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Tesla admits it may never achieve full-self-driving cars
- dbbk 5y agoThese disclosures always hedge.
- noahmotion 5y agoDoes a Tesla with "driver assist" autopilot driven by a neuralink chimp count as fully self-driving? What if it's on Mars?
- gregoriol 5y agoNot sure the location would be important to the matter, but clearly easier to apply on Mars where there are no roads yet (can be created safe for self-driving) and no other vehicules!
- jxidjhdhdhdhfhf 5y agoAny hypothetical new tech "may" happen or "may never" happen. That isn't saying anything.
- cududa 5y agoWell yeah it’s an SEC disclosure. You have to include risk factors
- jjeaff 5y agoI wonder why they didn't include that risk factor last year?
- freyir 5y agoTech companies dumping their self-driving R&D divisions seems like a stronger admission that full self-driving is unlikely to materialize in the near future.
- nyxtom 5y agoI think it’s entirely possible that they simply don’t have the necessary scale. As far as I can tell the only remaining competitors are Intel and Tesla given that both MobileEye and Tesla have actively accumulating real world data.
- canada_dry 5y ago> a driverless Tesla ran off the road, hit a tree, and caught fire, killing two passengers inside. The victims were reportedly discussing the vehicle’s semi-autonomous Autopilot feature moments before the accident. Yeech, that's tragic. The admission regarding fully autonomous is not really a shocker... but it still lowers my hopeful expectations for sooner-rather-than-later leaps.
- withthewind 5y agoI hope one of the rich Arab gulf states try to build roads designed for self driving. Would be a spectacle to see and they are probably the only ones who could fund it.