Tesla Motors has started to build its electric cars with sensors, cameras, and other equipment necessary to drive completely by themselves, once the regulations allow this technology to assume such responsibility.
The announcement by the director general of Tesla, Elon Musk, represents the next step for the ship-owner of Silicon Valley towards the sale of cars that can navigate without human assistance.
Google, the passenger transportation service Uber and a variety of manufacturers are also working on a range of autonomous vehicles in an effort to give eventually the steering wheel to the robots.
Tesla offers from the last year, a system for automatic driving and braking of name Autopilot in their cars, but that technology must be monitored at all times by a driver.
After additional testing and obtaining the regulatory approvals, all of the cars that leave the assembly lines of Tesla will have the necessary equipment to be fully autonomous, said Musk. Under the standards of the automotive industry, Tesla is a small company that manufactures around 100,000 cars per year, though expects to increase its production to 500,000 vehicles a year by 2018.
Musk has predicted that the technology will be two times safer than a human drivers. But he added that the protection will trigger the price of cars Tesla, which already exceeds the $ 80,000.
No comments:
Post a Comment