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So Elon says that Tesla will reveal a dedicated robotaxi vehicle on 8/8. What do you think we will see? Will it look like this concept art or something else? I will say that while this concept drawing looks super cool, I am a bit skeptical if it is practical as a robotaxi. It looks to only...

At GTC20204, Jensen just revealed the new Blackwell platform with an AI superchip with 208B transistors!!! WOW! Imagine what a trillion parameter scale generative AI could achieve?

Karpathy wrote an interesting blog on how self-driving can be an early case study into AGI: Read the full blog: https://karpathy.github.io/2024/01/21/selfdriving-agi/ Self-driving as a case study for AGI Jan 21, 2024 Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of...

Elon: Huang: Source: I feel like Elon and Huang are not defining AGI the same. So that will throw things off a bit. We need a commonly accepted standard definition for AGI.

I hope some of you are interested in this:

I know we often use terms that not everyone on this forum may be familiar with. So I made this handy glossary for AI, Machine Learning and Autonomous Driving: Autonomous Vehicle (AV) A vehicle with the hardware and software to drive without human input. Advanced Driver Assist System (ADAS) The...

First, I want to acknowledge all the hard work of the Tesla FSD team. Tesla has spent years building a sophisticated vision-only system. And the perception part is very advanced. I am not saying that Tesla Vision is perfect. There are still gaps in the perception system. But I feel like Tesla...

"The chips, to be manufactured on Samsung’s 4-nanometer node, will go into Tesla’s Hardware 5 (HW 5.0) computers, which the EV maker plans to mass-produce three to four years from now, industry officials said on Tuesday." https://www.kedglobal.com/korean-chipmakers/newsView/ked202307180017 If...

More interesting news on E2E progress. TL;DR: SenseTime got Best Paper Award at CVPR2023 for a paper that proposes a new groundbreaking end-to-end model for autonomous driving. The model called UniAD (Unified Autonomous driving) combines full stack driving tasks, including detection, mapping in...

Tesla is also building generative AI models like GAIA-1 that Wayve demo'ed recently: And it looks like Dojo production will start next month with an estimated 100 exa-flops by Oct 2024:

Amnon Shashua's talk at the Hebrew University's Celebrating AI Revolution conference, made in honor of The Science of Amnon Shashua. In his talk, Amnon dives deep into the revolution of reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) - the advancements and the dangers. Quick Notes 2023 LLMs are...

Mobileye published a blog that details their new proposed taxonomy for autonomous driving that they introduced at CES. They propose 4 axes: (i) Eyes-on/Eyes-off (ii) Hands-on/Hands-off (iii) Driver versus No-driver (iv) MRM requirement You get 4 categories that can be actual products: 1)...

As we approach the end of 2022, it is almost that time to start thinking about 2023. So post your autonomous driving predictions for 2023! Here are mine: Waymo Begins public road testing of the Geely driverless vehicle Launches "trusted rider" driverless in LA Expands driverless to south of...

"Elon Musk has chosen to name Tom Zhu, the President of Tesla China, as the American EV manufacturer's global CEO, according to people familiar with the situation." https://en.pingwest.com/w/11121 I don't think this means that Elon is stepping down. I read this as Tom Zhu is simply in charge...

Tesla announced today that they are transitioning away from ultrasonic sensors and replacing them Tesla Vision: https://www.tesla.com/support/transitioning-tesla-vision

I feel like this is good news for EV range. Battery tech is getting seriously good IMO.

Great video by an AV engineer on why we should get rid of Level 5. He argues that L5 does not make sense. L5 is redundant since L4 is already full autonomy. L4 does all the driving tasks without a human. Furthermore, people think L5 means "FSD everywhere with no limitations" but actually SAE...

I am having this issue with the charge port. The little notch inside that holds the charger keeps moving and clicking on its own when I open the charge port. I made a short video of the issue. I put in service request. I will see what Tesla Service Center does.

I saw Evannex is selling these door handle upgrades for the Model 3: https://evannex.com/products/door-handle-upgrade-for-tesla-model-3-and-model-y They are designed to make the door handles easier to grip and avoid frozen door handle problem in the winter. They look really nice and...

I am curious: why do you want autonomous driving? For me, I think the main reason is safety. Driving is risky and can be stressful. Even if you are attentive, you can still get into an accident because of another bad driver. We see so many accidents per year, often with tragic results. It would...

I got into my first accident. I was in a hurry and backed out of my driveway fast without looking and hit a car that was passing by on the residential lane. As you can see the rear of the car suffered significant damage. I did not suffer any injury. I am sad for my car. Hopefully the Tesla...

Lucid announced that the DreamDrive ADAS will use the Nvidia Drive Hyperion platform: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/22/lucid-motors-intelligent-evs-nvidia-drive I was curious how Lucid would go and it appears they are going with Nvidia. Photo: Lucid Motors

I think this is pretty cool. Mitsubishi is working on a system that combines the computer vision that is used in self-driving cars with natural language AI so it can speak to the driver and help them navigate and drive. It is called "scene aware interaction technology". It can give navigation...

