Elon Musk made his nth promise on autonomous driving and Tesla will pay him expensive (already stockings)

If something has characterized the direction of Elon Musk in front of Tesla, they have been his grandiloquent phrases and his promises of doubtful credibility. One of them is a classic that can now cost Caro: all its cars can be updated to their most advanced autonomous driving system for free. Musk already admits that they will have to take a hard cost. A key business. Autonomous driving is, for Tesla, one of its key businesses for the future. The company already said in 2023 that it could make money exclusively with the software of its cars and that they could make their cars profitable without winning a single euro with the vehicle itself. Since then, Elon Musk has been selling the benefits of its autonomous driving systems. Similarly, the company has been sliding that it is In conversations with third parties to act as suppliers of your driving aid systems. And to this we must add the promise that from next year we will see the Tesla Robotaxis in the streets. The FSD. That autonomous driving has a name and surname within Tesla. Full Self Driving (FSD). A driving aid system that, for the moment, continues to force the driver to be at all times aware of what happens around him in case he has to intervene. The name has been a reason for controversy, DECEÑIOUS ADVERTISING FACKING Because he implies that he has more capacities than he really offers. In fact, Ford with Bluecruisewhich allows you to remove your hands from the steering wheel although keeping your attention, and Mercedes, which does not force you to maintain attention In very specific circumstancesThey seem to have come further. In the specific case of Tesla, their cars are sold with Three well -differentiated packages. Basic assists includes adaptive cruise control and lane change. The improved autopilot package adds functions such as automatic lane or parking (and exit) without human intervention. Finally, the FSD or “Total Autonomous Driving”, as Tesla sells in Spain, adds the stops and torn in the traffic lights and, “in the future, self -admitted in urban areas. The eternal promise. The FSD has been one of Tesla’s great promises in recent years. The price of buying a car with active FSD or “total autonomous driving”, as sold in Spain, adds 7,500 euros to the price of the car. Another option is to activate it in the coming years when we consider it appropriate from our website. That future option is what seems to be complicating Tesla. On its website the following is read in the frequently asked questions section: As of April 2019, all new Tesla vehicles come standard with the autopilot*, which includes cruise control adapted to traffic and autogyro. Some exceptions can be applied. For vehicles without the autopilot software, but equipped with the necessary hardware, you can buy the autopilot, the improved autopilot or the total autonomous driving capacity at any time through its Tesla account; The necessary autopilot software will be added to your car.A necessary update . Since 2016, Tesla has been promising that all their cars would have the necessary hardware to support the functions of total autonomous driving, including those of“Level 5” . That is, the car can move without human intervention, as if it were a robotaxi. In 2019, however, the company had to confirm that the autonomous driving system would require greater computer power. SoThey presented the HW3 a computer designed to allow these functions. Given the promise that cars sold since 2016 could have these functions, cars already sold for free to interested drivers were updated. In 2023, again Tesla has to expand the computer capabilities of its cars with a new hardware. The long -awaited HW4 arrives That now, yes (it is supposed) it will allow a completely autonomous driving. But from the company the message is launched that drivers whose cars use the HW3 should not worry because the new software will refine to make it compatible with their vehicles.They are not valid . A year later, in October 2024, Elon Musk begins to slide the idea that cars with HW3 will not be able to count on the latest advances in autonomous driving and, therefore, they will not be able to enjoy their FSD program. We are not 100% safe. HW4 has HW3’s capacity several times. It is easier to make things work in HW4 and a lot of effort is needed to put that in HW3. There is the possibility that HW3 does not reach the level of security that allows non -supervised FSD. Words pick them upElectrek where, in addition, they explain the difficulties that the company would have to update its cars at the technical level. According to the medium, it is almost impossible due to the limitations of the hardware The Tesla Model and should be the change of paradigm in Europe. It has been destroyed as a best selling car by Dacia SanderoFree . At that time, Elon Musk already warned that if the company did not find a way to make the HW3 compatible with the total autonomous driving would launch a free update campaign of the hardware of the vehicle for all those who had acquired the car with these functions. Months after these first statements, Elon Musk has confirmed that all cars that were bought with the FSD package already active will be updated for free. “We will have to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was bought,” Musk said At the last meeting with shareholders.Half fulfilling . In his statements, Musk made it clear that they would only be the cars that acquired the FSD package when buying it the cars that will receive this update for free. This leaves out, therefore, those who did not do first and chose to subscribe to the functions of driving aid. Therefore, Tesla would be halfway. In their day they promised that all cars bought from 2016 would be completely autonomous. This is only possible, … Read more

