Director of AI at Tesla on Self Driving Progress: We’re Hiring
June 19th, 2020A year and a bit after an AI researcher buddy of mine said, in essence, “no way” would Tesla’s full self driving thing happen anytime soon, how much closer is Tesla to making it a reality?
Remember, back in April 2019, Elon Musk said that robotaxis were coming in 2020:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company should have robotaxis on the roads in 2020.
“I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year,” Musk said on stage at the Tesla Autonomy Investor Day in Palo Alto, California. They won’t be “in all jurisdictions, because we won’t have regulatory approval everywhere, but I am confident we will have at least regulatory approval somewhere, literally next year,” he said.
And then:
Musk also predicted that in two years, Tesla will be making cars with no steering wheels or pedals.
*chortle*
Instead of robotaxis and cars with no steering wheels or pedals being anywhere near to becoming a reality, we have Andrej Karpathy detailing the cringe inducing difficulties Tesla is facing and then asking people who work in relevant fields to submit their resumes.
Via: CVPR’20 WSAD:
