Submission + - Tesla's Elon Musk promises full self-driving Autopilot beta in 'a month or so' (cnet.com) 1
niftydude writes: At Tesla Motors' annual shareholder meeting and Battery Day 2020 event, CEO Elon Musk announced that the electric automobile manufacturer is preparing to release a private beta of the "full self-driving version" of its Autopilot driver-aid software in the coming months.
Musk went on to explain how Tesla's engineers recently had to overhaul major parts of the Autopilot, including a rethinking of how the system sees the world.
"We had to do a fundamental rewrite of the entire Autopilot software stack We're now labeling 3D video, which is hugely different from when we were previously labeling single 2D images," Musk explained, referring to the way the Autopilot software understands what the objects it sees with its eight cameras are, and how it should react to them. "We're now labeling entire video segments, taking all cameras simultaneously and labeling that. The sophistication of the neural net of the car and the overall logic of the car is improved dramatically."
Musk went on to explain how Tesla's engineers recently had to overhaul major parts of the Autopilot, including a rethinking of how the system sees the world.
"We had to do a fundamental rewrite of the entire Autopilot software stack We're now labeling 3D video, which is hugely different from when we were previously labeling single 2D images," Musk explained, referring to the way the Autopilot software understands what the objects it sees with its eight cameras are, and how it should react to them. "We're now labeling entire video segments, taking all cameras simultaneously and labeling that. The sophistication of the neural net of the car and the overall logic of the car is improved dramatically."
"""""Full""""" Self Driving (Score:2)
His definition of "full" has changed dramatically over the years. As originally sold it was "car can drive itself across America, charging itself as needed". It's been heavily downgraded since then. Unfortunately he didn't explain exactly what he was intending to release and how "beta" it is.