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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by modeless on Thursday August 02, 2018 @01:00PM (#17673129)
Yes, Musk said that on the earnings call. But the hardware upgrade is not the hard part of self driving. At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already, which was a ridiculous and worrying position for them to take.
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by dragonwriter on Thursday August 02, 2018 @02:04PM (#17673844)
> ridiculous and worrying

I think “fraudulent” would be more accurate; it was factually false, it was at best entirely unfounded if not actually knowingly false, it was material to decisions of people to purchase the self-driving add-on.

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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by ckastner on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:37PM (#17674775)
> At least they have stopped claiming that their current hardware is powerful enough for full self driving already

The Autopilot page [1] still states the following:

"All Tesla vehicles produced in our factory, including Model 3, have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver."

[1] https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by gruturo on Thursday August 02, 2018 @04:28PM (#17675185)
If you consider “hardware” as sensor suite only (quite a stretch of an interpretation, I know), then it’s kind of true, especially if they will replace the brains at no cost once they have an actual use for them
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