TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsTesla Does Away With The NDA On FSD Beta Footage Because It Never Needed It AnywayFull Self-Driving Beta 10.2 lacks the non-disclosure agreement present in prior releases.ByAdam IsmailPublishedOctober 11, 2021Comments (12)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsHardcore Tesla Fans Did A Lot Of Weird, Joyless-Seeming Driving So They Can Get The New FSD BetaThe road to proving to an AI that you're good enough turns out to be a pretty long roadByJason TorchinskyPublishedOctober 11, 2021Comments (58)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsTesla Is Now Ranking Drivers With A 'Safety Score' And Of Course It's Already Going WeirdUnsurprisingly, judging driving behavior without context turns safety into a stupid gameByJason TorchinskyPublishedSeptember 27, 2021Comments (102)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsI Dispelled A Big Tesla Autopilot Myth By Running Tests On A Tesla Model YI've heard misinformation about this repeated many times, so I drove behind a Tesla Model Y to set the record…ByJason TorchinskyPublishedSeptember 16, 2021Comments (116)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsWhy A Tesla Using FSD Running A Stop Sign Isn't Necessarily TerribleI mean, it's not great, but it's a good reminder of the incredible cultural complexity of drivingByJason TorchinskyPublishedSeptember 14, 2021Comments (108)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsBMW Is The First Carmaker To Offer The Ability To Record And Play Back Driving ManeuversBMW's system will debut with the new iX electric SUV, and it's just for parking, but it's interestingByJason TorchinskyPublishedSeptember 13, 2021Comments (22)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsL.A. Is Getting An Autonomous Taxi Test Fleet Of Hyundai Ioniq 5sThe boxy low-poly electric hatchbacks will be driving themselves all over The City of AngelsByLawrence HodgePublishedSeptember 3, 2021Comments (3)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsA Tesla That The Driver Says Was On Autopilot Crashed Into A Stopped Police Car, AgainThis sort of accident is one seen before with Autopilot, and is the root of the current NHTSA investigationByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 29, 2021Comments (151)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsToyota Shuts Down Its Autonomous e-Palette Vehicles After Accident At The Olympic VillageThe suspension comes a day after the initial accidentByLawrence HodgePublishedAugust 27, 2021Comments (16)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsWaymo Will Be Giving Rides To Passengers In San FranciscoOnly select riders will be able to hail the company's autonomous taxisByLawrence HodgePublishedAugust 25, 2021Comments (7)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsLots Of People Seem To Completely Misunderstand The Autonomy Levels, So Let's Clear This UpIf you think the SAE Autonomy levels are referring to how good a car is at self-driving, I have bad news for youByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 23, 2021Comments (139)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsTesla's AI Day Event Did A Great Job Convincing Me They're Wasting Everybody's TimeLevel 2-assisted driving, especially in-city driving, is worse than useless. It's stupid.ByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 20, 2021Comments (241)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsIf Waymo Can't Do It Then I Wonder If Anyone CanSelf-driving cars were the near-term future until they weren't, until they maybe were again, until they weren't.ByErik ShillingPublishedAugust 17, 2021Comments (123)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsNHTSA Opens Investigation Into Tesla Autopilot-Related Crashes Into Emergency VehiclesAfter a series of Autopilot-controlled Tesla on emergency vehicle crashes, the NHTSA decides it's time to know moreByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 16, 2021Comments (80)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsTests Show All Driver Assist Systems Can Be Fooled, Not Just TeslaOf course, that doesn't mean Tesla's Autopilot safeguards are good; Car and Driver's tests show none of them areByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 12, 2021Comments (124)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsOne Road Fork In Yosemite Seems To Have Caused Multiple Tesla Autopilot WrecksThe same spot in Yosemite National Park seems to have been the cause of five Tesla AP crashes so what's going on?ByJason TorchinskyPublishedAugust 9, 2021Comments (160)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsElon Musk Sure Didn't Sound Certain About Full Self-Driving On Tesla's Earnings CallThe Tesla CEO hinted the FSD system being sold is only worth the money when and if finally works.ByJason TorchinskyPublishedJuly 27, 2021Comments (92)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsMercedes-Benz' Claims To Have Level 3 Automated Driving But There's Still A Huge ProblemThe problem may be with the definition of Level 3 itself, which just isn't good enoughByJason TorchinskyPublishedJuly 26, 2021Comments (38)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsTesla Is Going To Make Many Owners Pay $1,500 For FSD Hardware They Already BoughtTesla's new FSD subscription plan requires for many cars a hardware upgrade that owners were told they already had.ByJason TorchinskyPublishedJuly 20, 2021Comments (178)
TechAutonomous CarsTechAutonomous CarsVideos Showing Off Tesla's New FSD Beta 9 Are Out And Are Both Impressive And AlarmingThe new visualizations are nice and it identifies brake lights but it also can't see some certain solid objects, so…ByJason TorchinskyPublishedJuly 12, 2021Comments (84)