Neil
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We took a Waymo back from dinner to compare it to the Tesla Robotaxi service. We noticed the steering wheel was way more jittery, less smooth creeping, and had a phantom braking incident in the first block and the brakes were super jerky. Way less smooth than the Tesla overall.…
You can retrofit a front bumper camera into an older Model X(and S. this is a 2023). Late 2024 Model 3 Highlands also have the front bumper connector on the car computer. Model X requires the Front Camera, Front Bumper Grill, obvious wiring, updated washer motor and the extra…
Tesla Robotaxi stops for UPS truck pulling over. It is learning.
I was sitting in Uber the other day and thinking — what if the human driver was wearing invisible cloak — would we still trust the car as much even if it’s 100% driven by a human? Often time I was counting the intervention per Uber ride. The number was definitely not zero, but…
Updated Apple Vision Series and Smart Glasses Roadmap (2025–2028) according to @mingchikuo: Headsets: 1. Vision Pro (M5): • Mass production scheduled for 3Q25, with projected shipments of 150,000-200,000 units in 2025 • Processor upgrade from M2 to M5; other specifications…
Apple Vision Series and Smart Glasses Roadmap (2025–2028): Smart Glasses Set to Drive the Next Wave in Consumer Electronics Full story: mingchikuo.craft.me/b4ueOLIjxf2wPG
Only three things matter in perception — frame rate, acuity and dynamic range in a given unit of time. LiDAR has none. Thus, it’s hopeless for a robot using LiDAR to perform any delicate work.
No offense meant. But this is what happens when non-technical CEOs have a major technical decision put in front of them. Some non-sensical word salad response. What is the specific test case that LiDAR solves for that the Tesla real-world AI CV system cannot?
There were no people in the car at all and no remote operators in control at any point. FULLY autonomous! To the best of our knowledge, this is the first fully autonomous drive with no people in the car or remotely operating the car on a public highway.
Last month when BYD slashed prices as much as 34%, I knew the company is in trouble and it’s a sign of excessive inventory and delayed term of payment to suppliers. Now BYD has reportedly cut back on production and cancelled night shifts at some of its plants.
I have restrained myself from criticizing Gary's less intelligent remarks in the past several weeks...but this so far exceeds the dumb level that I simply must. Clearly Gary has never introduced a safety critical product during his marketing career selling soap. WTF do you think…
The bottleneck for Waymo is that sensing & compute unit vs the vehicle themselves are operated as two separate entities. While we know every single detail of the vehicle and behave as one. Plus, it is very hard to interface with a legacy vehicle platform. The control command…
we are launching our Robotaxi service in austin today they said it couldn’t be done. you need lidar. you need more sensors. you need HD maps of the city you operate in. turns out ….. you just need cameras + AI to make cars drive themselves. 10 years in the making. so proud…
$TSLA's next-generation FSD chip, HW5/AI5, has entered mass production. The HW5 chip is being jointly manufactured by TSMC and Samsung, utilizing the 3nm N3P process. It boasts a performance of 2000 to 2500 TOPS, which is five times that of the current HW4 chip, enabling support…
Tesla is outselling even the cheapest BEVs in China despite costing considerably more. This should tell you something.
The automakers keep being told that this isn’t real or that just buying some hardware from Nvidia will solve it. As Tesla robotaxis become widespread and their other solutions don’t work, they will naturally turn to us.
It’s a new version of software, but will merge to main branch soon. We have a more advanced model in alpha stage that has ~4X the params, but still requires a lot of polishing. That’s probably ready for deploy in a few months.