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    George Hotz's ‘comma one’ cancelled

    it would be nice, if comma ai offered packaged solution ( like early Cruise Automation package ) with radar and cameras for any car. Maybe they will offer that in the future
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    Training methodology for autonomous vehicles

    possibly nvidia blog post and accompanying paper might give you some hints How Our Deep Learning Tech Taught a Car to Drive | NVIDIA Blog
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    Autopilot simulation!

    more than year ago here I argued for simulations to improve autopilot Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents glad this idea gets some steam :)
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    "Dataray"... was that a typo? (tech talk)

    suppose it was "high speed data rate bus" and possibly it's either IEEE 802.3bw-2015 bus or IEEE P802.3bp Why the new Ethernet standard will spur innovation in the connected car
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    EVs better take off soon!

    that is because they did not check https://www.researchgate.net/file.PostFileLoader.html?id=573ad967dc332d855a065001&assetKey=AS:362652636336131@1463474535007 or Laboratory studies of dune sand for the use of construction industry in Sri Lank
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    EVs better take off soon!

    :) it is more about local sand ( see some more details on the same topic https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/opinion/the-worlds-disappearing-sand.html?_r=0 ) . Now - remote lands ( Sakhara, other deserts ) are full of sand. And here, electric power again turns to help: no need to burn fuel to...
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    EVs better take off soon!

    it is not a question really. Because asphalt is quite replaced with concrete Road surface - Wikipedia and plastics and petrochemicals are quite well produced from biomass - google is your friend (SynGas to Ehylene and Propylene, plastics from sugars, furan )
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    Tesla's Autopilot needs to be shut down and NHTSA needs to do their due diligence

    few videos of AP2 (for non owners of AP2)
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    a link on the topic Robot Cars Can Teach Themselves How to Drive in Virtual Worlds
  10. K

    Elon getting into the tunneling business!

    seems one extension of tunneling business might be building those things: Floating train at 2000 km/h set to store 10% of Dutch electricity it really synergetic to what Tesla does: tunneling+renewable energy
  11. K

    WANTED: Engine Noise Simulator

    For Tesla software devs: as there is a demand from many people - the sample code for engine sound : vdrift/carsound.cpp at master · VDrift/vdrift · GitHub vdrift/carengine.cpp at master · VDrift/vdrift · GitHub ( no need to copy this GPL code - but to get idea ) ( complete game can be...
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    WANTED: Engine Noise Simulator

    that's pretty easy to implement - there are lot of vehicle simulators with engine sounds, basically the sound part is couple pages of code ( plus 'simulated engine' - it's another couple pages of code - there is no need to be absolutely correct here - just to be good enough). Now what is...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    got your idea - offline post processing of images, telemetry from game ( why them? because ALL points to your conclusion according to you) is human facing. as for me - gui like nvidia shows is a possibility - but maybe not. the reason I do not think three people are needed is that it was my...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    Checked profiles, yes Robert Lin is a specialist in UI. and I also now think he will be working on UI as for I would gladly ask to give your theory on how it follows from " - Created in-game render debug view modes so that developers can quickly check why rendering doesn't work as expected...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    OK we will see if all those people which designed game mechanic internals will produce that new UI which you expect
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    in Google case (an image with gathered data from Lidars ) they have really good real world data, which is mapped to 3D. now with Tesla case - they have a 2D radar which is software proceeded to give some 3D data (but they still fight to distinguish overpasses - as we seen from reports from HW2...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    ok I see, that you do not see any value in links in my top posts - the trick there is that without 3D representation the described type of learning is not possible, but with 3D rendering it is possible and gives huge benefits for faster and better development of autonomous navigation...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    Deep Q learning is subtype of Q-learning and is a machine learning algorithm Q-learning - Wikipedia so what is needed here - is data - 'event' 'action' - and fleet learning ( in Teslas ) uses such types of algorithms, no question But - you say, that what I proposed and now is developing in...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    ok, would be glad you to point to any talk, where game simulation is mentioned. Note - "various machine learning techniques" are not necessary used via game-like simulations. It is quite straightforward to use machine learning and not using additional game-like simulations - ex just by gathering...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    just've read Electrek article Tesla comings and goings: video game programmers, an Israeli tank designer, automation experts and more apparently, now Tesla develops simulator.
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    Initial 1000 HW2 cars getting AP software 12/31/16

