advanced driver assistance systems
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Lucid Is Trying To Outdo Tesla On Tech
The genius — or asinine simplicity, depending on how you interpret it — of Tesla is that Teslas are technologically very sophisticated but sold in terms that any idiot can understand. Full Self-Driving, for example, describes a whole bunch of software and hardware that would put you to sleep if described in technical terms, but…
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Smarter In-Car Cameras Can Detect Every Dumb Thing You’re Doing While Driving
Several automakers offer features where a camera inside a vehicle monitors the driver and sets off alerts when it detects them starting to fall asleep, but researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have developed an even smarter in-car camera system that can figure out exactly what a driver is doing, potentially improving the safety of semi-autonomous…
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Tesla’s Autopilot System Is Being Formally Investigated by the U.S. Government
The U.S. government is opening a formal probe into Tesla’s Autopilot software over the automated system’s reported tendency to send cars crashing headlong into emergency vehicles.
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Tesla Releases Full Self-Driving Update, Tells Users ‘It May Do the Wrong Thing at the Worst Time’
Years after its announced debut, Tesla has finally released beta version 9 of its Full Self-Driving system, albeit warning drivers that the software “may do the wrong thing at the worst time” and urging them not to become complacent at the wheel.