It's not level 5 if you actually include the full quote from Elon Musk: Full Self-Driving Teslas This Year, "Unequivocal" Tesla Autopilot Improves Safety - CleanTechnica
The bollocks he posts on Twitter / X is just him trying to drum up investment. What is on the Tesla website is just Autosteer on City streets which in the US at least they seem to have made some real progress with.
Tricky one. In theory once they have this all to a level they are happy with, they might only have to run it a few times through their training computers to handle the UK and RHD. As you say though, the further out this is the less likely it is to happen for HW3 cars. They might just do it to avoid more lawsuits, don’t know. I’m not expecting any form of Tesla FSD in this country for 4 - 6 years.
You’ll know this is the case when the car tells you it is going to do the needful.Of course not.
I'm not sure what you meant to say here, but hardware and software always have to work together. Bloated software can only run on a relatively fast machine. The Microsoft/Intel lockstep collusion demonstrates this. Elon's admission that the current hardware is woefully inadequate demonstrates this as well.
What he described in 2019 is Level 5.
I have no skin in this game but that is not a description of level 5. It makes no reference to who is in control/responsible for the vehicle.
The reason Tesla has gone down the end-to-end neural network route is for precisely this reason. They don't need to teach it what all these bits and pieces are, they're implicitly included in the training. So in general it'll do the same as a human does, which is to improvise carefully. None of the training data from the US will be used here.
I could make a case that those words could be interpretted as a L4 claim, the words do say "..pick you up.." which does imply you're not in the car at the beginniong. I think it also goes on to say it goes and parks itself, again implying without you in it, L3 requires the ability to hand back quickly so isn't open to driverless, and L5 requires "in all conditions" which is a bit of a stretch,
I have a hunch they'll just double down on the Mercedes approach to start limited and constrained and slowly widen the envelope whilst maybe allowing some heavily goverened, manufacturer owned test vehicles with plenty of fall back ie the Waymo type model. I think its the only responsible way to go too. The idea of sanctioning a million+ cars to have an unattentive driver all of a sudden is reckless and not in keeping with the generally cautious nature of regulatory bodies.
Because as I already showed you his next sentence in the same quote was "However, people sometimes will extrapolate that to mean now it works with 100 percent certainty, requires no observation, perfectly. This is not the case.” - this is precisely him saying it won't be Level 5.
He's made a ton of claims/predictions like this. See below.
Yep, And, when some moderator like Robotaxi? Really?? gets wind of stuff like this, he wants to shut down a discussion.
