Archive: Tesla News

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 27, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments The silver, long-range Tesla Semi electric truck was recently sighted on a cargo route in Dixon, CA, seemingly taking a brief pitstop between the Fremont factory and the Nevada Gigafactory. The recent Tesla Semi sighting was shared on social media by […]

By evannex.com Posted on April 27, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments Tesla is famous (or in some circles, infamous) for its Autopilot driver assistance system, but it isn’t the only game in town. Other automakers are developing their own autonomy features, and Cadillac has a system on the market: Super Cruise, which debuted […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments The United Kingdom’s AI industry is set to receive a $1.4 billion boost from American tech giants, European telecom companies, a Japanese venture capital fund, and the British government as part of an initiative to close the gap with China in […]

Teslas Autopilot-Chef Jim Keller hat das Unternehmen verlassen. Das bestätigte das Unternehmen heute auf Anfrage von Electrek. Demnach sei der Dienstag der letzte Arbeitstag von Keller bei Tesla gewesen. Er wechselt zu einem nicht näher genanntem Unternehmen, in der Branche der Halbleitertechnik. Gerüchten zufolge soll es Intel sein.

Tesla kommentierte den Abgang wie folgt:

Heute ist Jim Kellers letzter Tag bei Tesla, wo er Niederspannungs-Hardware, Autopilot-Software und Infotainment überwacht hat. Bevor er zu Tesla kam, war Jims Leidenschaft die Mikroprozessortechnik und er tritt nun in ein Unternehmen ein, in dem er sich wieder ausschließlich darauf konzentrieren kann. Wir schätzen seine Beiträge für Tesla und wünschen ihm alles Gute.

Keller trat Tesla vor zwei Jahren als Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering bei. Zuvor war er CPU-Chefentwickler bei AMD. Zwischen 2008 und 2012 arbeitete Keller bei Apple und entwickelte dort den A4- und A5-Chip. Erst kürzlich bestätigte Elon Musk, dass auch Tesla an einem eigenen Computerchip arbeite, wofür Keller verantwortlich sei.

Tesla sagte, dass Pete Bannon, der seit mehr als zwei Jahren im Unternehmen tätig ist, nun die Autopilot-Hardware leiten wird. Andrej Karpathy, Teslas Direktor of AI and Autopilot Vision, wird die Verantwortung für die Autopilot-Software übernehmen.

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments Linked Group Services, a business in North Queensland, Australia, has decided to go fully off-grid through the use of a 100 kWh Tesla Powerpack battery, a series of solar installations, and a microturbine that runs on natural gas. With this, the […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments The president of Chinese EV startup Xpeng Motors recently compared Tesla to Apple, in the way that its emergence is triggering a wave of innovation and competition from rival companies. The statement was expressed by Xpeng Motors vice chairman and president […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments The tunnel designs of The Boring Company were recently critiqued by a tunneling expert from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In a statement to Forbes, tunneling expert and MIT engineering professor Herbert Einstein stated that The Boring Co.’s concept is easier […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments Reports have emerged that Jim Keller, Tesla’s VP for Autopilot Hardware, is leaving the electric car maker and energy company for a job focused on microprocessor engineering at Intel. The announcement about the executive’s departure was confirmed by Tesla on Tuesday, […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 25, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments A Tesla owner is thanking his Model X’s Autopilot system on Tuesday, after his electric car saved him from what could have been a major side collision with a swerving semi truck. The driver of the Model X, Jeremy Visnesky, uploaded […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 25, 2018 Reddit Tweet Share Share Email Comments Facing a diminishing workforce, some farmers in the United States are looking to artificial intelligence as a means to adapt to the changing labor landscape. In Florida, for example, Gary Wishnatzki of Wish Farms is rolling out AI-powered robots that are […]