Is anyone really surprised?
For years, Elon Musk has made bold claims about how far Tesla is to attaining Level 5 autonomy in its cars. In July last year, he said that Tesla was very close to doing just that, a claim that was quickly dismissed by industry experts. With this in mind, Tesla s latest announcement comes as little surprise. The company has apparently informed a regulator in California that it may not achieve full self-driving technology before the end of 2021. This information was contained in a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) memo. Tesla Tesla
Clearly, Musk s overconfidence has caught up with him once again because it was earlier this year that he claimed to be highly confident the car will be able to drive itself with reliability in excess of human this year. Considering the teething issues that Tesla has had in rolling out its full self-driving software (which isn t actually fully self-driving at all), it s obvious why the company wouldn
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk s public statements about the state of his automaker s Autopilot assistive driving technology overestimate the system s capabilities, according to documents released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
Legal non-profit PlainSite obtained the DMV documents via the California Public Records Act and they include a summary, written by Miguel Acosta, chief of the DMV s Autonomous Vehicles Branch, of a March 9, 2021 meeting between DMV officials and Tesla personnel.
Acosta wrote that DMV asked CJ [CJ Moore, director of Autopilot software at Tesla] to address, from an engineering perspective, Elon’s messaging about L5 capability by the end of the year.
Despite tall claims made by Elon Musk over Twitter about the full self-driving technology, electric car-maker Tesla has privately admitted that such claims do not match up with the engineering reality. Tesla vehicles are far from reaching a level of autonomy often described by Musk on social media, according to an internal memo obtained by transparency portal Plainsite. Elon s tweet does not match engineering reality per CJ. Tesla is at Level 2 currently, Tesla s director of Autopilot software CJ Moore told the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Level 2 technology refers to a semi-automated driving system, which requires supervision by a human driver.
Tesla admits Musk’s ‘full self-driving’ claim not feasible yet
Tesla vehicles are far from reaching a level of autonomy often described by Musk on social media, according to an internal memo obtained by transparency portal Plainsite.
By IANS| Posted by Minhaj Adnan | Updated: 8th May 2021 1:50 pm IST
San Francisco: Despite tall claims made by Elon Musk over Twitter about the full self-driving technology, electric car-maker Tesla has privately admitted that such claims do not match up with the engineering reality.
Tesla vehicles are far from reaching a level of autonomy often described by Musk on social media, according to an internal memo obtained by transparency portal Plainsite.
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