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Several things:
Tesla continues to have an ironic sense of humor with song choices (a song about depression??).
Cameras apparently are still gray scale, not color.
There were at least two examples of not quite correct turns where the car essentially turned into the wrong lane, or partially into the wrong lane.
It is interesting that they are processing all of this on a single Titan GPU - not what I was expecting. I was expecting them to use nVidia's DrivePX platform or something with even more horsepower than a single Titan. Would be interesting to get more specs. Teardown time!
It was interesting that the announcement got delayed so that they could actually complete this demo. Not just compile video, but actually do the demo (according to Elon's tweet). Man, that's cutting it really close, Elon. You announce a product unveiling before you've even run the demo once????
Awesome video, I can't wait to try it, very exciting!
But wow, that soundtrack... Interesting choice. I would have expected something more upbeat with a more positive outlook. On the other hand, this does perfectly express the frustration they must be experiencing in the face of such strong public reactions to the perceived safety issues.
'Grayscale' sensors have higher resolution, dynamic range and light sensitivity. We don't know if one of the front facing camera is color.
Tesla Vision has been in the works for over a year - back when Titan was one of the fastest GPUs with reasonable TDP and still is many times faster than 2018 Mobileye 4. Besides, EM said that they can run on other processors, including AMD. As I said earlier Tesla may eventually design their own chip with AMD's cooperation similar how AMD does it for Microsoft or Sony for their consoles.
EDIT: Color vs. Monochrome Sensors
where can I find the name of the soundtrack?
Is it confirmed it is the titan GPU and not the new announced Nvidia system?
It's interesting that Musk mentioned AMD in his presentation - maybe they are working on their own chip with cooperation with AMD?
Yes it is. What's interesting is that Tesla Vision is running 12 tera operations/s - as fast as (distant) future Mobileye 5. However, just announced nvidia Drive PX 2 (Parker) is supposed to be twice as fast. Of course benchmarks and reality can diverge greatly.
It's interesting that Musk mentioned AMD in his presentation - maybe they are working on their own chip with cooperation with AMD?
What presentation? Link? I guess I'm a bit behind.
Concerning there being another board (Drive PX 2) being twice as fast as what Tesla is using...
There is a big difference between the commercial world of graphics cards and the choice of hardware in an embedded system like the Tesla autopilot. In the commercial world, everyone is pushing the envelope, and the goal is always to be faster, bigger, cheaper. It's simply Moore's law, you need to be able to be able to one up your competitor. And, there will always be use cases where that additional processing power is needed, and other use cases where 10x, 100x or 1000x that level of processing power is needed.
For the Autopilot application, there is only a single "use case". The hardware that is installed in the vehicle needs to be able to run software that is capable of self driving the car. Period. Tesla would not have picked the hardware platform they did, and stated that it can do Level 5 autonomy, unless they were sure that the hardware could get the job done. Software will lag, but thats always the case.
The important take away WRT to the computing power required is that basically "enough is enough". If Tesla cars have the required hardware to eventually (with additional software improvements) "solve" the self driving problem, it doesn't matter whether some other company builds a processing platform that is 2x faster, 10x faster or even 100x faster. Simply doesn't matter. If the hardware and software solution that Tesla deploys can provide Level 5 autonomy, they are done. No need to hardware upgrade anything in the future.
Having said that, if in 4 years the just announced hardware can be shrunk down to 1/4 the size and 10x the speed at 1/2 the cost, then Tesla would roll out a cheaper platform that would essentially be "doing the exact same thing". But once the basic problem (self driving) has been solved, all you are doing from that point forward is decreasing the cost, and improving (via software) the performance, and the safety of the system.
RT
The soundtrack is a tip of the hat to his exwife's participation in Westworld.