Tesla is preparing to roll out its FSD feature in China and will provide a batch of software updates to Chinese EV owners. Launching Tesla FSD (Supervised) in China would add another 3 million potential customers. At a 35% take rate of $99 per month, it would be about $1 billion in profit per year. …
More video of the newly built Tesla cars in Fremont (1500-2000 per day, day and night) driving without human drivers from the factory to the loading dock about 1.2 miles away. There are semi trucks, forklifts and human workers walking along and other cars. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
Baidu revealed progress of their subsidiary, Apollo Go on their earnings call. The number of paid robotaxi rides 1.1 million in 4Q 2024 which is up +36% Year over year The cumulative robotaxi rides now 9 million. This about 25-50% of the level of Waymo. They have some 100% fully driverless (no remote operator) operations. …
Tesla China has officially announced the launch of Actually Smart Summon (ASS) in China. The announcement says Actual Smart Summon is available with Enhanced Autopilot and FSD (Full Self Driving). Full Self Driving has not been authorized in China…yet. However, FSD will be available in China very soon. NEWS: Tesla China has officially announced the …
The TeslaFSDTracker.com (community crowdsourced data) had 260+ testers sign up and report data. @raines1220 has compared FSD testers who have used all versions of FSD and found large improvement in the versions. v12.5.1.3 is ~14x better overall and ~4x safer than v12.3.6 Most testers have not been consistent. There’s only only a handful of people …
Elon Musk will meet Samsung CEO Lee Jae-yong and Hyundai CEO Chung Eui-sun in Paris in early August. It is reported they will dine in Paris this weekend. They will also discuss the development of next-generation technologies and explore ways to cooperate. The meeting was reportedly made at the suggestion of Chairman Lee Jae-yong. Elon …
Crowdsourced data shows that Tesla FSD 12.5 is three to five times better than FSD (Full self driving supervised) 12.3.6. The FSD 12.5 is showing 744 miles between critical disengagement and 111 miles between any disengagement. The FSD critical disengagements improved 3.8 times from 194 miles with 12.3.6. There was also a 3.8 times improvement …
Youtuber Connecting the Dots makes the case for Tesla to use Robotaxi to replace Uber. The BG2 podcast (VCs that own Uber and Tesla) suggest that it would be better for Tesla to partner with Uber. He believes Tesla could use the X (aka Twitter) user base to seed a critical mass of ridehail users …
Elon has said that : All that matters is improving Tesla self-driving AI such that miles between interventions is >> human All that matters is improving Tesla self-driving AI such that miles between interventions is >> human — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2024 Elon and Nextbigfuture agree that all that matters is more self …
Tesla FSD 12.4.1 releases today to Tesla employees. Elon Musk says if that goes well, then it will be released to a limited number of external customers this weekend. There are a massive number of changes to this build. It should arguably be called v13, but we’re sticking to 12 😂 Two other versions are …
May 22, Nvidia Jensen Huang says Tesla is far ahead in self-driving cars and on May 15, Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu’s autonomous driving vehicle department, said in an interview that Baidu is considering potential collaboration opportunities with Tesla for the latter’s upcoming Robotaxi service. Nvidia is supply self driving car companies and robotaxi …