Misunderstanding of what "beta" means to Tesla for Autopilot: any system w less than 1B miles of real world driving https://t.co/WG5vnFvegI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 10 July 2016
In a recent Reuters report, Germany’s Federal Office for Motor Vehicles (KBA) said it would not have approved the Autopilot system installed on Tesla cars if the technology was still in a “beta-phase” version. Following this, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has now come out to clarify the carmaker’s use of the term “beta.”
On his official Twitter page, Musk explained that the term “beta” is not used in the standard sense, but rather an explicit warning to make sure that drivers “don’t get comfortable” with the system i.e. sleeping in the car with Autopilot engaged. Put simply, drivers have to be at the ready to take over if needed.
According to Musk, Tesla’s Autopilot system would need to notch up at least one billion miles of real-world driving before it can leave the “beta” phase. He added that even though Tesla had performed extensive Autopilot testing on its fleet, “there is no substitute for real world experience.”
“With less than one billion miles, there simply isn’t enough data. One billion is a necessary but not necessarily sufficient condition,” he tweeted. When asked when the company will hit the billion-mile mark, Musk expects to hit said target in around six months, after which all Autopilot-equipped Teslas will be offered a software update that includes “hundreds of refinements to handle rare corner cases.”
Back in May, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Programs, Sterling Anderson confirmed that the company has collected 780 million miles worth of Autopilot data and 100 million miles of active Autopilot use, according to a report by Electrek. He added that the company is adding a million more miles every 10 hours – thanks to a fleet of over 70,000 Teslas equipped with Autopilot hardware.
Tesla’s Autopilot system has come under intense scrutiny from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) following the first-known fatality involving the system. The “self-driving” feature has also been linked with two Tesla Model X crashes in Pennsylvania and Montana, recently.
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Asking pipu to QC & test their functions is like toyota asking pipu to QC & test their non-existent safety features. Both unethical but cannot be persoaled.
What language is this? Annoyingus?
Singlish
Sir, your stupidity can’t be expressed enough with your language. Let me ask you this, is Proton free from QC problems and accidents after ‘testing’ extensively?
you know, sometimes back it was illegal to install a screen at the front of the vehicle, JPJ rules. Than JPJ found their rules contradict with the mainstream cars when BMW launched the idrive.
Now, we practically have a huge ipad infront of us just like this Tesla.
Best out-of-beta criteria for car autopilot: They should test 1 billion miles of distinct routes in all types of Malaysian road/weather/kampung/off-road/mud/potholes/sinkhole/jam/deadlock/crossings without accidents, even if the accident is caused by rear rampage of bus the test still failed.
failed means failed….it is so funny that tesla use the total number of their car’s millage ( million miles every 10 hours ) to conclude how safe is their cars
I don’t think anything will be safer than an alert driver. If a mad gorilla racer wannabe comes crashing into you, there’s nothing you can do.
(Here I just wanna take a swipe at those who talk bad about women drivers – the worst drivers on the road are males driving Wira, Vios, Myvi – only white/black Myvi drive badly – its a Malaysian phenomenon)
Also, simple rules like not speeding on left lane, keeping distance from car in front and behind, and thinking in advance which lane you wanna go.
Why are simple things so hard for simple Malaysians?