Tesla FSD 12.5 (Full self driving) is proving to be another major leap in capability. Elon has said that 12.6 should be able to get to one intervention per year of driving. This would mean 15,000 to 20,000 miles per intervention if this is correct. Elon talked about the possibility of having drives without the …
Tesla missed slightly on earnings per share. Financials improved but not as much as hoped. EPS was (non-GAAP) was 52 cents per share. There was not positive new guidance on car volumes. This is causing the shares to trade down. The restructuring charges for the layoffs were about $280 million more than expected at $622 …
Elon Musk confirms that Cybertruck FSD will be released with FSD 12.5. FSD 12.5 finally merges city and highway driving code. Highway driving has been handled by autopilot. Tesla Autopilot driver assist has one collision every 7.6 million miles which is about 8 times safer than Tesla without Autopilot activated and about 13 times safer …
Chuck Cook has drone video of Tesla FSD 12.5 supervised making many perfect unprotected left turns. Tesla FSD is the Full Self Driving product which is a driver assist system the human driver must supervise the driving system. As of Tesla FSD F12.3.6, human drivers will not need to touch the steering wheel. It is …
Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla FSD 12.5 is in final testing after Tesla cars were spotted testing at Chuck Cooks unprotected left turn. Elon confirmed that there are important design improvements being made to the Cybercab which will be unveiled at a delayed event. Brian Wang talks with Herbert Ong about the developments that clarify …
Elon confirms Tesla test drivers are validating FSD 12.5. This means a new FSD version is soon to be released. Chuck Cook is a famous Tesla FSD tester. He has an unprotected left turn near his house which is a challenging and critical test of any self driving system. When Chuck sees Tesla FSD cars …
Tesla Youtuber and friend of Nextbigfuture, Warren Redlich, reports that his Tesla sources give a more plausible story around the August 8, 2024 Robotaxi event. Bloomberg had reported that there would be a two month delay for the August 8, 2024 event. The stated reason was to get more prototypes built. Elon Musk confirmed it. …
Youtuber Connecting the Dots makes the case for Tesla to use Robotaxi to replace Uber. The BG2 podcast (VCs that own Uber and Tesla) suggest that it would be better for Tesla to partner with Uber. He believes Tesla could use the X (aka Twitter) user base to seed a critical mass of ridehail users …
The reason that Bloomberg gave to for delaying the Tesla Robotaxi event from August 8, 2024 does not make sense. There would be no reason to delay until October to show more robotaxi prototype cars. Tesla can have another event where they show cars. Also, the robotaxi vehicles need to be mass produced. Prototypes are …
There is a report from Bloomberg that the August 8, 2024 Tesla robotaxi event was delayed to October, 2024. This has caused about a 10% selloff in Tesla stock. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science …
Ark Invest has observed that Baidu robotaxi is several times bigger than Waymo. They also report that the robotaxi and Tesla FSD systems are already safer than human driving. These are observations that Nextbigfuture has already reported over the past few weeks in more detail. China Robotaxi Companies are Giving More Rides than Waymo The …