In a surprise announcement, Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise have declared that they are going to race their best self-driving vehicles from San Francisco to New York City later this year.
No humans will be allowed in the cars, not even passengers overseeing the progress and available for emergency purposes. Instead, teams of support personnel, PR people, and potential service vehicles will travel along with the Tesla, Waymo, and Cruise self-driving cars. Each company will have 3 opportunities to “save” their vehicles if they get stranded/stuck.
Naturally, each company faces some challenges. Waymo and Cruise have historically relied on very detailed mapping, lidar, and tremendously limited geographic operation, aka geofencing. Tesla, meanwhile, has seemingly made big progress, but its Full Self Driving Beta system still and can give up in situations where visibility is poor, road markings are bad, or something else confuses it. In those cases, FSD Beta drivers must take over, but there will beIt will be an interesting event closely tracked by media and onlookers around the world. The biggest question is: can any of the teams complete the race? Also, will any other companies join
It sounded very fishy after the part about Tesla (Elon) suggesting the race date as 4-20.
We can’t see the date 🤣 And you posted it here late! 😆
Your a few hours late . Yesterday was 1 april
Is this for real, or a late April’s fool article? No reference of the “announcement” in the article.
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