Tesla is bringing the hardware needed for full self-driving to its entire line, the car maker announced today. Every new Tesla the company produces from here on in, namely the Model 3, Model S and Model X, will have the equipment needed to drive autonomously.
The hardware will be capable of Level 5 autonomy, CEO Elon Musk said on a call with reporters, as reported by The Verge, meaning cars can drive themselves without any input from the human driver.
What kind of equipment are we talking here? For starters, eight surround cameras that scope 360-degrees at a range up to 250 meters (820 feet). A dozen updated ultrasonic sensors are also employed, picking up "both hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system," Tesla said in its announcement.
New Teslas will also have forward-facing radar that can see through heavy rain, fog, dust and the car in front of you, Tesla said.
All the data will be processed through a new onboard computer based on a Nvidia Titan GPU that has 40 times the computing power of its predecessor. The computer runs Tesla's self-made neural net for vision, sonar and radar processing software.
Pump the breaks
from Techradar - All the latest technology news