Autonomous driving is harder than expected – Elon Musk admits it
Tesla boss Elon Musk is not known for noble restraint, nor for leaving a path that has once been taken so soon. But this time it looks different: The Tesla CEO has publicly admitted that he overestimated himself when it comes to autonomous driving of his electric cars.
E-cars don’t drive autonomously as soon as they are not: Tesla boss Elon Musk backs down
As is so often the case when the name Elon Musk is mentioned, the scene is also in this case Twitter: In response to a tweet in which a Tesla driver makes fun of the late beta version of the so-called “Full Self Driving” software, explains Musk: The development of autonomous driving has continued turned out to be more difficult than expected.
It literally says: “General self-driving is a serious problembecause a large part of the real world AI has to be solved. I did not expect that it would be so difficult, but in retrospect the difficulty is obvious. “The following, pathetic saying” Nothing has a higher degree of freedom than reality. “(Source: Elon Musk via Twitter) is supposed to indicate that it is simply very extensive to map the real world using artificial intelligence and to develop autonomous driving on this basis.
Elon Musk likes to exaggerate Tesla’s skills
Usually the Tesla boss cannot praise his cars and their capabilities enough. Precisely because of the exaggerated depiction of Tesla’s driving assistants With the name Autopilot and the FSD program, the beta versions of which Tesla buyers can test in road traffic, the automaker and its CEO have already come under fire several times. Accidents have also been linked to the autopilot, among other things, interior cameras are now supposed to ensure more safety.
Everything doesn’t quite work as it should, but in the Video you can see how Elon Musk and Tesla imagine autonomous driving:
Tesla had to revise Musk’s announcements downwards or backwards once before: No more this year, as promised by the boss earlier, Tesla electric cars will drive autonomously. But now it has Musk himself first admittedto have taken over the plan or miscalculated.
