Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.
Tesla

Tesla Safety Under Investigation: Feds investigate Tesla's Full Self Driving and Autopilot.

U.S. authorities are investigating Tesla’s self-driving technology. Federal regulators launched a probe of nearly two dozen accidents, some of them fatal, that involved Tesla vehicles equipped for self-driving.

March 31, 20212 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
Tesla

Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs
Tesla

Tracking the Elusive Stop Sign: How Tesla trained its cars to recognize stop signs

Recognizing stop signs, with their bold color scheme and distinctive shape, ought to be easy for computer vision — but it turns out to be a tricky problem. Tesla pulled back the curtain on what it takes to train its self-driving software to perform this task and others.

April 29, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
Tesla

Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.
Tesla

Phantom Menace: Fake images can fool some self-driving cars.

Some self-driving cars can’t tell the difference between a person in the roadway and an image projected on the street. A team of researchers used projectors to trick semiautonomous vehicles into detecting people, road signs, and lane markings that didn’t exist.

February 12, 20202 min read
Driverless Cars Stall: Why autonomous driving stalled in 2019
Tesla

Driverless Cars Stall: Why autonomous driving stalled in 2019

Makers of self-driving cars predicted a quick race to the finish line, but their vehicles are far from the homestretch. A few years ago, some car companies promised road-ready autonomous vehicles as early as 2017.

December 24, 20191 min read
Driverless Cars Stall: Why autonomous driving stalled in 2019
Tesla

Driverless Cars Stall: Why autonomous driving stalled in 2019

Makers of self-driving cars predicted a quick race to the finish line, but their vehicles are far from the homestretch. A few years ago, some car companies promised road-ready autonomous vehicles as early as 2017.

December 24, 20191 min read
Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets
Tesla

Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets

Elon Musk has promised a fleet of autonomous Tesla taxis by 2020. The company reportedly purchased a computer vision startup to help meet that goal. Tesla acquired DeepScale, a Silicon Valley startup that rocesses computer vision on low-power electronics.

October 9, 20191 min read
Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets
Tesla

Tesla Bets on Slim Neural Nets

Elon Musk has promised a fleet of autonomous Tesla taxis by 2020. The company reportedly purchased a computer vision startup to help meet that goal. Tesla acquired DeepScale, a Silicon Valley startup that rocesses computer vision on low-power electronics.

October 9, 20191 min read

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