Re:Tesla sues ex-Autopilot director for taking proprietary i...
by neurotech1 on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:40PM
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A significant part of the Tesla autopilot is powered by nVidia X1 based processors. The board is known as Drive PX1 or PX2 [0]
There is a lot more to autopilot than lane-keeping and auto-brake. Tesla use a database of road conditions, and predictive models, that are separate from the MobilEye technology. What MobilEye chip provides is basically a video processor, customized for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems(ADAS) applications with a relatively low power consumption.
The biggest counter to your "Mobileye and a Radar" is that several other manufacturers use MobilEye and even nVidia boards, yet do not have Tesla-level automated driving.[1] The pushback from MobilEye after the Florida crash is another key sign that Tesla has more advanced autonomous driving [2]
There is a lot more to autopilot than lane-keeping and auto-brake. Tesla use a database of road conditions, and predictive models, that are separate from the MobilEye technology. What MobilEye chip provides is basically a video processor, customized for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems(ADAS) applications with a relatively low power consumption.
The biggest counter to your "Mobileye and a Radar" is that several other manufacturers use MobilEye and even nVidia boards, yet do not have Tesla-level automated driving.[1] The pushback from MobilEye after the Florida crash is another key sign that Tesla has more advanced autonomous driving [2]
[0] http://www.nvidia.com/object/advanced-driver-assistance-syst...
[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/05/from-audi-to-volvo-most...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/mobileye-and-tesla-spat...