Tesla's Musk seeks 'hardcore engineers' to speed self-guiding car project

[S'toon]

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is using Twitter to find software engineers in an attempt to accelerate the company's project to build self-guiding cars.

In the tweets Mr Musk appealed for "hardcore software engineers" to work on the firm's Autopilot software.
Mr Musk says he will be interviewing candidates personally.


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'Ramping up'Successful engineering candidates will report directly to Mr Musk as the project is "super high priority".
Coders need not have prior experience with cars, he tweeted.
The Autopilot software is designed to let the Model S and Model X Tesla cars automatically steer, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic.
"Ramping up the Autopilot software team at Tesla to achieve generalised full autonomy," he said.

Full article at:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34876857

 

[Ktowntslafan]

Pretty funny sequence of Tweets from Elon...and some of the responses are hilarious:

Tweets with replies by Elon Musk (@elonmusk) | Twitter

 

[Discoducky]

Ah, reminds me of the good ol' days in Sept 2013 : https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/380454034659753984

 

[GSP]

Hardcore engineers are required, but this project also needs a few outstanding scientists doing basic research (not just applied research) on the topic.

Just my opinion, of course.

Best wishes to the entire Tesla team,

GSP

 

[jerry33]

Putting more programmers on a project that is already late just makes it twice as late.

 

[strangethingintheland]

Putting more programmers on a project that is already late just makes it twice as late.

For those interested:
The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a classic: thoughtful and lightly humorous take on software engineering.

 

[robby]

For those interested:
The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a classic: thoughtful and lightly humorous take on software engineering.

Brooks tells a story of a team that had each member buy a copy for their boss so he could read it faster.