Clickbait or no, the article raises a couple of valid questions. Sensible and sober people who research such things for investment purposes will tell you that when it comes to SDV, Tesla isn't out in front. The leaders are Waymo (Alphabet/Google), Cruise (GM), and Argo (VW/Ford).
Tesla is a lower echelon player, maybe in the same league as Bosch, Volvo, and Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi. Tesla also recently REMOVED some of the sensors that the autopilot system uses. I don't see how that's going to make it more accurate. The questions: 1. Why does Tesla call their most expensive autopilot "full self driving" when it isn't? 2. Why is autopilot so careless about making sure that the driver stays on duty and attentive? I'm not an insider, but I suspect that that the answer to both of these questions is "because Elon Musk wants it that way." The tech isn't ready, but Musk doesn't want to wait. He can't help it. He's a techbro. It's in his deep blue billionaire blood. Musk seems to think that he's above the law, bigger and stronger than the NHTSA bulldozer. He's putting himself, and Tesla, right in front of it. It'll be interesting to see who wins. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. A man who could afford fifty dollar boots had a pair that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap [ten dollar] boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. -- Terry Pratchett, "Men at Arms: The Play" = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
