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Re:GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank... by Robotbeat on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @09:14PM (#19855027)
What I find interesting is that Nvidia claimed on their website that their hardware could do self driving. That’s the same hardware that Tesla has used and has to upgrade to the new Neural Net chip. Do you think Nvidia is going to pay for the hardware upgrade Teslas need? Tesla is doing so. They believe the current version of the NN is good enough for FSD, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be improved.

What I find so fascinating about this discussion is how Tesla is necessarily the most transparent player yet everyone else (with the same stated FSD goals) is given a pass due to secrecy. I suppose that means secrecy works.

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Re:GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank... by warp_factor on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:03PM (#19855293)
What do you mean Tesla is the most transparent player? They absolutely never showed anything else than slides and a 2 minute video. That's probably the least transparent from all the big players. You can go to Mountain View and see cars running right now. Or go to Phoenix and get into a Waymo car.

Again you got ahead of yourself with the Tesla hype.

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Re:GM Cruise raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from Softbank... by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:57AM (#19857069)
Nvidia probably wrote this b/c Tesla is using it. And Tesla is claiming the hardware is (was) enough b/c Nvidia wrote it.
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