AP 2.0 == $8000

[ecarfan]

New Tesla needs new cars sold with the Self-Driving upgrade.
It's those cars that will be used by Tesla to help do the "extensive software validation" needed before they can prove it's safe for the car to drive itself. Until then, the drivers with the Self-Driving hardware will be "driving instructors" for Tesla - teaching the software how to drive safely. Evidently Tesla will be logging the drivers actions and then compare that to what the software detected and would have done - and when there's a discrepancy, Tesla can continue to make improvements to the software until the software is driving at least as well as the human driver.

Tesla does not need people to buy the Full Self Driving option for the car to perform the "validation". Every Tesla built from now on will have the full hardware for autonomous driving and the neessary "Tesla Vision" neural net software to run the validation process. When Full Self Driving is available only the owners who paid for that option will have access to that feature.

 

[bob_p]

You're right, missed that in the announcement - that all cars have the AP 2.0 hardware, and only require activation to be used.

So even if owners don't purchase autopilot or self driving, Tesla will still be using the car for training the software.

Interesting strategy... And gives Tesla a huge head start over every other manufacturer by getting the self driving software training started now, with every new car sold.

 

[Chopr147]

The big auto manufacturers seemed to have just been catching up to Tesla with EV's albeit still far behind though.
Now that horse just sprinted to expand it's lead. Some more conference room fireworks going on

 

[hingisfan]

Don't you have to "opt in" now to share your data? I know in Europe you do, I assume due to privacy laws.

 

[MP3Mike]

Don't you have to "opt in" now to share your data? I know in Europe you do, I assume due to privacy laws.

Not in the US. (There is currently no option to "opt out" either.)

 

[Troy]

You have a water cooled super computer and 3 or 7 more cameras in your vehicle. Of course it's $8k.

That's not exactly correct. Regardless of the configuration, all cars leaving the factory have the same autopilot hardware with 8 cameras even if you don't order autopilot.