    you might figure out that we know not so much, I might offer a tweet from Elon Elon Musk on Twitter and couple of links Tesla hires creator of Swift programming language from Apple to lead Autopilot software The guy who designed many of Apple’s iconic Macs will now be building Tesla vehicles
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    with the release on software for hardware 2.0 we have some more 'data points' thus there is some more food to think on topic question. 1. those frequent 'red cars' false positives with hardware2 are due to lack of adequate 3D reasoning, while info from Tesla indicates radar has some 3D...
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    EAP HW2 - my experience thus far... [DJ Harry]

    it will be interesting to track speed of learning. NVIDIA claimed that their system "performance continually improved" ( How Our Deep Learning Tech Taught a Car to Drive | NVIDIA Blog ), given that Tesla took similar approach though with their own code and with already setup 'fleet learning', we...
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    Initial 1000 HW2 cars getting AP software 12/31/16

    reading impressions of drivers (ex jumping dividing lines on dashboard ) it is still what I observe: a major part - those 'vision' algorithms from Tesla cameras which replaced proprietary mobileye camera system are not trained enough to be safe at high speed or allow to unlock other parts (...
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    Initial 1000 HW2 cars getting AP software 12/31/16

    I'm sorry for you. But you knew from AP1 that 'tuning' of AI ( specifically neural net ) takes a lot of time. What you describe as you impressions are essentially set of misunderstandings of how neural nets are working. To code them is one problem, but tuning them is another, much bigger...
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    HW2 Autopilot - is it just me? or....

    Let's see how it might go. Current autopilot is entirely new software with new neural net and as it was said - it needs some millions miles to iron out. That is just a nature of neural nets - they are very slow to train - not a feature of software as is. From software point of view capabilities...
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    Initial 1000 HW2 cars getting AP software 12/31/16

    see this thread 8.0 (2.50.185) unsafe to use.
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    Tesla hires head of Delphi’s Advanced Radar Systems group to improve on its own radar technology Tesla intends to improve it's radar, and so this link belongs to this thread.
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    I think much depends on what will be actually achieved with AP 2.0 - currently this is an open question. Of cause, AP 2.0 will perform most of autonomous level 3 and 4 driving functions, but then there is a question - what corner cases it might not solve. if there will be apparent deficiencies...
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    then one more link http://gizmodo.com/a-new-technique-makes-gps-accurate-to-an-inch-1758457807 - gps + inertial navigation -> 1 inch accuracy.
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    accuracy of radar can be ~4 centimeters MIT Lincoln Laboratory: News: Lincoln Laboratory demonstrates highly accurate vehicle localization under adverse weather conditions then radar can be used more efficiently, than now link: Toyota Bets Big On Autonomous Tech, Swallows Millimeter Wave Radar...
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    Autopilot 3.0 Hardware: When and what?

    nvidia plans to launch update of their autonomous driving hardware by the end of 2017 Introducing NVIDIA Xavier | NVIDIA Blog . As Tesla likely will follow cooperation with nvidia, that means either by the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018 there will be next iteration. How it will be called...
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    Autonomous Driving Corner Cases

    on comments here: there are different AI algorithms to solve corner cases. It's correct that deep neural net will learn from repeated observations, but training neural net might take quite a time, so even with huge fleet it might take years to learn most of corner cases. Google has devised an...
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    AP 2.0 and retrofit

    on radar: from first link "The real difficulty would be to retrofit the additional radar antennas. They are installed in the bumpers, which means you’d have to take the front and back bumpers out to install them and then readjust everything for a good fit."
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    AP 2.0 and retrofit

    searched for more info Tesla Autopilot 2.0: retrofit to next gen sensors likely to be available for some owners and Autopilot Retrofit on Classic P85 | wk057's SkieNET yes, looks costly and new radar is different. Still,seems, there will be someone who will try such a retrofit
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    AP 2.0 and retrofit

    while it is clear, that it is very difficult to completely retrofit current Teslas with new features or Elon would catch opportunity to offer upgrade, there are few things which could be done 1. install new 8 meters ultrasound sensors in place of current sensors 2. new radar in place of old...
  37. K

    AP 2.0 upgrade path?

