wide scale, and nobody said it had to be done, or done everywhere.

        Frankly, if you think about it, if enough cars were fully autopilot, there'd be much less abrupt motion changes, and bikes, rickshaws, etc., would have an easier time.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday July 10 2020, @02:57PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday July 10 2020, @02:57PM (#1019090) Journal

    Good freakin' luck getting any sort of auto pilot to work there.

    It depends upon the definition of "work".

    It may "work" just as amazingly well as outsourced software development "works".

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