Tesla patents ‘clever math trick’ for HW3, but nothing points to delivering promised self-driving
Tesla has published a new patent that describes a way to squeeze more performance out of its aging HW3 self-driving computers. While the technology is interesting, nothing points to it actually enabling Tesla to deliver on its long-standing promise of unsupervised self-driving on HW3 vehicles.
In 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles produced thereafter would become capable of “Full Self-Driving” — at one point, CEO Elon Musk even specified “level 5 self-driving,” which means capable of driving anywhere, anytime, under any condition.
We are approaching a decade since that promise, and it’s nowhere close to being fulfilled.
In fact, it looks like Tesla is doing everything it can to not fulfill its promise to HW3 owners.