A brand new Tesla Model S or Model X has advanced hardware for selvkjøring on board.
Nvidia, the company behind the hardware that gives the Tesla cars regnekraften needed to make them completely self-executing, mean that the automaker has sent a powerful shockwave through the automotive industry.
But, so far, in fact, a new Tesla fewer opportunities than an older version of the Autopilot system.
It is due to the fact that Tesla is still working to develop the software to the new system.
These come to Tesla-models such as the Autopilot version 8.1.
Now reveal Tesla ceo Elon Musk via Twitter that the software is around three weeks away.
the Plan is that the system will over time get more and more skills, and eventually be able to run all by itself. It can happen as early as 2018.
the Competition has got a bad time
The automakers that previously talked about self-driving cars in 2020 has now suddenly got very much worse time.
Nvidia ceo Jen-Hsun Huang said in a conference call with analysts in connection with that they put forward the quarterly his earlier this month.
It was recently known that Tesla has selected the Nvidia Drive PX 2 platform to all its cars. All Tesla models are now supplied, has this platform on board, regardless of whether autonomy is selected as an option or not.
It means that any Tesla-model with Drive PX 2 in the long term will be made completely self-executing. All the cars they make now, have this hardware.
Volvo has also chosen this platform for its self-driving XC90.
A shockwave through the automotive industry
Tesla’s plan is to gradually build artificial intelligence that sets the cars able to run itself in the long term. Since all the cars have the hardware, can all clients get access to this as it improved.
I think that Tesla is now launching in the near future have the road capacity for the full selvkjøring based on artificial intelligence, has sent a shockwave through the automotive industry, ” says Huang, according to a transcript of the conference call published on the Yahoo.com.
He believes that 2021, as most car manufacturers have communicated that the time when they come with self-driving cars, is no longer a theme.
All who spoke about the autonomous capabilities in the 2020 and 2021 is reviewing it now, ” says Huang.
He believes that the problems that must be solved for self-driving cars, not about the sensors, but about artificial intelligence. He insists also that this problem is fixed in 2017.
Must constantly be improved
He believes that the car manufacturers have realised that they ultimately will have to deliver a service which continually need to be improved. He compares it with mobile phones and TV dekoderbokser.
He believes that autonomy is an additional feature, but a service customers want. Thus, the service must constantly be improved.
Nvidia’s Drive PX platform consists only of the hardware. The software must vehicle manufacturer to develop. It think Huang is positive, as it gives automakers the opportunity to own their own solutions.
It is revealed in the Huangs interest to claim it, but he believes that the Drive PX 2 is the only current platform on the planet today that can make self-driving cars a reality.
Easier for Tesla
Alejandro Zamorano-Cadavid, autonomy-expert in analysebyrået Bloomberg New Energy Finance, is not as sure that it is burning under the feet of the other automakers.
Tesla selling a few cars, so it is easier for them to implement these things. They also sell premiumbiler, which allows them to implement these solutions and get the buyers to pay for them, ” says Zamorana-Cadavid to Teknisk Ukeblad.
He believes that autonomibølgen which now goes through the automotive sector is not necessarily a result of what Tesla is doing, but rather that there has been a change in the bilprodusentenes view on technology in general.
He is also not agree with the Nvidia boss in that autonomy now just a databehandlingsspørsmål. The sensors are still expensive, and in some cases, large.
the Way I see it, still need sensorteknologien more development. And then there is the need for reliable telecommunications. If the sensor data cannot be overlaid with third-party data, then system will not be optimal no matter what computational power the vehicle has, say Zamorana-Cadavid.
third-party data in this context, among other things, information from other vehicles, veisignaler, traffic information and skydata.
Unclear how to earn money
Zamorana-Cadavid believe that although most automakers are working towards providing transport services in addition to selling vehicles, it is not obvious how a fleet of self-driving cars will be a profitable business for automakers.
It is also uncertain whether the laws and rules are clear in that time Tesla and Nvidia see for themselves.
This must be in place before completely autonomous cars to be driven on the road. Whether there should be fleets of self-driving cars on public roads in 2021, there are probably many laws and rules that need to be adjusted.
– the Interaction between human drivers and maskinsjåfører who share the road, is much more complicated than it dataforskere will accept, ” he says, and adds that those who design the laws will fear that there will be more accidents as a result of this interaction.
self-driving cars on Norwegian roads
the Regulations around self-driving cars are under development. In Norway jobs Ministry of transport and communications with a bill that could open for this already next year.
however, There is currently talk about to allow for this in some parts of the country, and then in order to attract the actors that develops and tests self-driving cars.
– Autonomous vehicles requires a completely different and much more detailed mapping of the veisystemet than what we have in the current map. Therefore, it is a good idea to start in specific areas, said transport minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen, to Teknisk Ukeblad last month.
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