Tesla’s autonomy event: Impressive progress with an unrealistic timeline
By Timothy B. Lee
An old software joke explains Elon Musk's implausible autonomy timeline.
On Monday, Tesla held a major event to show off the company's impressive progress toward full self-driving technology. The company demonstrated a new neural network computer that seems to be competitive with industry leader Nvidia. And Tesla explained how it leverages its vast fleet of customer-owned vehicles to collect data that helps the company train its neural networks.
"At this point, the cars will be 'feature complete,' in Musk's terminology, but will still need a human driver to monitor the vehicle and intervene in the case of a malfunction."
Humans cannot react fast enough to intervene in time. Such statements are fake news, lies told to comfort the public.
Don't stop where the ink does.
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