Tesla Autonomy Day
What it is
Tesla's roughly four-hour Autonomy Day investor event covers its in-house self-driving chip, vision-only approach, fleet data engine and robotaxi plans, with talks by Andrej Karpathy and others.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited both as a primary source on Tesla's technical autonomy approach and, later, for Musk's unmet robotaxi predictions.
- 3 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2019, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“almost 4h long, but worth a watch”
Tesla's autonomy plans and implications for ride services
furriephillips, 2019-05 · Recommendation · in “The investor who turned down Uber at a $5m valuation”
“Watch the presentation from 6 months ago, where they explain the decision to build their own hardware for inferring”
Explains Tesla's decision to build its own inference hardware.
antpls, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “Andrej Karpathy talks about how Tesla's NNs are structured and trained [video]”
“It’s worth watching the tesla event from about a year ago if you haven’t seen it for their full position”
Tesla's full position on vision-only versus lidar for autonomy.
fossuser, 2020-08 · Recommendation · in “Electric car startup Lucid is challenging Tesla’s anti-Lidar stance”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: autonomy day, fsd chip, vision vs lidar, data engine, robotaxi
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