Tesla analyst Pierre Ferragu of New Street Research is not impressed with Consumer Reports’ test that apparently “tricked” a Model Y into driving itself without anyone in the passenger seat. Earlier this week, Consumer Reports claims that it made a Model Y drive itself by “tricking” it with a series of weights, contraptions, and loopholes that everyday…
Tesla’s request for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve a millimeter-wave sensor for child protection and anti-theft measures has been granted. Along with five other companies, Tesla received “a grant of waivers” on April 14, 2021, that would allow the installation of radar sensors in the 57-64 GHz frequency band in passenger motor vehicles.…
Consumer Reports claims to have shown that Tesla Autopilot can be “easily tricked” into driving without anyone in the driver’s seat. The test process was extremely bizarre and required certain items that most drivers would never have in their vehicles. CR released a report on April 22nd entitled, “CR Engineers Show a Tesla Will Drive…
Elon Musk claims that Tesla with Autopilot engaged approaches 10 times lower chance of accident than the average car. Here’s the data he is basing this claim on. Since 2018, Tesla has been trying to create a benchmark for its improvement in Autopilot safety by releasing a quarterly report that compares the number of miles…
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite is one of the most robust on the market. The semi-autonomous driving functionality has caught the eye of nearly everyone who has read about the all-electric vehicle manufacturer in the past few years. With many competitors on the market today, there will always be a few skeptics, and Aurora CEO Chris…
Tesla has settled a lawsuit with Cao Guangzhi, a former engineer with the company accused of stealing the Autopilot source code in 2019 after leaving the company. A statement prepared by Guangzhi’s lawyer that was shared to Reuters indicated that a settlement had occurred and that Cao “had never accessed any Tesla data after he left Tesla,…
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving subscriptions are definitely coming in May 2021. This was related and reiterated by CEO Elon Musk in recent comments on Twitter. While discussing Tesla’s AI prowess and the company’s efforts to improve its vision stack, Musk noted that the highly-anticipated FSD Button would hopefully be rolled out next month. When prodded about FSD…
Ford released a new video of its BlueCruise hands-free driving system earlier today. It didn’t come with a straightforward approach, either as the company’s CEO, Jim Farley, took a jab at Tesla in a Tweet that highlighted the new driver assistance feature. Ford’s BlueCruise is the legacy automaker’s crack at a semi-autonomous driving functionality that aims…
Tesla’s use of artificial intelligence in its electric vehicles is about to get better in a new software update, according to CEO Elon Musk, and he is not just talking about the automaker’s Full Self-Driving effort. While Tesla is famous for its investment in artificial intelligence for self-driving technology, the automaker has also been using its…
A recent set of updates from Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla is looking to eventually update its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving suite to a camera-based system. This means that in the future, Tesla’s all-electric vehicles would be navigating themselves and performing driver-assist functions without the use of components such as radar. Musk’s update came…