Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, reiterated the company’s Full Self Driving (FSD) The ambitious goal is to develop an assisted driving system that is about 10 times safer than ordinary human drivers. When this level of safety is reached, regulators are likely to allow FSD to operate as an unmanned system on public roads.
Before making the above comments, Musk once commented on the just-released FSD Beta 9.2, saying that its actual performance was not good enough. He said: FSD Beta 9.2 is actually not great, but Autopilot and the AI team are improving it as quickly as possible. We are trying to build a one-stop solution for highways and city streets, but it requires a lot of Neural network retraining.
It’s amazing by most standards, but we are aiming for 1000% safer than the average human driver
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 24, 2021
On the surface, Musk’s comments do not sound particularly reassuring. Many FSD beta users have also spoken and teased him and released many driver-assisted driving systems for driving for a long time without any intervention. video. In this regard, Musk subsequently reiterated the company’s goal of developing driver-assisted driving kits that are 1,000% safer than human drivers.
Musk clarified: From most standards, the performance of FSD Beta 9.2 is amazing, but our goal is to develop a driver-assisted driving system that is 1000% safer than ordinary drivers. This in itself reveals that Musk and the Tesla AI team have realized that self-driving cars need to be much safer than human driving in order to be accepted by a wider audience.
Even if self-driving cars are twice as safe as human drivers, the number of people who die in car accidents will be greatly reduced. Currently, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla Autopilot and FSD kits for suspected collisions with emergency vehicles.
Over the years, Tesla FSD and driver-assisted driving system Autopilot have saved countless lives. In the first quarter of 2021, a car with Tesla Autopilot will drive an average of 4.19 million miles (6.74 million kilometers) and an accident will occur, while a car without Autopilot but with active safety features will travel an average of 2.05 million miles (3.3 million kilometers). Accidents will occur. In contrast, the latest crash data from NHTSA shows that an average US car traveled 484,000 miles (780,000 kilometers) in one accident.
It is quite difficult to truly understand how advanced Tesla Autopilot and FSD Beta are, especially when compared to other driver-assisted functions currently being developed by its competitors. However, car disassembly expert Sandy Munro recently tested the Ford BlueCruise system and compared it with FSD. He found that although Ford claimed that BlueCruise was a no intervention solution for autonomous driving in certain areas of American highways, Monroe quickly discovered that the system requires human intervention even when it is appropriate to turn.
Tesla Autopilot and FSD Beta are officially classified as SAE’s L2 autonomous driving system. The company also specifically pointed out that drivers must put their hands on the steering wheel so that they can intervene manually at any time. This strategy seems to be unique to Tesla because other companies such as Mercedes-Benz have released SAE L3 systems, which can safely operate under very limited conditions. On the other hand, Tesla may require drivers to put their hands on the steering wheel, but its Autopilot and FSD systems have been able to navigate on roads and in a variety of conditions.
