Fred’s got the scoop: Jensen Gadley, a Tesla Model 3 owner from Las Vegas who rents out his car on Turo, was thinking of canceling a rental after the customers insisted on using the Smart Summon feature in his car. When the customers arrived, Gadley was surprised to see him come out of a Porsche […]
If you don’t know Ray Dalio, you should check out his book Principles. It’s a good read.
It’s December 2019: The month Tesla Autopilot launches the first public beta of “feature complete” full self driving. We’ve already seen some steps towards feature complete status with more agressive lane changes this week, but Elon has suggested that Navigate on Autopilot on city streets could launch to Early Access this month: It’s a kind […]
Here’s an interesting tidbit Tesla hacker greentheonly found while digging through the 2019.40 firmware: While looking through the symbols in the firmware, Green apparently saw some code or configuration keys referencing “CityStreetsBehavior”, which he claims was not there before. This would suggest that work is being done to enable city streets functionality for Navigate on […]
Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, Tesla rolled out a software update with the latest versions of the “Tesla Vision” Artificial Intelligence sensing system. The release notes pictured above were provided. Three major changes were mentioned in the release notes: 1. 170 kW Supercharging for Standard Range Model 3 I have a Long Range battery which supports […]
More good news for Uber: Uber Technologies Inc. owes New Jersey about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state’s labor department said. Bloomberg Law Oops. For those who haven’t been following this saga closely, Uber’s entire business model depends on classifying workers […]
Democratic U.S. Senator Ed Markey asked Tesla Inc on Wednesday to disable its “Autopilot” driver-assistance system until it installs new safeguards to prevent drivers from evading system limits that could let them fall asleep. Reuters This pointless action would result in aditional injuries and deaths, and would not stop anyone from falling asleep. Anyone who […]
Interesting story at Fortune from a few days ago from David Meyer, titled “Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis” (nice spin). Don’t hold your breath for a self-driving Mercedes car anytime soon. Fortune Don’t worry, I wasn’t 😂 But everyone who was can now exhale! Anybody? At Daimler’s capital market day […]
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Hm, it looks like Tesla is now recognizing dogs as pedestrian objects (19.36.2.1)? Or is it? That was not spelled in release notes! pic.twitter.com/XtvTFoKHKB — green (@greentheonly) November 11, 2019
