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>And it was Autopilot that set off a race to develop advanced driver-assistance systems that can guide cars under certain circumstances and actively prevent col
by imh 9y ago
>And it was Autopilot that set off a race to develop advanced driver-assistance systems that can guide cars under certain circumstances and actively prevent collisions — though Tesla’s technology appears to have been surpassed by the self-driving systems from other companies, including G.M. and the Google spinoff Waymo.
Is this in any way true? My understanding was that Waymo, or even the DARPA grand challenges, were what kicked self driving cars off, and the driver assist features were picking up steam before Tesla.
- BariumBlue 9y agoA bit of both; there were self-driving cars before Tesla, but Tesla was the first to commercially field any kind of "autopilot" feature, spurring on the existing competition
- imh 9y agoWhat was new about their autopilot? My googling is uninformative :-\
- BariumBlue 9y agoJust that it was actually commercially fielded, rather than in some test environment somewhere
- imh 9y agoSorry, I was unclear. I meant, new relative to the other things commercially fielded. That's the part I had thought others had.