Autonomous Vehicles

I think a bunch of discussions had people asking specifically for the full document with SAE's definitions for the different autonomy levels. Previously we only had the summary document to go by: https://www.sae.org/misc/pdfs/automated_driving.pdf In a different discussion @Bladerskb posted a...

There is a clear new trend among automotive companies. They are now innovating again. Tesla is a big driving force in this industry. While I wouldn't say they are "disrupting" the entrenched players, their pace of innovation and acceptance of risk while innovating is certainly pushing big...

So I just read this article and thought about the implication if waymo comes out with their Chrysler minivan that's fully autonomous for about $300/month + $2.2/gallon of fuel used, I will seriously consider cancelling m3 reservation. Keep in mind that waymo is staying fsd will be reliable...

Interesting paper and read out of MIT based on Tesla's vision approach compared to an end to end trained nueral network: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.04459.pdf

There is this talk of robo-taxi's and ride-sharing reducing or even eliminating the need or desire for personal car ownership. In my brief experience with even the limited capability EAP, I would think autonomous vehicles will spur more road travel and individual car ownership. In fact, I...

Remember this: It'll soon be a year since this Model X supposedly drove itself from home to work on public streets and highways, then parked itself while the driver went inside. Some questions come to mind a year later: How was this video staged? Smoke and mirrors? With software that...

Completely driverless cars could hit California roads as early as next June, if not sooner Hope for Tesla FSD soon?

General Motors has acquired LIDAR technology company Strobe, Inc. to bolster the Cruise Automation team’s efforts to develop next-generation technology for self-driving vehicles. “Strobe’s LIDAR technology will significantly improve the cost and capabilities of our vehicles so that we can...

Nvidia unveils new supercomputer for level 5 autonomous driving

Wow, how handy of everyone to conveniently create an entire THREAD that needs to go into snippiness. For the record: Calling someone a troll is a personal attack Calling someone a fanboy is a personal attack. Calling someone a short is a personal attack. Whether height or stock related...

GM's Cruise buys LIDAR company projecting 99% reduction in LIDAR deployment costs GM's Cruise buys LIDAR company to drastically cut self-driving costs

Anybody hear anything about how Hotz's open source, crowd sourced self driving program is coming along?

Elon Musk has given us a perspective on the more widespread use of electric cars, batteries for energy storage in general, rockets that can land for reuse, rapid innercity transit via near-vacuum tubes... Wouldn't it be a good idea "to return the favor"? Have the creativity that is stored in...

Munich Oct 10-12, 2017 Israel Oct 18, 2017 Taiwan Oct 26, 2017 DC Nov 1-2, 2017 Japan Dec 12-13, 2017 Silicon Valley March 26-29, 2018 Plz post all vids, slides/pdfs/docs you can get your hands on. I'll kick off with some good Jensen Huang action here (GTC China 2017) - best part is from 1:17:47

A GM exec slams Tesla's self-driving-car promises — says Elon Musk is 'full of crap' A GM exec slams Tesla's self-driving-car promises — says Elon Musk is 'full of crap'

Hey it’s, I am legally blind and I am getting a model 3 mainly for the autonomous features. While Tesla’s aren’t bad, they really aren’t my top choice for a car. I want an Acura or Chevy but I’ve had it with my struggle. I love to drive. I live in New Jersey and they made it hard as hell to give...

This thread is just a stub to continue discussion on autonomous car progress by other manufacturers and avoid the continual hijacking of other useful threads to discuss this subject.

It seems like Tesla is struggling a little more than expected with the autonomous features since they switched to Nvidia. To me it seems strange to have half your system from Nvidia for the autonomous driving and the other half from Intel for the infotainment. Do you think since Intel owns...

Anybody thought of this problem? Surely Tesla has thought of it and has some kind of plan. When crowdsourced HD maps are built GM/VW (the Mobileye mapping project partners I believe) will have a huge advantage if they choose to start building cameras into all their cars. Out in rural America...

Hello! My name is Muhammad Arif Aiman Mohd Zainurin. I'm a First-Year Engineering student at Purdue University. I'm doing a survey to write my paper for my English class. I'm hoping to get as many responses as possible from Tesla owners before 10/2/2017. Thank you very much for your time! The...

The reviews of this are rather mixed but I haven't seen any long-term reviews in which the author was patient enough to give the camera weeks of yes/no training on faces. I've been training Arlo Pro's and found they become more accurate over time in terms of recognizing people/vehicles/animals...

I think this topic deserves a thread of its own. In September 2017, Mike and @Caleb Elston at the Tesla Show did an excellent podcast on Autopilot simulation (highly recommended listening). I was struck by the huge potential this simulation stuff seems to have. Please note that there's...

Found this lovely vehicle on the Peninsula. Obviously a startup, I got out and tried to ask them more, but they were secretive (claiming stealth mode) and would only verify lidar (duh). I'm assuming varying orientation x 6 is to improve SNR of mapping for testing. Thoughts?

Tesla has worked with AMD to build its own chip for its autonomous driving efforts, according to a report from CNBC. A source familiar with the matter told CNBC that Tesla is currently testing the first implementation of the processor. The project is reportedly being led by Jim Keller, a...

