Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

Post by majormajor » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

xedeon wrote: post #115

opencl wrote: post #104

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If they were anywhere near full autonomy that LA-to-NYC demo they keep promising would have already happened.

Elon mentioned on the Q2 conference call yesterday that specific demo is easily doable. He also added that it would be sort of cheating, because that's a very defined route and he prefers it to be able to be much more dynamic. i.e. pick any two US cites and the car will drive you there.

Post by dev_dull » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

haberman wrote: post #119

Fricken wrote: post #45

Right now, with HW2 Tesla is in kind of an awkward no man's land where their hardware is overkill for basic ADAS, but nowhere near enough for any kind of autonomy that allows the driver to turn their attention away from the driving task. By going to a custom ASIC with inferencing. I have little doubt about Musk's claim that it'll offer a 10x improvement over the current stripped down PX Drive2 variant for deep learni…

I ordered a Tesla Model 3 yesterday. When I see the "Full Self-Driving Capability" checkbox at checkout time (it's an option you can pay $3,000 for right now) I just have zero confidence that they can deliver on this. Almost every other aspect of the car is fantastic. But Tesla's delusions about achieving full self-driving with their current approach just make me lose some respect for them. It makes me worried that t…

Post by xedeon » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 4:53 PM UTC

DmenshunlAnlsis wrote: post #5

coob wrote: post #2

So much for no new hardware required for L5

Just wait until they admit that they need LIDAR too... Cha Ching! Various Autopilot accidents strongly imply that whatever the computer “brain” is doing doesn’t matter if it doesn’t have sufficient “eyes” to actually see things like a fire truck, cop car, or bollard.

Post by tomp » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 4:57 PM UTC

Fricken wrote: post #83

tim333 wrote: post #77

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It's hard to say for sure they are no where near full autonomy in their research although their current vehicles crashing into barriers and fire trucks obviously don't cut it.

I'm only commenting on what little there is to glean about the compute, but there are so many other red flags about their autonomous development strategy. Crippling per-unit cost constraints, No Lidar, SLAM-lite, ANN heavy, insufficient redundancy and they've got a major data collection problem because they're relying on what they can get over the air. Plus Musk scared away most of their their top engineers.

Post by xedeon » Thu, Aug 02, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

gamblor956 wrote: post #124

xedeon wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Elon mentioned on the Q2 conference call yesterday that specific demo is easily doable. He also added that it would be sort of cheating, because that's a very defined route and he prefers it to be able to be much more dynamic. i.e. pick any two US cites and the car will drive you there.

There are a number of routes one can take to get from LA to NY. Elon is stalling because he knows that "Autopilot" isn't capable of making the trip.