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In 2017, in de VS, heeft Tesla nul-komma-nul autonoom gereden kilometers (level 4/5, experimenteel) gerapporteerd aan de autoriteiten (DMV in California).

Ter vergelijking: GM's autonome Bolts reden 125000 mijl, Waymo's vloot reed 350000 mijl...

Ter vergelijking: Tesla reed met level 2 autonoom 1,3 miljard mijlen vooraleer ze in nov 2016 naar de enhanced autopilot hardware overstapten. Die is vandaag ca. even goed als de oude (qua stand software). Maar zal in de toekomst level 4 worden op de drie modellen voor diegene die deze hardware-optie genomen hadden, en gaan nemen.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/13/tesla...iving-program/

Tesla has now 1.3 billion miles of Autopilot data going into its new self-driving program

Fred Lambert

- Nov. 13th 2016

As new vehicles are coming off the assembly in Fremont right now, Tesla is making the transition from its first generation Autopilot hardware to its second generation hardware in order to gradually enable level 3 and 4 autonomous driving, and eventually fully self-driving capability, according to the automaker.

As we discussed in the past, the industry is skeptical of Tesla’s ability to deliver a fully self-driving level 5 system with its new hardware suite, but there’s a reason Tesla is confident in its ability to deliver such a system. The reason is data.

Electrek has learned that Tesla has now accumulated 1.3 billion miles of Autopilot data from its first generation sensor suite and “nearly all of it” is useful to the second generation Autopilot, according to the company.
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We reported last month that Tesla’s fleet has reached 3 billion miles driven and Tesla confirmed to Electrek last week that 1.3 billion of those miles were driven by Tesla vehicles with Autopilot hardware.

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En waar is Apple eigenlijk?

Hebben blijkbaar nieuw patent volgens die link:

A new Apple patent hints that its self-driving cars might minimize map usage

Peter Newman
Dec. 27, 2017, 10:42 AM

Apple has filed a patent for an autonomous navigation system for vehicles that could minimize the role that maps would play in a self-driving car, reports CNBC.

The patent details how Apple's system would leverage its AI capabilities and vehicle sensors to let a car navigate a road without referring to any external data sources, potentially heralding a marked departure from many other companies competing to develop self-driving vehicle systems.

Apple is looking to leverage its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems as well as its visual processing expertise — developed initially to improve the iPhone — to offer a different approach to the autonomous car than many other aspirants. Specifically, Apple wants to allow a self-driving car to navigate without needing to reference maps that are either stored locally or downloaded to the car from the internet. This means that the car would use its built-in sensors to continuously create a new virtual model of the world that the car is navigating through, drawing just from those sensors rather than using any external or pre-existing data source as a reference.

This approach contrasts with other companies like GM and Uber that are looking to test and eventually deploy self-driving vehicles. In real-world tests so far, Uber's autonomous vehicles have been limited to pre-mapped areas where cars' built-in computers can take data from LiDAR sensors and compare it to known reference points. GM's Super Cruise semi-autonomous system — available on some high-end Cadillacs — can similarly only operate on select limited-access highways that the automaker has already mapped.

Eschewing reliance on maps can help Apple create a more versatile autonomous car system, but it poses a larger technical and computational hurdle. Using existing maps eases the burden on a car's computer by allowing it to reference that data and compare its sensor data to it, rather than continuously re-creating the virtual model of the driving environment from scratch as the car moves along the road. But it also means that cars could potentially be limited in terms of where they can drive, confined to only areas that the manufacturer or a partner has mapped. Most autonomous car tests have used minivans or SUVs that have the space to house all of the computer hardware necessary for the demands of self-driving systems, but Apple could bring its AI knowledge and chipmaking expertise to bear on this challenge to enable the system described in the patent.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has characterized the development of autonomous cars as an AI project first and foremost. If the company can create capable driving AI that doesn't need to reference mapping data, and computing systems that can house it within vehicles, it could potentially make up ground on competitors who have been working on self-driving cars for far longer.
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Navigant Research assessed all the self-driving-car players and released a leadership grid in April showing who is most poised to bring Level 2, Level 3, and Level 4 self-driving cars to market in the next decade.

Companies on the Leadership Grid were assessed on 10 criteria: vision; go-to-market strategy; partners; production strategy; technology; product capability; sales, marketing & distribution; product quality and reliability; product portfolio; staying power. The companies were then given an overall score out of 100 based on their performance in each category.

The leadership is bound to change next year as companies work to bolster their position in the space, but scroll down to see the top contenders this year:

https://www.businessinsider.nl/the-c...onal=true&r=US

Raar. Is dat dezelfde Navigant Research als in draadstarter?