Far to lift the foot on the autonomous car, Elon Musk accelerates. “All the cars produced by Tesla will have the equipment needed to be completely autonomous,” said the boss of the manufacturer, california electric cars during a conference call. It will, however, still have to wait for vehicles to lead truly all alone : Tesla expects to activate only very gradually, their new features and warns that it is impossible to know, at this point, when the total battery life will be legal.
Two times more secure than a driver human
” It’s going to take us time for a full validation of the software and to obtain the authorization of the regulators, ” admitted Elon Musk. “But the important thing is that the foundations are laid for the cars to be fully autonomous, a level of security that we believe to be at least twice that of a person, maybe more,” he added. He also promised ” a demonstration of driving in total autonomy from Los Angeles to New York (…) by the end of next year “. Tesla reaffirms its bet on the cars without drivers and their confidence in their reliability, in spite of the investigations opened in recent months in several countries after the accidents involving a car equipped with its current system of automatic assistance in the conduct Autopilot. In practice, the number of cameras will be increased from one to eight to allow a 360-degree vision around the car, and they will be supplemented by 15 ultrasonic sensors of new generation is two time s more powerful than their predecessors. Elon Musk has also pointed to a power multiplied by a factor of 40 for the computer equipment on board, which he compared to ” a supercomputer in the car.”
Features soon switched to 5 000 to 8 000 €
In the immediate future, cars equipped with the new equipment will “temporarily” less capacity as autonomous as those with Autopilot, ” including security options such as automatic braking in emergency, the collision warning, keeping them in a queue and the speed regulator “, according to a press release from Tesla. Elon Musk, however, has estimated that the new vehicles would return to parity with their predecessors ” probably in December, perhaps within two to three months “, saying then aim for an automatic update, improving their capabilities every two or three months. On its website, Tesla is now offering buyers of its two models on the market (S and X) the ability to enable the choice of an upgraded version of Autopilot for 5. 000 dollars, or new features standalone for 3 000 dollars more.
Insurance adapted
most car manufacturers and a whole range of technology groups, including Alphabet (the mother house of Google or Uber, are currently working on the cars without a driver. The american Ford or German BMW, in particular, the goal of series production by 2021. Many of these actors say they consider the use of autonomous vehicles within the framework of on-demand services (taxis, car pooling or car sharing), and argue that they will reduce the number of road deaths, congestion and pollution. The actual arrival of these cars on the roads will, however, be an adaptation of existing laws, and a clarification of responsibilities in case of an accident. Interviewed Wednesday on this last point, Elon Musk replied that it would depend on ” the insurance of the person who owns the car.
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