Tesla will install equipment driving autonomous in all their vehicles – swissinfo.ch

The us manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla on Wednesday announced that all cars will go out in front of their factories, which are equipped with sensors, cameras and radars necessary for a driving-autonomous.

“All the vehicles that make Tesla will have the equipment materials to be totally autonomous,” said the president and group’s founder, Elon Musk, during a conference call.

A new computer with a processor of a power 40 times higher than that of the previous generation will provide a “neural network” for the vision sensors, sonar and radar, he said.

In a conference call with the press, Musk described the hardware as “a super-computer in a car”, which differs from the technology of auto pilot, existing up to now.

we Will have to wait, however, for which the car is driving really alone, as Tesla expected to turn progressively to these new functions.

“And it will take time” to fully validate the computer program and receive the approval of the authorities, warned Musk.

in the meantime, the system will operate “in the shadow” to collect information about when you should have avoided an accident or when it could have caused if you were completely in control.

Musk expressed hope that one day Tesla will be able to impress the regulators with a number of statistically significant data, that demonstrate that the driving autonomously could prevent crashes and save lives.

“Then we’re at a point where we can allow that into action,” said Musk

last month, the united States unveiled a new regulatory framework, before the rapid rise of technology autoconducción vehicle, only a few days after Uber announced its first taxis without a driver.

The system of Tesla made that raised questions about its technology after two fatal accidents, one in January in the north of China and another in Florida (southeast united States) in may.

In September, an electric car of Tesla collided with a tourist bus on a highway in the north of Germany. The driver, who was injured of levity, he said that he had activated the autopilot system.