China’s goverment wants to be a global leader in emerging technologies and has identified robotaxi’s and autonomous driving as a key target. The top robotaxi and autonomous vehicle companies in China are: AutoX Baidu Apollo Didi Chuxing Pony.ai WeRide. Baidu Apollo seems to be a world leader with more rides given and miles driven than …
Here is the three page summary of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation of Waymo robotaxi. The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) has received reports of 22 incidents involving Waymo vehicles equipped with Waymo’s 5th generation automated driving system (ADS) wherein the ADS-equipped vehicle was the sole vehicle operated during a collision or wherein …
Waymo is under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said its preliminary evaluation into an estimated 444 Waymo vehicles follows 22 reports of 22 incidents including 17 collisions. The agency said in some of those cases the automated driving systems appeared to disobey traffic safety control devices and some crashes occurred shortly after …
Brian talks with Herbert Ong about Tesla FSD and Robotaxi. FSD is showing accelerated improvement. What will this mean for Tesla in China, globally and what will happen with robotaxi? Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …
Elon Musk has posted that Tesla FSD 12.4 will start its rollout next week. Tesla FSD 12.4 has been almost completely retrained. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes accelerates or brakes too fast for most people’s taste. 12.4 has almost completely retrained models. The final touches are for comfort, as it sometimes …
Chinese officials told Musk that China welcomes Tesla to do some robotaxi tests in the country and hopes it to set a good example, the sources said, but authorities did not immediately approve its widespread use of FSD functions. Tesla will reveal its robotaxi and robotaxi plans on August 8, 2024. China is Tesla’s second-largest …
Tesla FSD has enough compute and driving data for training so the limiting factor is how fast the system can be validated. Only about 1/10,000 of distance driven is useful for training. This means of the 1 billion miles per month that is gathered by Tesla from over 1 million cars using FSD, there is …
Venture Capital legends Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley gave great insights about Tesla robotaxi and Uber ridesharing on the BG2 pod. Brad Gerstner founded the $10 billion Altimeter Capital fund. Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm in San Francisco, California. Gurley has led investments in and holds board …
Tesla is speeding up new car products and modifying current factories with aspects of the next generation unboxed factory processes. The partial updated factory processes will not enable the full full 50% cost reduction previously described for the unboxed process but could see 20-30% cost reductions. This would enable a smoother transition for vehicles volume …
Tesla has made rapid progress with the full self driving system after they completed version 12 of the AI. They have replaced the coded rules for a complete system of neural networks to control perception, navigation and planning. Tesla has announced that they will unveil the robotaxi on August 8, 2024. However, it is now …
Tesla is unveiling the Robotax on August 8, 2024 there is an ongoing ramp of the FSD (full self driving) software. What do we no know and not know about this rapidly changing situation? This is all happening as Tesla’s sales growth is “between two growth waves”. Tesla has cut over 10% of its staff …