Are Waymo’s Accomplishments & Methods Being Overlooked?

Credit 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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Tesla Robotaxis Coming to Austin in June — Probably. Maybe.

Credit 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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Counterargument to Tesla Cars with Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) Appreciating in Value Dramatically

Credit 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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Honest Thinking: Why Did Elon Musk Say in 2017 a Self-Driving Tesla Would Go from LA to NYC in 2017?

Credit 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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Tesla Vehicles Drive Themselves Unsupervised From Factory To Semi Truck Loading

Credit 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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Li Auto CEO Thinks Autonomous Cars Need Lidar in China

Credit 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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