Tesla Next Generation 4 Million Car Per Year Production Plan and FSD Coming to China

There are reports (rumors) from China that Tesla is planning a next generation low-priced high volume car with initial production capacity of 4 million vehicles. 36 Krypton learned from several industry insiders that Tesla is planning a grand production capacity map for its new low-priced models.   “This low-priced model is a small Model Y.” The …

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Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs

Alphabet’s Waymo , self-driving company, has laid off 8% (209 employees) of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure. 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 Science News …

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Tesla FSD Version 11.3 Wide Release in About Two Weeks

Elon Musk tweeted it looks like V11.3 will be ready for wide release in about 2 weeks. Many major improvements. Looks like V11.3 will be ready for wide release in about 2 weeks. Many major improvements. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2023 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science …

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Tesla FSD Will Drive Without Maps in a Few Months $TSLA

Elon Musk has tweeted that Tesla FSD will drive without map data within a few months. Tesla will submit FSD to European regulators soon. Tesla has expanded its FSD Beta to those with driving scores above 91. Also, FSD Beta 10.12.2 now expanding to 100k cars. 10.13 smooths out intersection control, especially long lefts, and …

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Elon Musk Describes Tesla Differences and Advantages

Elon Musk describes Tesla differences and advantages. This was highlighted with commentary from Dave Lee. Typical OEMs (car makers) just assemble car parts made by suppliers and may make the engine. Other carmakers do not write their own software. OEMs use a car dealer network to sell and service their cars. Tesla sells and services …

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Tesla Improves FSD Software by Using Vector Space Lanes

Andrej Karpathy, Director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, describes the improvements to Tesla FSD Beta 10.11 Tesla FSD 10.11 is using vecotr spaces lanes to reduce errors and have minimizes phantom breaking. FSD Beta 10.11 release notes. Fave item:"Upgraded modeling of lane geometry from dense rasters (“bag of points”) to an autoregressive …

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Tesla FSD 10 Testers Agree a Large Improvement Has Been Delivered

Tesla full self-driving testers are reporting that FSD Beta 10 is a large improvement. They agree that in 2-4 weeks it will be ready for the start of wide opt-in release. They are feeling far more confident and comfortable using FSD. Gali of Hyperchange now thinks that robotaxi level could be reached in 6 months. …

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