Tesla upgraded hardware for self-driving systems across the entire car

This is Tesla's carefully prepared step for future self-driving systems.

According to Tesla's latest announcement, the company is currently planning to equip the most advanced hardware for its new line of cars so that it is "fully self-driving". Specifically, Tesla's new line of cars will have a total of 8 cameras with 360-degree viewing angles and a vision of up to 250 meters, 12 ultrasonic sensors to detect hard and soft objects around the vehicle and a front radar to Support vehicles can "look" through rain, fog and dust.

"Updating this hardware will be standard for Tesla cars from now on," said Ella Musk, Tesla's CEO. However, when Tesla cars reach users, they will still not be able to activate the fully autonomous feature of the Tesla representative that the car will "need to be calibrated by running millions of miles in real life" . It means that users need to run a long time for Tesla to monitor and calibrate the autonomous system before launching it officially.

System of 12 ultrasonic wave sensors on Tesla cars.

An important point to note is that the new Tesla will not activate the safety features in self-driving mode such as level-braking system, collision warning system, lane maintenance system and control system. active journey. The company representative said these features will be activated once the entire self-driving system has been carefully calibrated.

So Tesla is increasingly promoting self-driving ability for their cars, increasing safety and carefully preparing for the future. While many people may think such an upgrade is redundant because it is not used immediately, but for Tesla, this is an important upgrade. To know, the computer system on the car will always be in shadow mode to collect research data for self-driving feature.

In recent times, Tesla's autonomous system has stirred up public opinion when it has been involved in many accidents. However, Elon Musk said the autonomous system is much safer and it is not the cause of the accident, he avoided answering questions related to this before the press.

Tesla CEO, Mr. Elon Musk.

In addition, Musk said the new self-driving system on Tesla will have a Nvidia Titan- based processor , 40 times more processing power than the old system, and an upgrade from a camera. Up to 8 cameras, including 3 cameras in front of the car, will help the processing system have a panoramic view around, increasing safety to the maximum.

Musk said that this self-driving system is difficult to turn into a kit, so it won't be sold to other firms. In addition, he said that equipped with a series of sensors and cameras on the car will not affect the appearance.

According to Musk, the first self-driving feature test from Los Angeles to New York will take place at the end of 2017.