California Public Utilities Commission have voted to allow the Waymo and Cruise to expand their robotaxi service to thousands of vehicles in San Francisco. Before expansion Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise were limited in times and areas they could operate. Cruise cars can only be accessed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the Sunset, …
Purdue University has developed HADAR, heat-assisted detection and ranging, which sees texture and depth and perceives physical attributes of people and environments. HADAR vividly recovers the texture from the cluttered heat signal and accurately disentangles temperature, emissivity and texture, or TeX, of all objects in a scene. It sees texture and depth through the darkness …
Tesla has converted the last piece of Tesla FSD to AI neural networks. The last piece was vehicle control. The 300,000+ lines of C++ control code is now about 3000 lines of code to activate AI neural networks. Elon Musk says Tesla AI/FSD progress is only compute constrained now and not engineer constrained. Tesla is …
The limitations for Tesla AI development are programming resources, AI architecture, compute resources, training data and financial resources. Tesla has started operating its Dojo AI training supercomputer and this will scale to over 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Tesla will likely continue to expands its AI supercomputing datacenters and cloud. Tesla continuing its …
Members of the Safe Street Rebels is placing traffic cones on Cruise and Waymo vehicles to disable the self-driving robotaxis. The cones on the hoods of the cars confuse the driving software. On Thurs 7/13, the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) will vote to expand AVs in San Francisco. Cruise and Waymo promise they’ll reduce …
Ark Invests described how compute and data are the keys to self driving (autonomy). Tesla has both large amounts of compute and driving data. Waymo and Cruise have 100 to 1000 times less driving data than Tesla. Tesla probabably has 10x more compute and will scale to 200X more compute. Waymo and Cruise are likely …
For years, Alphabet’s Waymo, Tesla and others leaders have promised autonomous vehicles will be here soon. However, we are currently short of the promised robotaxi capabilities. Here is a summary of the current situation. Tesla Full self-driving beta for city streets to roughly 400,000 customers in North America. FSD is bought by about 10% of …
Robotaxis on public streets are causing dozens of problems each month for firetrucks, ambulances and police cars and city traffic. California state agencies have set up the rules where city leaders cannot block autonomous vehicle regulation. San Francisco and Los Angeles are fighting the expansion of robotaxi operations. Thee Los Angeles Department of Transportation and …
Tesla is starting production of the Dojo AI training Supercomputer next month. Tesla will have 13 Exaflops of AI training by the end of 2023 and 100 Exaflops by the end of 2024. Jan 2023 3 Exaflops of AI compute, 10,000 Nvidia A100 June 2023 5.5 Exaflops, 17,000 Nvidia A100 Oct 2023 13 Exaflops, 40,000 …
There are some self-driving trucks on the road by widescale deployment still seems to be 3-5 years away. There are publically traded self-driving truck technology such as Aurora Innovation (AUR), Embark Technology (EMBK) and TuSimple (TSP). Privately held self driving truck companies are like Gatik, Plus, Torc Robotics and Kodiak Robotics. Gatik specializes in shorter …
The Stanford Alpaca AI demonstrated the use of a larger and more expensive AI model to train a smaller and cheaper model. The cheaper model was as good and in come cases better than the more expensive model. The more expensive AI model generated vast amounts of better training data to improve the smaller model. …