As part of a general shift to the automotive industry, the Japanese firm Panasonic Corporation is aiming to extend its partnership with Tesla to include the production of self-driving vehicle components, according to the company’s CEO.
Elon Musk says one day the self-driving car will be as common and as non-controversial as the self service elevator. People don’t hyperventilate about an elevator that goes up and down automatically and (usually) stops precisely at the proper floor. Why should a self-driving car be any different? Is the age of the automobile as appliance upon us?
Tesla has begun rolling out the new “Enhanced Autopilot” to all Hardware 2.0 equipped vehicles, according to a new tweet from Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk.
This week, NHTSA closed its investigation into the crash that killed Joshua Brown, saying its staff “did not identify any defects.” In response, the company issued a brief statement. “At Tesla, the safety of our customers comes first, and we appreciate the thoroughness of NHTSA’s report and its conclusion.”
Tesla has poached an 11-year veteran of Apple, Chris Lattner, and installed him as the new vice president of Autopilot software, according to a post last night on Tesla’s blog. Lattner is, notably, the mind behind Apple’s “newest” programming language, Swift.
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk had previously stated that an update allowing for Autopilot use in the new self-driving Hardware 2.0 vehicles (all Teslas produced since late October) would go out before the end of December. This goal seems to have been met … in a way. Tesla reportedly uploaded the new software to the first 1,000 vehicles last night. Assuming an earlier tweet from the Tesla CEO held true, that is. This is the tweet that I’m talking about:
I’m not going to attempt to identify which CleanTechnica stories of 2016 were my favorites, but below is a top 50 list of our 50 most popular articles in 2016 based purely on pageviews. After that, there’s a top 30 list for December (also purely based on pageviews).
Tesla has reportedly now gathered more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles, data that’s been obtained whether Autopilot was being actively used or not. What’s the value of all of this data? Does it give the company a significant advantage in the self-driving sector over its potential competitors?
This dashcam video shows how the latest version of Tesla Autopilot can navigate on a snow covered two lane road with no visible lane markings and no car ahead to follow.
In another example of why some industry spectators such as myself are as pro-self-driving-tech as we are, a new dashcam video has emerged showing Tesla’s Autopilot system saving a “driver” from a collision two vehicles ahead. The collisions wasn’t obvious to the human driver based on sight alone. This ability to detect … [continued]
