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The driver who crashed says Tesla’s sales staff promoted the system as “self-driving.” Tesla said on Wednesday that one of its cars had crashed in Beijing while in “autopilot” mode, with the driver contending sales staff sold the function as “self-driving,” overplaying its actual capabilities. Tesla said it had reviewed data to confirm the car was in autopilot mode, a system
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With the recent announcement that Tesla and MobilEye are ending their long time business relationship, Elon Musk gave some details on what to expect from Tesla’s Autopilot and fully autonomous driving development. On Tesla’s proprietary mapping initiatives. “What we’ve said thus far is that there’s need to have much higher definition maps than currently exists anywhere in the world in order
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For autonomous vehicles to function, they need to be able to react to changes in their surrounding environment. That’s where a sophisticated high definition solid-state LiDAR (laser sensor system) comes into play, and why Israel-based Innoviz Technologies announced Monday it had secured a $9 million Series A investment led by Magma Venture Partners and Vertex Venture Capital. Other investors included Zohar Zisapel, Amiti
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Tesla made it into the history books last month, and for all the wrong reasons. It earned the dubious distinction of being the first automaker to record a fatality in a semi-autonomous car. A Tesla owner was killed when the car’s Autopilot system could not detect that a semi-truck was blocking the road and ran the car right into it.
Read moreMobileye NV said it would no longer provide its computer chips and algorithms to Tesla after a current contract ends due to disagreements about how the technology was deployed. Mobileye provides core technology for Tesla’s Autopilot system, which allows cars to drive themselves in limited conditions. It isn’t clear when Mobileye’s current contract with Tesla ends; a next generation Mobileye
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