Once autonomous cars get popular, is there a chance that LIDAR, radar, and even infrared light sensors and emitters would interfere with each other across cars? If yes, how? For instance, isn't LIDAR using laser to emit and capture light? What happens if there are multiple LIDARs in cars on...

i have a 100d model x. Has 2.0 hardware footprint. Simply put, why doesn’t tesla use all the cameras in support of L2 autonomy?

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released Tuesday new guidelines that seemingly aim to encourage the development of autonomous vehicle systems. The guidance eliminates a federal mandate requiring carmakers testing autonomous systems to receive government approval before cars...

'System safeguards' lacking in Tesla crash on autopilot: NTSB The limits on the autonomous driving system include factors such as Tesla being unable to ensure driver attention even when the car is traveling at high speeds, ensuring Autopilot is used only on certain roads and monitoring driver...

The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that “operational limitations” of Tesla’s Autopilot system played a ‘major role’ in a 2016 crash. One person was killed when a 2015 Tesla Model S collided with semi-truck on U.S. Highway 27A. The Tesla’s Traffic-Aware Cruise Control and...

Headline over at tech crunch

There was an interesting article posted on Seeking Alpha today arguing that cameras will win the "LIDAR vs cameras" debate for autonomous vehicles - but not in the way they're currently used: Tesla: Cameras Might Win The Autonomous Race After All - Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) | Seeking Alpha In...

[vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=ytInsBB1lIQ” video_title=”1″]Lawmakers are showing an interest in the potential for autonomous vehicles, as the House passed this week a bipartisan driverless car bill while the Senate is preparing its own version of a self-driving...

The House has unanimously given a GO to measure which could see fully autonomous vehicles on U.S. roads without restrictions. Obvious regulations on licensing registration will vary state to state but there will be far fewer limits, if any, on the number of driverless cars a manufacturer can...

There are numerous threads about whether or not Tesla can deliver on the promise of FSD on cars sold with that option, and while there are occasionally posts about what they might do if they can't deliver I have been unable to find a thread specifically for speculating about that. If there is...

Great news for Autonomous Vehicles today. U.S. House of Representatives passes new bipartisan self-driving car bill

Daylight running lights are a legal requirement in many territories. Here's an idea: Replace some of the visible wavelength running light LEDs with a few Infra Red ones (if the headlight glass housing blocks I. R. then mount the I.R. LEDs differently.) I R LEDs could be set to flash a unique...

I noticed something interesting today. I've known that cars have shown in other lanes when you perform an auto lane change for some time. However, I was on a long stretch of local road driving this morning with TACC on and I realized that they also show when you just use your lane change...

It's true that Summon is still in beta and owners are responsible if an accident happens. Would someone care to speculate how 2017 AP2 Model X decided to crash into a garage door during a summon. When the owner was in front of the car, the car seemed to detect that and stopped just fine. When...

To me, this would be the holy-grail of autonomous driving: being chauffeured in the back seat so that I can use the countless hours spent commuting/traveling long-distances by pulling out a tray table and getting work done on my laptop or taking a nap while being whisked to my destination...

Is there a thread anywhere that tracks the relative functionality currently in place for each hardware suite? I currently have AP 1.0 and will be looking to upgrade to a new MX, but am concerned that the AP 2.0 functionally is still trailing behind AP 1.0. And of course, now we have AP 2.5 to...

Sometimes when driving slowly, the car in front gets colored blue in Tesla AP1 Dashboard when Autopilot is on. What does that mean? I didn't figure it out. Also, it is not deterministic when it gets blue. Sometimes, the same car remains white when stopping in front, sometimes it gets blue. Any...

Interesting article I haven't seen elsewhere... looks like it needs physical access or wifi access. Some discussion of OBD access, which I believe Tesla doesn't allow fully? Hackable flaw in connected cars is ‘unpatchable’, warn researchers

Excuse my ignorance on this subject but I couldn't help but wonder about the current state of autopilot for both Hw1 and Hw2. When it comes to the mobileye hardware and Tesla vision hardware, does Tesla have the ability to continue to develop software for Hw1 vehicles or do they run the risk...

Anyone else thing TACC should be unbundled from Autopilot? I didn't purchase Autopilot because I didn't think I would use it and I felt it really wasn't ready for prime time. But I would (if I could) purchase TACC because I do use cruise control and it would be a welcome addition. I would...

I have been wondering about this since I got 17.26.96 or what it was called, because of the excessive swerving in any minor undulation or crest. Even when myself can see the lanes clear, the car does not. Enough speculations, I tried. Second picture, 1830, did not work. Gave only a weak and...

new update today, I believe this is the one I witnessed at the model 3 launch with much faster and improved car recognition on the display... I'll link the thread in bit

Hackers are the real obstacle for self-driving vehicles TL;DR expect to be holding the wheel for a good while yet. ;)

Has anyone at Tesla hinted at providing 360 surround-view (aka bird's eye) view of the car for things like parking backing out of garage, etc? The HW2 Nvidia board would appear to have features to help even. One use for all the cameras around the car unless I'm missing something (like they are...

I was talking with a friend of mine recently about the future of "full self-driving" capability of Tesla cars (though the same applies to other manufacturers). He hates technology. And so it follows, he absolutely hates the idea of a computer being in control of the car. (Never mind that he...

So many buyers of Tesla models, particularly 3, are opting out of the fully integrated autopilot software option. Mind you it includes pre installation of full autonomous features operational at some future point. But not yet. These car buyers are saying they'll pass. Maybe that's wise based...