The Tesla Autonomy Day left me a little bit perplexed. Here Elon says: “The general principle here is that any part of this could fail and the car will keep driving. So you could have cameras fail, you could have power circuits fail, you could have one of the Tesla FSD computer chips fail and […]
Self Driving Blog Posts
Elevating Development of Elevators
Current Elevator Problems Crowded Wait to get on Something disgusting in the corner Wait for other people to get off Some kid hits the buttons for every floor Limited personal capacity Slow Don’t you love pressing the elevator button and the door immediately opens? What if there was an elevator that knew you were coming […]
A Self Driving Future
Imagine a future where transportation is quick and even quicker when you plan ahead. You need a car and one shows up instantly to take you wherever you want to go. On a $40,700 Tesla Model 3 leased today, Tesla will collect $6,289 +$2,500 +($399 * 36) = $23,153 for leasing the car to a […]
Will Tesla use LIDAR?
Tesla is ahead in every aspect of Electric Vehicle development (at least in North America). But despite their lead, many wanted to spread doubt about LIDAR being more viable. Elon flamethows this argument here: Elon Musk: “LIDAR is lame. LIDAR is lame. Lame. hehe” … “They are all going to dump LIDAR is my prediction. […]
August 9th, 2019
Will Tesla Win?
Few (who don’t watch Now you Know or Hyperchange) are savvy enough to really understand what is at stake in terms of becoming the first to solve Level 5 Autonomy. Level 5 Autonomy is when the car can drive itself in any human drive-able condition. Why is Telsa going to win? Well for starters, they […]
Hater’s gonna hate
This article from The Drive does well to draw parallels from industry envy and how leaders suffer from envy in the industries they disrupt. He points out that he loves his car and Tesla is way ahead. He points fingers at all other car dealers and accuses them of not stepping it up. And points […]
Starlink could bridge Tesla Camera + AR/VR to Make Driving 30 cars from home a Reality
Tesla has made and kept many promises. Some they have not kept may be because puzzle pieces were missing. With the addition of Starlink satellites, high bandwidth becomes very achievable especially when they have no load on the system. You have a brand new high capacity network with no user traffic. If Starlink is going […]
May 17th, 2019
Tesla Robo-Taxi Audit
2 days ago, Inside EV’s released the article Is Leasing A Tesla Model 3 A $200,000 Mistake? This article comments on a video from the owner of Tesloop – Haydn Sonnad. Very few authorities hold a candle to Tesloop in this regard because Tesloop is a Tesla-centric taxi service having already operated many years and […]
Will cars drive you home drunk?
Of course, it is illegal to be in a driver’s seat hammered, or at least it should be. But, what if the car was 100x safer to drive than a human even with a pissed drunk at the wheel? If autonomous cars can drive around with nobody in them, I don’t see why it couldn’t […]