Tesla Autopilot Mystery Solved — HW3 Full Potential Soon To Be Unlocked

Credit to Author: Chanan Bos| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:12:38 +0000

In June 2019 after Tesla’s Autonomy Investor Day, we did a deep dive into Tesla’s HW3 chip that explored the various capabilities and potential of the HW3 processor system on a chip (SoC). I may have geeked out a little and made that a bit too technical, so I will try not to repeat that mistake in this article. Long story short, HW3 is a total beast. It is very different from the NVIDIA chip Tesla was using in the previous generation

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Xpeng In-House Autonomous Vehicle Technology Keeps Prices Down

Credit to Author: Nicolas Zart| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 03:28:23 +0000

I recently met with Dr. Xinzhou Wu, Vice President of Autonomous Driving at Xpeng Motors, to learn more about the company’s autonomous vehicle (AV) bottom-up approach, part of its long-term strategic plan. Dr. Wu is in charge of overall strategy and technical planning of the business and team management for Xpeng’s global autonomous driving R&D center in Silicon Valley, California

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Who Will Benefit In The Robotaxi Revolution?

Credit to Author: Matt Pressman| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 01:00:49 +0000

As self-driving cars move closer and closer to reality, one particular market stands to benefit — autonomous taxis (aka robotaxis). Tasha Keeny from Ark Invest recently evaluated the players who’d likely benefit from this massive market opportunity. Keeney writes, “Autonomous vehicles will transform personal mobility … reap[ing] the benefits of a new market which promises to ramp from essentially $0 now to $10 trillion in global gross annual revenues by 2030.”

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Tesla Is Now Installing Full Self Driving Hardware 3 Upgrade In Some Cars

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:39:26 +0000

The first confirmed upgrade to Tesla’s new Full Self Driving hardware version 3 took place today after a customer took his 2018 Tesla Model S P100DL into the Santa Barbara service center to get a new HEPA filter. After the service, Twitterer and longtime Tesla supporter Sofiaan Fraval noticed that a line on his service documents indicated that the new hardware had been installed at the appointment as well (h/t to Vincent for spotting this one)

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Tesla Installs First Customer Upgrade To Full Self Driving Hardware 3

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 22:39:26 +0000

The first confirmed upgrade to Tesla’s new Full Self Driving hardware version 3 took place today after a customer took his 2018 Tesla Model S P100DL into the Santa Barbara service center to get a new HEPA filter. After the service, Twitterer and longtime Tesla supporter Sofiaan Fraval noticed that a line on his service documents indicated that the new hardware had been installed at the appointment as well (h/t to Vincent for spotting this one)

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