Tesla, Apple aren't self-driving leaders, study argues

[S'toon]

Overall, it is easy to see how Navigant’s study ended up placing Tesla at the lowest spot in its rankings. The Silicon Valley-based electric car maker and energy firm, after all, is still catching up to the refinement and features of its Autopilot 1.0 software from years ago. Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving is also relatively different from Waymo and Cruise’s strategy, using Shadow Mode and its drivers to collect billions of miles real-world driving data from its fleet. While GM and Google might have refined their tech to a degree beyond what Tesla has accomplished so far with Enhanced Autopilot, both companies’ vehicles have mastered pre-programmed routes but seemingly without scale. Cruise and Waymo’s autonomous cars are only effective on areas that have been heavily tested and uploaded to their computers.

Tesla, however, is doing something far more ambitious and arguably riskier on many levels. Instead of mastering self-driving that’s isolated to specific regions, the company is aiming to roll out autonomous features that would work on a global scale through AI-based Tesla Vision technology. Looking at it from this perspective, Waymo and Cruise will probably take far longer than Tesla when it comes to rolling out their self-driving vehicles on a larger scale.

Tesla placed dead last in self-driving race by Navigant, GM and Waymo top list

 

[R.S]

Tesla placed dead last in self-driving race by Navigant, GM and Waymo top list

Every autonomous driving technology is AI based. Every self driving car has cameras.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Tesla has no LIDAR on their current cars. And that at least in 2016 their autonomous public road testing was almost non existent and the results weren't good. Will be interesting to see what the 2017 disengagement reports will bring.

Of course a lot on this list is speculation, but from the results, I wouldn't call Tesla a leader, but I don't think they are last, either.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

To who? Who else is putting lidar on their mass-consumer cars?

This is the nub of it.

If you define leader by "have built a system most capable of autonomous operation" then Tesla is way behind.
If you define leader by "has earned the most revenue from its autonomous system development" then it's different.
If you define leader by "will make the most profit from its autonomous systems" then nobody knows.

 

[McRat]

We will see. What do we know at this time?
Ford has very little, but somehow is top ranked? Huh?
GM has hard mapped freeways w/hands-free, and V2V systems on the road in private ownership today.
They have demonstrated their AV ability in the crappiest situation in the US, San Francisco:
The drivers are stupid, in a hurry, on the phone, pedestrians do not know what crosswalks are used for, bicyclists appear to be legally blind or highly inebriated, civic planners were not used for roads, only high congestion stops SF from being renamed the Killing Fields.

Euros? Not much in North America.
Asians? Not much in North America.
Tesla? Demonstrated AV but is doubtful it was not hard mapped. Not much filed with California's DMV.
Waymo? Likes to run on supercomputers, closed courses, and suburban housing tracts. Started first, but doesn't seem to be aimed at mass-market. Has had at least 2 'at-fault' accidents in California alone.
Uber? Demonstrates why AVs should not be public roads yet.
Ford? They are hiding it very well or it isn't very far along.