Tesla Giga Berlin just receives another advance approval. As the Brandenburg State Environment Agency announced on Tuesday, the functionality of systems in the paint shop, foundry and body shop can now be tested.
Tesla Makes Either a Visionary or Foolish Choice To Drop Radar
Tesla ditching its radar system supporting Autopilot and maybe FSD and replacing it with the video camera only Pure Vision has people nervous in the automotive industry. Is Tesla s Choice to drop radar visionary or foolish? Torque News EV commentator Dean McManis thinks that Tesla may be looking to lower cost and complexity on its electric vehicles, but the rumor of radar sensor shortage may be at the heart of the decision to change now. Here is Dean McManis in his own words.
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I would like to imagine that Tesla is doing this move to Pure Vision because they are confident in it s accuracy to not need the duplication of sensors to provide excellent automated driving capability. But I worked for years in developing vehicle and object tracking systems, and there were several conditions and instances where cameras alone failed to properly see objects and vehicles.
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Lausitzring is to become a test site for new Tesla models produced at Giga Berlin factory as talks are currently ongoing with the racetrack operator Dekra. What's especially interesting, is that Lausitzring racetrack will be capable to host self-driving cars for testing.
Baidu To Operate 3,000 Driverless Apollo Go Robotaxis in 30 Cities in 3 Years
When it comes to robotaxis you have probably heard about Tesla robotaxis because Elon Musk has envisaged a robotaxi network with vehicles that can park and plug in themselves using Tesla s self-driving technology. Or you may have heard of Waymo One. But Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis have already registered over 6.2 million miles of Level 4 driving and plan to operate 3,000 driverless Apollo Go robotaxis in 30 cities within the next three years.
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The Chinese search engine giant Baidu began on Sunday, May 2, offering the first rides to commercial customers in its self-driving robotaxis. Known as Apollo Go, the service has been open to the public as a pilot since last October, but on May 2 it was the first time that drivers had to pay to benefit from it.