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“Goat honks” are just what you would have thought they were. If recent tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk are to be believed, new versions of his electric cars could bleat to alert the next car over. “Definitely coming,” said Musk for the newer Model S, X , Y and 3 vehicles. He told his…
There is no doubt that the passenger vehicle market is transitioning towards electric cars, but the trucking industry’s electrification is probably still in its infancy. With this in mind, US-based energy analysts Wood Mackenzie recently conducted an analysis of the country’s emerging EV truck market, and their findings were both optimistic and conservative, especially when…
Elon Musk, who recently stated on Twitter that he tries to not be included in patents (named on patent filings) was included in Tesla’s latest ones. In an article published by Tesmanian, Elon Musk is included as an inventor of patents relating to autonomous and user-controlled vehicle summon to a specific target. In 2019, Tesla’s development team…
Tesla’s long-term Robotaxi plans include autonomous driving at Level 5 and it definitely sounds like things are progressing very well along. CEO Elon Musk recently commented about the progress of Full Self-Driving on Twitter and some of Tesla’s recently published patent applications have revealed even more details of the machine learning that goes into an…
\n The Dojo is a Neural Network (NN) chip developed by Tesla’s hardware team to increase the learning speed of server-side neural networks. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said Dojo V1.0 will be launched in about a year. \n\n\n\n It was first mentioned during Autonomy Day in 2019. Musk said: \n\n\n\n “We do have a…
With Elon Musk firmly behind the wheel, there’s no question that Tesla has accelerated the transition towards battery electric vehicles. On the security front, Tesla has a strong track record, with the various models being hard to steal, and harder to hack. Not impossible, as McAfee hackers showed when they tricked two Tesla vehicles into…
“It is extremely important to emphasize that Tesla Autopilot is the work of 300 super talented engineers,” Elon Musk tells CleanTechnica How many Tesla engineers does it take to make your car drive itself? This is a question many a Tesla owner has surely wondered from time to time. Like Tesla vehicles and software overall, Autopilot’s advanced driver-assist…
Elon Musk says the rewrite of Tesla’s Autopilot / Full Self-Driving (FSD) will result in “quantum leap” improvements, and the rewrite will be pushed to the fleet in the next “six to ten weeks.” Tesla is going through “a major structural rewrite in the Tesla Autopilot.” As part of the rewrite, CEO Elon Musk says…
For a long time, Tesla’s all-electric approach was like an itch that traditional automakers couldn’t scratch. Now, after it’s fourth consecutive profitable quarter, with its stock hovering around $1,600 per share, Tesla’s EV leadership stands at the vanguard of the industry. The Silicon Valley company is now the world’s most valuable automaker, prepping for a 5-for-1 stock split, and poised to be included in…