Urban Mobility
Recently Tesla announced that all new Tesla vehicles will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver. Eight surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters of range. Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both hard and soft
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Forbes reports Autopilot failed the toughest road test on the Autobahn. A Model S rear-ended a bus. According to the police report cited by the local Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitung, the accident occurred as a bus from Denmark returned into the right lane after a passing maneuver. “This was overlooked by the Tesla driver, or rather, by the Tesla,” writes the SHZ.
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George “Geohot” Hotz launched his self-driving car startup, Comma.ai, a year ago out of his garage at the “Crypto Castle” in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. A year later, he said he’s ready to start shipping. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Hotz announced a self-driving car kit, called Comma One, that he promises will start shipping before
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SHANGHAI—Tesla Motor Inc. has revised the marketing of its Autopilot feature in China, after a Beijing driver who sideswiped a parked car when the system was engaged accused the car maker of overplaying its capabilities. Since the weekend, the company has scaled back its description of Autopilot on its website and in other marketing materials from zi dong jia shi, meaning the
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The driver is still responsible for, and ultimately in control of, the car. What’s more, you always have intuitive access to the information your car is using to inform its actions,” Tesla said in a statement in October when it first released Autopilot. A high ranking official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has said drivers “could
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Tesla Customer recent car crash blamed Tesla for strongly promoting term “zidong jiashi” appears several times on Tesla’s Chinese portal, which is most literally translated to mean “self-driving” similar to airplane autopilot. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has removed the word “autopilot” and “self-driving” from its China website after a driver in Beijing, who recently crashed in “autopilot” mode, complained that the car maker overplayed
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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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A US driver made it to hospital while suffering a pulmonary embolism after putting his car into autopilot. Joshua Neally was driving his Tesla Model X home from his office in the US city of Springfield, Missouri, to nearby Branson. But after pulling onto the highway, he started suffering piercing pain in his stomach and chest. Rather than call an
Read moreMercedes-Benz has defended an advertising campaign for its new E-Class against allegations that consumers were being misled about the car’s self-driving capabilities, the latest backlash by consumer groups in the wake of a fatal Tesla accident. Consumer groups warned car buyers not to rely too heavily on advanced cruise control systems, which use computers and sensors to automatically steer and
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