Cruise and Waymo Robotaxi Expansion Plans Despite Many Recorded Problems

Cruise is expanding its self-driving car operation to Los Angeles. CNBC reports Cruise has 400 robotaxi’s and most are in San Francisco. There are over 2000 robotaxi vehicles in California. Cruise is increasing autonomous rides by 49% per month and are doing more than 10,000 rides per week. Cruise CEO said they were operating tens …

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Chuck Cook Says Next Release of Tesla FSD 11.3.X Wll Be Ready for Wide Release

Chuck Cook is well known as being a very thorough tester of Tesla FSD software. He has had four drives with the new single software stack Tesla FSD 11.3.1. He conclusion is that with minor adjustments that it will be ready for wide release in the next dot release which would be FSD 11.3.2. The …

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Mobileye CES 2023 Updates Shifting from Multiple Moonshots to Incremental

Mobileye presented their self-driving and driver-assist technology at the 2023 CES. Mobileye wants to change the terminology from level one to level to a user-based terminology. Mobileye Supervision and incremental improvement is like the incremental and profitable Tesla approach with Autopilot and FSD. Tesla’s FSD beta is already “eyes-on, hands-off” with 285,000 users for the …

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Tesla Autopilot Prevents 40 Accelerator Accidents Per Day

Talk given at the Workshop on Autonomous Driving at CVPR 2022. It discussed Occupancy Networks and other technical aspects of Tesla Autopilot and Full Self Driving. Eshok provided info of accidents prevented and lives saved by Autopilot. I had a video that covers Tesla leading in safety based upon third party and regulator statistics. Brian …

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Neural Network Transformers Explained and Why Tesla FSD has an Unbeatable Lead

Dr. Know-it-all Knows it all explains how Neural Network Transformers work. Neural Network Transformers were first created in 2017. He explains how Transformers remember data better than other neural network architectures. Neural Network Transformers are the basis for Tesla FSD. Neural Network Transformers continually improve with more and more data. Tesla FSD now has over …

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Tesla Full Self Driving Actually Safer Than Human Drivers So Far

Tesla Full Self Driving beta is being used by over 100,000 people. Normally 100,000 US drivers have 12.4 fatal accidents each year. This is over one fatality per month. Normally 100,000 drivers would have 163 accidents with injuries each month. There are so far no reported injury or fatality accidents after over four months of …

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Elon Musk Interviewed by Lex Friedman on Mars, Tesla FSD and Teslabot

Elon Musk had a 2.5 hour interview with Lex Friedman where he talked SpaceX Starship, Mars, Tesla FSD and Teslabot. Elon Musk is back to being confident that the Raptor 2 mass production problems will be overcome. There are a lot of unique materials in the Raptor. They created new alloys. It is also a …

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