Elon Musk made further comments about the Tesla autopilot rewrite and now sets a timeline of 2 to 4 months before it can be released to the public with more functionality.
As we previously reported, Tesla is undergoing “a significant fundamental rewrite on Tesla’s autopilot.” As part of the rewriting, Musk says that “the neural network is increasingly absorbing the problem.”
It will also include a deeper labeling system.
Earlier this year, the CEO said he was almost done, but we haven’t seen the update yet.
Now Musk commented on Twitter last night with an update on the autopilot rewrite:
“It’s going well. The team is kicking butts and it’s an honor to work with them. Almost everything had to be rewritten, including our tagging software, to be fundamentally” 3D “at every step, from training to inference.”
In another tweet, the CEO said he believes the update is 2 to 4 months away:
“A lot of functions will happen at once when we transition to the new software stack. Most likely, it will be releasable in 2 to 4 months. So it’s about what functionality has been shown to be secure enough to allow owners. “
I would put it at the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter.
We recently reported on a talk by Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s head of artificial intelligence and computer vision, who spoke about Tesla’s current effort to improve labeling.
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It’s nice to have a timeline in the rewrite, but it’s unclear how it plays out in the plan for full self-driving.
Last year, Elon announced Tesla’s plan to deploy 1 million “Robotaxi” vehicles for a driverless carpool network by the end of 2020.
Now he’s talking about Tesla rolling out the rewrite in 2-4 months and while it says it will bring “a lot of functionality,” it doesn’t sound like a robotaxi.
I don’t blame Tesla for rewriting the autopilot software. It is an amazing thing they are trying to achieve and I think their vision based approach is the right one, but it is also normal that they have to adjust the execution along the way.
However, I am not overly confident in full self-driving (pending regulatory approval) by the end of the year.
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