Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Trump Team Is Seeking to Ease US Rules for Self-driving Cars

MEMBERS of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team have told advisers they plan to make a federal framework for fully self-driving vehicles one of the Transportation Department's priorities, according to people familiar with the matter.

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... If new rules enable cars without human controls, it will directly benefit Elon Musk, the Tesla chief executive officer and Trump mega-donor who's become a powerful fixture in the president-elect's inner circle. He's bet the future of the EV maker on self-driving technology and artificial intelligence.

Tesla shares traded up more than 8 per cent as of 4.15 am on Monday (Nov 18) in New York, before the start of regular trading. The stock has climbed 28 per cent since election day. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-19 06:41 PM

It will also directly affect WayMo.

WayMo is long term big idea.

#2 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-11-19 07:04 PM

It's a ------- stupid idea, moron

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-11-19 07:21 PM

@#2 ... It will also directly affect WayMo. ...

It will directly affect all self-driving efforts.

But one of those efforts seems to benefit significantly more than the others, the one that has been promising full-self-driving but unable to deliver.

Indeed WayMo Driver seems to be quite ahead of Tesla's FSD efforts, and may not need this relaxation of the FSD regulations as much as Tesla seems to.

On self driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (May 2024)
www.understandingai.org

... During a late March trip to San Francisco, I had a chance to try the latest self-driving technology from both Tesla and Google's Waymo.

During a 45-minute test drive in a Tesla Model X, I had to intervene twice to correct mistakes by the FSD software. In contrast, I rode in driverless Waymo vehicles for more than two hours and didn't notice a single mistake.

So while Tesla's FSD version 12.3 seems like a significant improvement over previous versions of FSD, it still lags behind Waymo's technology. ...




#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-19 07:23 PM

All those blue collar drivers that voted for trump are going to blame obama when they are replaced by a robot.

#5 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-11-20 01:27 PM

uh huh, "Robots making robots!", from a company that can't make a robot that can fit body panels correctly.

#6 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-11-20 02:34 PM

Of course they are. When billionaires buy a government they expect to get something in return. We just elected the most pro corporate, anti regulation, anti consumer government in history and they paid a lot of money to win.

#7 | Posted by prius04 at 2024-11-20 04:44 PM

The people who are far ahead in self driving cars have been saying all along that in order to have self driving with a normal computer you need BOTH visual cues and radar/lidar.

Musk got rid of Lidar to save money and is going ahead with visual/cameras alone. I own a Tesla and currently have FSD but it's a parlor trick and not even close to ready to be let out without 100% supervision.

#8 | Posted by prius04 at 2024-11-20 04:47 PM

Prius04 is correct. I've NEVER held a steering wheel as tightly and with as much attention as when Tesla FSD is engaged. It is nerve wracking.

#9 | Posted by lrathome at 2024-11-20 05:24 PM

I'm sure this will be one of many glaring conflicts of interest we'll just be forced to accept.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-20 07:02 PM

Elon said that years ago. Telsa pivoted, they use LIDAR data in their trained models. They purchased millions in cameras for integration testing. It will go from dev to production.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-11-21 10:37 AM

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