NVIDIA postpones Tesla’s great promise to the next decade

Autonomous driving. That eternal promise that is supposedly worth billions of euros, that we are always brushing with our fingers and that, in the end, never seems to arrive. The last to express their doubts have been those responsible for NVIDIA. “It’s super difficult”. The words are from Ali Kani, head of NVIDIA’s automotive division, who spoke with the magazine Coach about the future of autonomous driving. “It’s something typical of the next decade. We are not close. It is super difficult,” Kani assured journalists. The question referred to “truly autonomous cars” of which the head of NVIDIA. It is clear that “we will not see them in this decade.” Kani pointed out that cars currently do not have the power or the technology necessary to implement autonomous driving in the short term. A new way of working. Regarding how they work at NVIDIA, Kani assures that what they are doing “is very different” from what they did a year ago. He assures that they are “working on large language models such as GPT Chat with video.” And he emphasizes: “no one was doing this three years ago.” The problems. Basically, we do not have enough computing power to guarantee autonomous driving in the short term. “This type of model needs a lot more computing power, a lot more memory bandwidth. You need more LiDAR sensors and radars, redundant algorithms to make sure it’s safe. All of that has to work in parallel, which means more computing.” Furthermore, NVIDIA is clear that it is not just a matter of raw power. It’s also about giving a good image to potential customers and showing that you can travel safely. “The industry needs to go slow with this. If one company makes a mistake, the entire industry is set back a few years. So we have to act in the most responsible and don’t take any shortcuts. You can only do it when you have proven that it is really safe,” concludes Kani. A different approach. If we take what NVIDIA claims as a reference, the company works in a completely different way than Tesla tries to do. Technology makes it clear that radars and LiDAR sensors continue to be essential, components that Tesla wants to eliminate to trust everything to the use of cameras and recorded images. What Elon Musk’s company defends is that It has a huge fleet of vehicles already on the streets and that everything recorded by them allows their algorithms to learn faster than the competition. They hope, therefore, to spend less money and time to go beyond where Waymo or Cruise have gone. In 2027. The perspectives that come to us from NVIDIA are also very different from the promises that Elon Musk has made about his Tesla Cybercab. According to the owner of Tesla, his fully autonomous cars should be on the streets in 2027 despite his claims “Be unoptimistic with deadlines”. Then he said that next year he will be manufacturing his robotaxis. A promise that, as on so many other occasions, doesn’t seem too realistic. However, Musk is confident in his approach to Donald Trump to open the hand with the tests of autonomous vehicles and deploy their services more quickly. The eternal promise. The truth is, whether we’re talking about Tesla or any other company, the promise of the fully autonomous car always seems to be about to arrive. And it never seems to end. Waymo keeps going but Cruise has fallen by the wayside and has joined a long list of failed attempts. The truth is that Cruise has managed to launch the service in limited spaces but it is also true that the behavior of its cars it was easy to manipulate and who has lived in a eternal controversy of accidents and encounters with San Francisco emergency services. During all this time, Tesla has not managed to make its Autopilot a truly autonomous service and requires human attention. Ford’s BlueCruise also needs it, although in this case can be driven without hands on previously mapped roads. Mercedes does not require it but your system is limited to very specific circumstances. And a bag of millions. Despite everything, there are billions at stake with autonomous driving. Or that’s what they promise us. One of the most optimistic forecasts is that of Tasha Keeney, director of investment analysis at ARK, who quantified in one of his analyzes collected by The Wall Street Journal The value of a robotaxis service like the one Tesla is looking for could account for 60% of the company’s income in 2029 and raise its valuation to $800 billion. Photo | tesla In Xataka | Tesla promises a robotaxi without a steering wheel in 2026. General Motors already tried it with Origin and canceled its project this same year

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