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Final Up to date on: twenty ninth January 2025, 11:49 am
Tesla has tweeted out that its automobiles at the moment are driving themselves — utilizing Full Self Driving (Unsupervised) — from the manufacturing unit the place they’re produced in California to the loading dock lanes the place they may get put onto semi vans and brought away. You’ll be able to watch movies of that right here:
Teslas now drive themselves from their birthplace on the manufacturing unit to their designated loading dock lanes with out human intervention
One step nearer to large-scale unsupervised FSD pic.twitter.com/Aj6dHsLaRO
– Tesla ai (@tesla_ai) January 29, 2025
Beginning with the ~1.2 mile route on the Fremont manufacturing unit pic.twitter.com/avgSpBxb4j
– Tesla ai (@tesla_ai) January 29, 2025
Is that this a step ahead? For positive! Is that this a way more environment friendly and cost-saving solution to get automobiles from the manufacturing unit to the Tesla Semi vans? Undoubtedly! Is that this progress? Duh.
Nevertheless, it additionally appears evident that these automobiles are driving on personal property — simply on Tesla’s personal roads. So, no approval was wanted from the state and it’s fairly a managed setting. You may also see within the movies that it’s a reasonably clear monitor and the automobiles don’t drive at excessive speeds.
If I’m being sincere, I’m stunned Tesla didn’t begin doing this years in the past. With Full Self Driving know-how I had in my 2019 Tesla Mannequin 3 once I purchased it, I’m fairly sure Tesla may have painted the strains from manufacturing unit to loading space and fairly simply programmed the automobiles to do that. In reality, I did suppose years in the past that Tesla was about to begin doing this.
So, sure, it’s progress — and it’s tremendous cool to see in video — nevertheless it doesn’t blow my thoughts and don’t suppose it ought to blow anybody else’s. The optimistic facet of it’s in all probability that that is presumably utilizing regular Tesla FSD software program, so it exhibits how good FSD is attending to a sure extent, however, once more, I feel the tech may have achieved this wonderful a very long time in the past and I do surprise what has taken so lengthy to implement it and minimize prices.
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