David Lee summarized and analyzed Andrej Karpathy recent technical presentation on Tesla FSD. Andrej indicated that Tesla already has over 1.8 Exaflop of processing power with 10 Petabytes of storage for its AI training computer. This is the training supercomputer that Tesla is using before the full Dojo system is set up. Andrej also indicated …
Mr Know It All has a projection that Tesla should solve FSD (Full self-driving) to a six sigma level within 275 days. This is based upon the improvement of the FSD system matching to the amount of data from the number of miles driven used by Tesla. Tesla currently has about 35 billion kilometers of …
Andrej Karpathy, Director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, says that the cameras and AI used by Tesla can process visual driving data ten times faster than humans. Yes vision is extremely information rich. 8X surround 1.2MP @ 36Hz is a lot of constraints on state of the world, can be processed at …
The Boring Company Vegas Loop capacity testing exceeded 4400 passengers per hour on Tuesday. The LVCVA said it would conduct capacity tests for the loop ahead of World of Concrete, the convention center’s first major trade show since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The almost $50 million loop connects the three different halls of the convention …
Elon Musk tweets FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind and limited Beta release will probably be in two weeks. Probably two weeks — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 29, 2021 Gating factor is achieving & proving higher safety with pure vision than with vision+radar. We are almost there. FSD Beta V9.0 will blow your mind. …
Waymo has two co-CEOs. The Waymo plan is to expand its ridehailing business from Phoenix to other places. Waymo One. They will expand Waymo driving to truck delivering services. Waymo Via. Waymo One and Waymo via will have no driver behind the wheel. Waymo Via has trucks going between Tucson and Texas. Class 8 trucks. …
Elon Musk has tweeted that there was no autopilot or FSD activated during the recent Tesla crash. The best theory that is making the rounds now is that the two people who died in a Tesla crash had accelerated to high speed, did not have control in a turn, hit a tree, this started a …
Self-driving car company, Waymo, is now valued at $30 billion which is $170 billion less than a $200 billion only 18 months ago. Waymo raised $2.25 billion but at lower valuation. They have 600 self driving vehicles in Arizona. Waymo CEO John Krafcik was reconsidering the business, focus on the driver, pivot away from robotaxi and …
NVIDIA unviled the DRIVE Atlan Autonomous Vehicle Platform. It is a Next-generation SoC to deliver more than 1,000 TOPS and equipped with BlueField DPU. Atlan will not be available for a couple of years, software development is well underway. During the GTC 21 keynote address this morning, NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced: DRIVE …
Tesla Autopilot FSD Beta drives from San Francisco to Sausalito with 0 disengagements. FSD Beta 8.2 does well in suburban and rural areas but it still needs improvement for major urban areas. Tesla FSD Beta 8.2 had a couple of disengagements and close calls while driving in Oakland. SOURCES- AI Driver, Whole Mars Catalog, Dirty …
