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Technically Tesla has far more vehicles on the road than Google does, and if they came up with a way to use their cars to capture data they'd have better maps t
by astrodust 9y ago
Technically Tesla has far more vehicles on the road than Google does, and if they came up with a way to use their cars to capture data they'd have better maps than Google for major cities in the course of a single weekend.
The problem is bandwidth for upload, but if SpaceX launches internet satellites the Tesla cars can get free access to...
- magnetic 9y agoI suspect they're doing that already. I don't think the bandwidth is an issue, unless they plan on reporting full frames of visual data (ie pixel maps) rather than vectorized or telemetry data. They can always use a store & forward approach if they want to limit their interface usage to WiFi. For real time data (like traffic conditions), even their 3G network should be sufficient (remember that they are already streaming music over it).
- drewg123 9y agoI don't think b/w is a problem. They are capturing different large chunks of video data already for improving self driving, and uploading via owner's wifi. Some owners with rooted cars have reported large video uploads, and have noted that Tesla seems to have a "trigger" system that uploads camera data based on certain conditions. Eg, "it was raining and driver reclaimed control from AP in a curve"..
- astrodust 9y agoI don't know about you, but I'd be pretty cheesed off if my car blew my bandwidth cap because it was secretly uploading terabytes of mapping information over the course of a month. If it was doing it via some other method, like via satellite, I wouldn't be concerned. Little car, do your thing!