{"id":207729,"date":"2021-08-24T17:31:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=207729"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:37:52","slug":"tesla-ceo-musk-calls-full-self-driving-not-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2021\/08\/tesla-ceo-musk-calls-full-self-driving-not-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Musk Calls Full Self-Driving \u201cNot Great\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A humble Elon Musk? It\u2019s a rarity, but that\u2019s what took to Twitter Aug. 23, describing his own company\u2019s latest version of Full Self-Driving beta as \u201cnot great imo\u201d after it got a positive review from industry expert Sandy Munro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted he believe the “FSD Beta 92 is actually not great, imo …” However, the company expected to have a much better update soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFSD Beta 9.2 is actually not great, imo, but Autopilot\/AI team is rallying to improve as fast as possible,\u201d Musk tweeted Aug. 23. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to have a single stack for both highway & city streets, but it requires massive NN retraining.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The posting from Musk came after a tweet showing a video clip of Munro, who runs a competitive analysis firm near Detroit, finishing up a turn behind the wheel of a Ford vehicle equipped with the automaker\u2019s new BlueCruise semi-autonomous driving technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Munro, who once was considered a Tesla critic, but has since become more effusive in his praise of the EV maker, offered a tepid review of the technology before pointing to Tesla\u2019s technology as something Ford should seek to emulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll in all, it was ok,\u201d he said. \u201cI guess I\u2019ve been a little bit spoiled by watching what Tesla\u2019s been doing with the Full Self-Driving beta. That is really impressive and I\u2019m going to suggest somehow, if you can, you get your hands on that and try it out. It\u2019ll really help you understand what I was talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla\u2019s tech issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Full Self-Driving is the gold standard, if Musk is to be believed, it\u2019s not without its critics and the company\u2019s technology isn\u2019t without some issues overall. First and foremost, FSD\u2019s predecessor, Autopilot, is the subject of an investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tesla’s Autopilot played a role in the collision with a fire truck parked on I-405.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, the safety agency is looking into 11 crashes during which Tesla vehicles are believed to have been operating in Autopilot and struck stationary vehicles operated by emergency responders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radar and even camera sensors can have problems recognizing stationary obstacles, several experts told TheDetroitBureau.com. Such situations are even more complex when cones or emergency vehicles are involved, Duke University engineering professor Mary Cummings told the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is that each emergency situation presents a different visual target that systems like Autopilot may not have been trained to recognize. \u201cThis is why emergency situations are so problematic,\u201d Cummings said. \u201cThe visual presentation is never the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment on the new NHTSA probe. But CEO Musk has frequently defended the Autopilot system, often claiming it is safer to use than relying on human drivers alone. He is also promising to bring out a fully hands-free version of the technology, though the rollout has repeatedly been delayed and now is not expected to occur until at least 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A humble Elon Musk? It\u2019s a rarity, but that\u2019s what took to Twitter Aug. 23, describing his own company\u2019s latest version of Full Self-Driving beta as \u201cnot great imo\u201d after it got a positive review from industry expert Sandy Munro. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":154635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7,8,10,1164],"tags":[1854,2332,2331,990,2330],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207729"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207738,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207729\/revisions\/207738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=207729"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=207729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}