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...The company has been criticised for the marketing of the technology, with the name Autopilot suggesting greater control than the vehicle has....
...During this week’s Twitter Spaces session, Musk enthused about Tesla’s homegrown supercomputer, Dojo, which the electric-car maker uses to train its Autopilot self-driving system....
...Tesla has been under investigation by the NHTSA for more than two years over whether the Autopilot system ensures drivers pay attention to the road when the vehicle is steering itself....
...One of the union leaders who said she was fired, Arian Berek, worked as a data analyst and “trainer” for Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system....
...Autopilot was turned on in 11 instances where a Tesla drove into a road crash scene, causing a total of 17 injuries and one death....
...Karpathy wrote on Twitter that during his time at Tesla, “Autopilot graduated from lane keeping to city streets, and I look forward to seeing the exceptionally strong Autopilot team continue that momentum...
...A simplified model used in the report, based on countries progressing in “autopilot mode”, suggests these demographic shifts will leave nearly half of all rated sovereigns as speculative grade — although...
...Tesla’s autopilot system collects enormous amounts of visual and geolocation data that is used to improve its corporate “hive mind”....
...centered around claims of racial discrimination and poor working conditions at Tesla’s Fremont factory, as well as its handling of the NHTSA investigation after multiple deaths and injuries were linked to its autopilot...
...Tesla was bounced partly because of claims of racial discrimination and poor working conditions, as well as its response to autopilot-linked fatalities....
...The people whose lives are saved with autopilot or autonomy don’t know that their lives were saved....
...They apparently switch on the Autopilot function when they want to move to the back seat or take a nap....
...and methods used to monitor, assist and enforce the driver’s engagement with driving while Autopilot is in use,” the NHTSA said....
...The company also uses a combination of real and synthetic data to tackle instances where Autopilot fails in simulations....
...And just in case you’ve missed it, here’s a fantastic New York Times hit on Tesla’s Autopilot struggles over the past half decade that was also just published....
...And then, perhaps there will be some other carmakers who may wish to licence Tesla autopilot. And we'd be very open to that. Thank you....
...report that Tesla drivers were able to play video games on their central screens while their vehicles are in motion, and in August it began a wider review of Tesla’s driver-assistance technology, known as Autopilot...
...In the letter, they accused the carmaker of overstating what its vehicles are capable of, thereby endangering drivers who rely on automated features such as Autopilot to navigate roads....
...“I had the autopilot on,” Wood recalled. “I was like, ‘Check this out, Grandpa! The car is driving itself.’ It was . . . probably the first self-driving car to go through Bangor.”...
...The Tesla chief executive and “founder” seems to use the rage-as-a-service platform as an informal media relations department: updating customers on the development its Autopilot feature, cracking hilarious...
...This month, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration appointed Missy Cummings, a vocal critic of Tesla’s autopilot software, as a senior adviser....
...It will be 5’8 and a slinky 125 lbs, and it has Tesla Autopilot’s system built into it, making use of “all the same tools we have in the car”. What could possibly go wrong....
...This week, US road traffic investigators said they were probing crashes between electric cars driven by its Autopilot system and emergency vehicles....
...Officials say drivers can accidentally engage the autopilot, triggering acceleration. Bad news for the US electric car maker creates opportunities for fast-growing local rivals....
...Since the quarter end, Tesla recalled virtually all the cars it has ever produced in China to fix a problem with its autopilot software, though it was able to do so with an over-the-air software update....
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