I noticed that when FSD Beta reaches the destination in the nav, the car just comes to a complete stop. The problem is the destination in the nav is still outside the actual destination. For example, when I enter Meijer's in the nav, FSD Beta will say I arrived at my destination and come to a...

Elon had a few things to say about Dojo during the Earnings Call today: Elon seems to be really downplaying Dojo in his answer, basically saying that he hopes Dojo will be better but he is not really sure when. He even says that Dojo is not needed for FSD.

From the shareholder deck that was just released for the earnings call later today, Tesla says that there are now 60,000 FSD beta testers: Earnings Call Release I am very pleasantly surprised. That number is higher that I thought it would be.

Saw this news that IIHS is implementing a new safeguard rating for advanced driver assist systems like Autopilot, SuperCruise etc... Here is the key part: https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/iihs-creates-safeguard-ratings-for-partial-automation

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-11/dmv-message-to-legislatures-ontesla-full-self-driving-safety-its-not-our-job Looks like CA DMV may close the "L2 loophole" and treat FSD Beta as autonomous and require Tesla to report disengagements etc...

There is an intersection I take that they recently repaved but had not repainted all the lane markings yet. When you approach the intersection, the two lanes become left turn only and there is a third right turn only lane that appears on the right side of the road. There are overhead turn only...

The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium just published a best practices paper called "AVSC Best Practice for Evaluation of Behavioral Competencies for Automated Driving System Dedicated Vehicles (ADS-DVs)" In it they have a nice table of the elemental set of behavior competencies that companies...

It's an unsubstantiated rumor at this point so take it with a big grain of salt. But do we believe it? I think it has a ring of truth to it. It would make sense for Tesla to upgrade the cameras at some point. Furthermore, other companies like Mobileye are using 12 cameras. So I could definitely...

Saw this NHTSA report on Twitter: I believe there was an accident since we have a report to the NHTSA but the details of what happened sound suspicious to me. If the driver tried to turn the wheel, it should have disengaged FSD and gone back into TACC only where the driver would be in control...

I think the Hertz deal is more likely to be the reason for TSLA jumping 5%. Investors care more about a multi billion dollar deal than they do about a software patch going out.

Independent global research firm, Arlington Research conducted a study with 2,000 U.S. adults (aged 18+) with nationally representative quotas set on gender, age and region at a country-wide level. Research was conducted in 2021 using an online methodology. The study found that a lot of people...

From the Tesla Insurance page: https://www.tesla.com/support/insurance It says the package includes liability protection. So does it protect the Tesla owner if the car gets into an accident while on FSD Beta?

According to this tweet about the Tesla employee meeting, Elon said that he is considering the "Model 2" not having a steering wheel or pedals. So I thought we could do a poll: will the "Model 2" have a steering wheel and pedals? Also, I am putting "Model 2" in quotes because Elon has said that...

Car and Driver tested the L2 ADAS systems from other manufacturers and found that their driver monitoring can be tricked as well. It's not just Tesla that has this problem. Here is the full article: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a37260363/driver-assist-systems-tested/ Here is the video...

Looks like Tesla is redesigning the mobile app, adding some slicker animations and adding direct access to the Tesla shop: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-mobile-app-redesign-update-images-video/ See a preview here:

Alex Roy who works at Argo AI offers a simple litmus test for determining if a car is really self-driving or not: "Pick a vehicle. Can you get in, pick a destination and safely go to sleep? If yes, it’s self-driving. If no, it’s not" Source: It's Not a Self-Driving Car Unless You Can Sleep...

Green posted this on Twitter: Thoughts?

Elon just tweeted that the new "auto shift" feature currently on the Model S Plaid will come as an optional feature to all Teslas with FSD: I wondered about this. Auto Shift would seem to just require a software update. So there is no reason Tesla could not push the feature in an OTA update...

I found this blog from Dr. Philip Koopman, Edge Case Research & Carnegie Mellon University, where he proposes a new classification system for autonomous driving: https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-driver-centric-users-guide-to-vehicle.html It does not replace the SAE levels but he...

Lyft put together some short tutorial videos on "autonomy 2.0" which is the approach of using machine learning for all autonomous driving tasks, from perception to prediction and planning. In other words, no "hand coded" algorithms at all in the entire stack. I thought these videos might be...

Karpathy just finished a new presentation moments ago at CVPR 2021. Here is livestream. Karpathy presentation starts around 7:53:00: He mentions FSD Beta can do zero intervention drives in sparse conditions but struggles with dense, high adversity conditions (like busy traffic in San...

Wall Street Journal has an interesting article today about self-driving cars: https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-could-be-decades-away-no-matter-what-elon-musk-said-11622865615 Basically, some AI experts are arguing that AI is not good enough yet for true full self-driving cars...

First details of starship's first orbital test flight:

Well this is good news!

Full blog: Holistic Video Scene Understanding with ViP-DeepLab

"Two men are dead after a Tesla traveling in Spring crashed into a tree and no one was driving the vehicle, officials say. The crash happened at 11:25 p.m. in the Carlton Woods subdivision near The Woodlands. The car burst into flames after hitting a tree near 18 Hammock Dunes Place. Harris...