With today's semi-self-driving technology (as Autopilot is), radar typically ignores vehicles in the oncoming lane or crossing in front. In the May 7 fatal crash in Florida, a tractor-trailer made a left turn on a divided-highway intersection, but the trailer was white and the sky behind was brightly lit. (Although cameras could help, for instance by more quickly recognizing a stopped car.) For instance, if the road curves left, but there's a garage-size boulder at the curve in the road straight ahead, the car's self-driving software needs rules to decide if it can be ignored. What's obvious to humans is acquired knowledge for radar. Some of the software tweaking might be to give more priority to shapes moving sideways across the radar's field of view.Ĭurrently, radar is optimized to track objects moving in the same direction as the car, not cars that are stopped, or large physical objects such as bridges or building walls. Tesla apparently wants radar to be a more dominant part of the equation - perhaps emulating lidar 3D shape scanners that are still too costly ($5,000 plus, with at least two required) to deploy on most cars sold now. In a series of Tweets and some interviews over the past week and a half, Musk thanked Tesla's suppliers of the forward-looking radar, Bosch, and the camera system, Mobileye, "for their help and support," adding, "Please direct all criticism at Tesla." It appears Tesla does not envision replacing radar or camera sensors, which might raise the question of the same or similar radar units on other automakers' cars. (Opens in a new window) Criticize us, not Bosch or Mobileye The enhancements would be software-only, likely sent as an over-the-air update, Musk said. In a series of Tweets, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla is considering decoupling the car's camera system from its radar and using "temporal smoothing to create a coarse point cloud, like lidar" to improve recognition of hazards. Both the driver and the Model S in autonomous mode failed to pick up on a tractor trailer turning left in front of them, which led to the May 7 death of Joshua Brown in Florida. Musk explains, "I run SpaceX and Tesla, so there's usually some sort of thing that's happened overnight." We totally hear what he's saying and always support improving and implementing healthy changes.Tesla will tweak the software of its Autopilot radar system to improve its performance in the wake of a fatal accident. The struggle is real, and changes can be tough to implement. He's ready to up his wellness game, saying on the Full Send Podcast, "I to work out and be in better shape." He adds, "I'm going to switch from immediately looking at my phone as soon as I wake up to working out for at least 20 minutes-then I'll look at my phone." It's a terrible habit, actually," according to CNBC Make It.īad (but oh-so-common) habit #2? Musk deals with emails for a half hour after waking up. He reveals in an interview with the Full Send Podcast, "I have a bad habit-which I suspect a lot of people do-of immediately checking my phone. There are two things Elon Musk does first thing every morning he feels negatively impact his overall wellness, and he'd like to cut both out. He wants to quit the bad habit of checking his phone when he wakes up in the AM.
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