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I didn’t follow very closely who started to steer the “one more thing” expectation for the truck event.
But I would suspect there are trolls trying to setup a disappointment for the event, by pushing unrealistic expectations.
My take is, there is no “one more thing”, no normal looking truck, no panel van, no other derivatives of the same platform.(except concept drawings maybe)
But, one feature could become the highlight of the day, in Elon’s Air Force event speech, he used the phrase “it’s literally bulletproof” to describe the pickup, I think he really means the truck will be bulletproof.
Fireside Chat: Lt Gen Thompson & Elon Musk
We know the semi has bulletproof windshield so Tesla is already researching those glasses. Plus we are almost certain the windshield of pickup span all the way from roof top to front bumper, means it could(or have to) become a structural component, which need to use very strong glass. Btw, it’s perfectly flat, probably the best shape for thick ballistic glass without distorting the view.
For doors and other body panels, they could be fitted with titanium plate similar to the under body panel in Model S, all even directly made of titanium panels(in that case the base color of the truck would be naked titanium,).
So my “one more thing” is, Tesla will announce the expected Protection Level Rating of the truck, which may not be as good as an APC, but enough to survive a zombie apocalypse.
Even the civilized Model X has the bio defense mode, is it really too much to ask for a bulletproof truck?
Dojo was mentioned once or twice before but without much detail other than that they would use it to train from video (rather than only images - as it takes so much power to do just images, you can imagine how much more performance is needed for video).
Stumbled upon? Ummmm
Thank you for posting, a must watch! I figure its reach on Tencent must be impressive.
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I agree that many MIC products are well built, however some are not and the Chinese consumers make that determination. Of course, there's some status purchases just as in any country.
That's not a virtual Lidar, its an occupancy grid map using an RNN out their perception CNN's output of road edges. Again standard deep learning procedure.
There's absolutely no proof of this, confirmed by verygreen/greentheonly.
Its Game, Set, Match if you are using standard deep learning 101 architectures and techniques? But the companies like Google's Waymo/DeepMind who are actually inventing new NN techniques and architectures to tackle the problem is actually 5 years behind. Am i right?
In the short time I have used it, I can say it’s the best drive mode, probably the safest too since it’s default is to come to a complete stop, not 5mph drive into stuff like creep, or the quick gas/brake/gas/brake when you are in “normal” at parking speeds. Where did you get the info that the parking brake is being used? When you put the car in park you can hear it engage, I heard nothing like that using hold.
He's talking about packing cells together more closely and only using the bottom of the cell for cooling. If they are using a more stable NMC chemistry, and using larger battery packs and stressing them less, cooling loads won't be as high and they can get away with this change. My interpretation anyway.
Thanks for the link. Does anyone know why the article says there were 6 battery replacements? Tesloop's original Model S (eHawk) had two replacements, but back in 2018 they said all their Model Xs were on original batteries and drive units. I know one Model X (Rex or Deuxy) subsequently got a new drive unit, but I never heard of other battery replacements. Now, suddenly, they've had 6? That seems unlikely, but if true is a good marker of the path toward the million mile battery.
