One argument Elon Musk and Tesla fans have made for ages — for about a decade — is that the extra costs of sensors like lidar and radar for self-driving vehicles are not worth it, are illogical, and will be the death of a company like Waymo. Just use cameras … [continued]
I wrote an article the other day titled “Tesla Proved Many People Wrong For Years — Is This Time The Same, Or Different?” The core points of the article were these: Many people said Tesla couldn’t do what it ended up doing at many stages of the company’s development. I … [continued]
Let me start with some personal history and perspective. I believed in the Tesla story and mission, and its targets, starting in 2012. When people were skeptical about the Tesla Model S and Supercharging, I thought they were great and was bullish on Tesla’s future. When people said the Model … [continued]
I’ve seen this claim countless times, and I understand where it’s coming from, but I don’t believe it. I normally brush past it, but given that a top computer scientist known as the “Godfather of AI” just said it, and also given the enormous controversy and confusion around Elon Musk … [continued]
Tesla took to Twitter (er, X … ruining my alliteration) this week to share with followers what its roadmap is for the coming months. Almost all of this relates to Full Self Driving (FSD). You can see the full update in the screenshot below, but I’ll also put it into … [continued]
During the Q&A session of the 2024 Tesla annual shareholder meeting, in response to one of the questions about Full Self Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk explained something about Tesla’s FSD development that completely affirms a suspicion I had two years ago. Also, this is one of the key challenges … [continued]
Covering the 2024 Tesla shareholder annual meeting, I’ve discussed two extremes that could be the future of Tesla depending on how the company’s current “big bet” turns out, and I’ve discussed 10 highlights from the main presentation. However, the first page of the slidedeck after the cover was an interesting … [continued]
After a long wait of weeks and months, Tesla (TSLA) has finally started pushing the Full Self-Driving Beta V12 update to non-employee users. The wider public release began February 19 with FSD Beta version 12.2.1 (2023.44.30.20).
We get a lot of great comments here on CleanTechnica. From time to time I think, “that’s a great full article!” I’m planning to start publishing these when I spot them. To kick this off, below was most of a comment from a reader in a comment thread about Tesla FSD in January. Enjoy! Or, if you don’t, feel free to carry on the conversation down in the comments!
Tesla Dojo was going to change the world. It was Tesla’s secret sauce to help solve Full Self Driving, and general AI. Then we stopped hearing about it. It sort of just faded into the background. I figured, well, there’s so much to talk about and a gigantic computer just … [continued]