    I think that Tesla might devise a path similar to that taken by Comma.ai - to design upgrade package for current fleet. But might require to petition Tesla for such an upgrade package
  38. K

    My outdated 2016 Model S

    one thought: it is quite possible that Tesla will offer something like Comma.ai upgrade for current fleet. it will require to attend service center, but otherwise - why not?
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    next step in replacement of lidar requirement for autonomous vehicles

    nonetheless authors of http://web.media.mit.edu/~shiboxin/files/Kadambi_ICCV15.pdf think that autonomous cars could benefit from this approach for not only to restore 3d scene but also see in rain and smog ( though that is still is in research phase ) Polarization Data Enhances 3D Scanning...
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    Which candidate is better for Tesla?

    what that means? State actually makes quite a bit in how technology develops. Look at extreme examples here https://www.amazon.com/War-Necessary-Economic-Growth-Procurement/dp/0195188047 the same way as state spent on military tech which in large transformed modern world it spends now on...
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    Tesla vision (Electrek article)

    Tesla works on new 'Tesla Vision' platform for autonomous driving Tesla is about to increase its lead in semi-autonomous driving w/ ‘Tesla Vision’: computer vision based on NVIDIA’s parallel computing
  42. K

    Which candidate is better for Tesla?

    according to Why Hillary Clinton's energy plan probably won't work Clinton favors to reduce oil consumption by third by 2027 and the way to get to the point is to promote electric cars. So I think Clinton is better for Tesla
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    next step in replacement of lidar requirement for autonomous vehicles

    cannot figure if following belongs more to 'technical' or to autonomous topic, but if anything wrong, mods will make right action. So the story is that, you know, Elon has idea, that radar can replace lidar for AP for all situations, while others think differently. From what we can see so...
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    Nvidia autonomous links

    browsed text on youtube below video and found a link which leads to NVIDIA DRIVE auto-pilot and cockpit computers where Tesla is listed as a partner ( icon on partner list ) and current processor NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 is mentioned. So AP2.0 still might use nvidia DRIVE PX 2. And then maybe...
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    Nvidia autonomous links

    Video and an article Green Car Congress: NVIDIA introduces Xavier AI supercomputer designed for autonomous driving
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    another take on this. up to version 8.0 radar was a secondary detection device which did not produce '3D' info - rather a 3D cloud. Temporal smoothing which provides something like 'object contours restoration' was announced just in this summer. Thus - there were no reasons to make simulations...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    and how do you know? those silly errors ( like AP does not slow down when someone cuts from another lane and only few inches are left just in front of Teslas ) or strange behavior near big trucks could be learnt from simulations and eliminated - but still those errors persist more: that...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    btw while fleet learning helps Tesla autopilot a lot, it might be a good idea, having huge amount of data ( what vehicles 'see' on the road ), to create a vehicle simulator which one one hand - simulates a tesla car with the use of real data and decisions being made by autopilot and...
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    Game AI approach to help autonomous cars to avoid incidents

    Found and decided to share one interesting approach to increase AI effectiveness which is also potentially applicable to autonomous cars Next Big Future: Artificial Intelligence Agent outplays human and the in Game AI in Doom Video Game ( the paper is here [1609.05521] Playing FPS Games with...
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    Firmware 8.0

    On theory: Elon mentioned 'learning' as new radar based AI decision system requires some tuning on new data, because, in sense - all previous data is more or less obsolete. Thus, perhaps, they analyze statistics, comparing that to what they already have with 7.1 and also make that mentioned...