Tuesday, November 19, 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 fucking 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

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