Elon Musk and Tesla want to take their cars to Level 4 or 5 autonomy. This will require some breakthroughs. It goes without saying that Google has made astonishing progress with its Google Car, but that vehicle isn’t at all ready to be manufactured in significant numbers. It’s more of an adorable platform to provide a proof-of-concept.
Musk is betting that software will enable full autonomy within 5 years.
Every Autopilot-enabled Tesla is already feeding data back to the mother ship, providing a basis for tweaking the technology for future updates. Tesla’s vehicles are quite literally learning the roads that they drive on and are enriching the company’s overall mapping efforts. This is something of a secret weapon for Tesla autonomous-driving initiatives: Its entire fleet can learn to drive itself.
Ramping up the Autopilot software team at Tesla to achieve generalized full autonomy. If interested, contact [email protected].
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2015
We are looking for hardcore software engineers. No prior experience with cars required. Please include code sample or link to your work.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2015
Should mention that I will be interviewing people personally and Autopilot reports directly to me. This is a super high priority.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2015
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