Elon Musk just announced on Twitter that Tesla will hold “AI Day” on August 19. That’s all the info we have for now, so I wanted to pose to readers here: What do you think Tesla will cover on AI Day? What potential surprises are around the corner? Tesla AI … [continued]
For many Tesla followers, Battery Day was a mind-blowing event that was one of the highlights of the year, if not the decade. For others, it was not what they expected and was a letdown because no big new product was made immediately available, and no new vehicles were revealed — no electric airplane, no Model 2, no electric boat.
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.
The NTSB has open an investigation into the death of Jeremy Banner, whose Tesla Model 3 struck a tractor trailer crossing a Florida highway in March. Its findings may affect Elon Musk’s plan for Tesla robotaxis.
In this article, I will examine the claims that Tesla made at its Tesla Autonomy Day on April 22. Although I’m a small investor in Tesla and undoubtedly a fan of the company and its cars, I’ll try to be as objective as I can be and show where Tesla’s claims are proven or undisputed and where they are unproven and require a leap of faith. In order to have a robotaxi, Tesla has to have the following pieces of the puzzle:
I’m writing this as I watch the stream, and as usual, the start of the stream is late. From having covered a number of these events, that seems like a pretty standard Tesla thing. And since I’m watching on YouTube right now and the numbers have only gone up since the time the stream was supposed to have started until now, maybe they’re on to something.
For any skeptics doubting the revolutionary capabilities of Tesla’s new Full Self Driving (FSD) compute hardware, why not tune in to what autonomy hardware rival Nvidia have to say about it? Nvidia has said that Tesla’s new hardware has just “raised the bar for self-driving computers.”
Below the video, we’ll be liveblogging highlights from the event. Enjoy, and let us know anything that catches your eye!
