As the technology matures, all Tesla vehicles will have the hardware necessary to be fully self-driving with fail-operational capability, meaning that any given system in the car could break and your car will still drive itself safely. It is important to emphasize that refinement and validation of the software will take much longer than putting in place the cameras, radar, sonar and computing hardware.
Even once the software is highly refined and far better than the average human driver, there will still be a significant time gap, varying widely by jurisdiction, before true self-driving is approved by regulators. We expect that worldwide regulatory approval will require something on the order of 6 billion miles (10 billion km). Current fleet learning is happening at just over 3 million miles (5 million km) per day.
Here Elon mentions a milestone of 6 billion miles. At their current rate, Tesla will hit that in 5 years, but clearly we can expect the rate to increase rapidly.
What struck me as interesting about Tesla's approach is they are using a much cheaper sensor suite than Google/Uber. If they succeed it means they'll have developed algorithms (patents) to achieve a self-driving car on cheap hardware. Giving them 2 competitive advantages.
https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/master-plan-part-deux?redir...
As the technology matures, all Tesla vehicles will have the hardware necessary to be fully self-driving with fail-operational capability, meaning that any given system in the car could break and your car will still drive itself safely. It is important to emphasize that refinement and validation of the software will take much longer than putting in place the cameras, radar, sonar and computing hardware.
Even once the software is highly refined and far better than the average human driver, there will still be a significant time gap, varying widely by jurisdiction, before true self-driving is approved by regulators. We expect that worldwide regulatory approval will require something on the order of 6 billion miles (10 billion km). Current fleet learning is happening at just over 3 million miles (5 million km) per day.
Here Elon mentions a milestone of 6 billion miles. At their current rate, Tesla will hit that in 5 years, but clearly we can expect the rate to increase rapidly.