Elon Musk hinted at working on AI on Tesla bot Android the other day. The real reason Tesla is laying off workers, Panasonic has started manufacturing 4680 batteries, phantom braking is becoming a big problem.
Elon confirms Tesla will eventually improve its service Elon Musk has delayed the 2023 edition of Tesla’s AI Day, but he’s doing it for a good reason, featuring a working prototype of his Optimus humanoid robot.
The final AI day on 19th August 2021 was by far the most information dense presentation we’ve ever seen from the Tesla crew, it wasn’t watered down for public consumption, it was a high level discussion of what Tesla’s full self really looks like Does the driving system appear to be working? Camera Input in Vector Space for Neural Networks It was also the day we first saw the prototype of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer with Thor.
Quite a bit of technical explanation and then Elon pulled another thing out of the Steve Jobs playbook moment and dropped a humanoid robot well on us he actually showed us a guy that looked like a robot but the main thing was that Tesla was in his Was working on Android serious about not making autonomy a tech buzzword.
This was purely conceptual and hypothetical as the product didn’t actually exist yet, but the general idea seemed to be that Tesla could pick up parts like robotic actuators and batteries from their vehicles and fsd computers and then labor related tasks. Repurpose your existing Artificial Intelligence systems to focus.
But for AI Day Part 2, Tesla may have a working prototype of its Optimus robot ready to go. Asked whether the prototype was the sleek black and white displayed at the Cyber Rodeo in Texas, Elon didn’t elaborate further. Will it be something like a mock-up, Elon said no, which means it will probably be Illing’s first find, maybe something that c3po looked like before.
When Anakin was still building him in his mother’s shed, aside from being a living but still functional robot with exposed parts everywhere, we didn’t really know what Elon was. Besides the promise of lots of good updates maybe their quotes for this event so we will hear about the same topics as last year’s event mainly fsd and dojo as we already know from last year these systems are tesla How should engineers work?
Hopefully able to jump straight into explaining the progress achieved during this time with new and more defined timelines, our two biggest questions at the event will be, can Tesla achieve Level 4 autonomy within the next year As claimed by Elon Musk and Tesla has started using. , If not, how soon will Dojo be ready to train its neural network? We were teased that Dojo was the first super to crack the AXA scale and pay off the computer.
An improvement on one exaflop of computing power but that record was achieved a few days ago by a different computer called Frontier built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory which basically means the computer could perform 1 billion billion operations per second, Tesla The bot implies that Tesla will work on developing this labor robot into a much wider range.
Potentially huge steps can be taken towards solving artificial general intelligence which is like creating a computer brain that can function side by side with the human brain when it comes to complex tasks like learning and problem solving. Like last year, the purpose of Tesla AI Day isn’t to show off new products or advertise to consumers.
If they’re lucky it’s about Tesla showing its development process to other industry insiders and hopefully impressing enough hardcore AI developers to bring new talent onto the Tesla AI team. Trying to weed out the best and brightest with a level playing field.
Stay tuned for our coverage of AI Day 2022, when we’ll again do our best to distill extremely technical jargon with relative ease. Understand terms and you can join one of our live watch parties in the description below in our discord server link Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently caused a stir when a leak was sent to Tesla executives The email revealed that the company would reduce the workforce by 10 percent.
Elon also said that he was feeling very bad about the economy, apparently this required some explanation as the first message was very severe and soon after the original message Elon sent a follow-up to all employees. In a thank you email, the CEO clarified that there will be a reduction in workforce and an accompanying hiring freeze among salaried employees.
Not the hourly workers who assemble vehicles and key components like battery packs. In fact he mentioned that hiring for hourly workers will continue, obviously there is a lot going on here, so we have to keep in mind that Tesla is just two years away from phenomenal growth, the company straight up from April 2020 Is.
It’s understandable that during good times when money is literally pouring in like a tsunami wave they might get away with hiring new employees. Tesla currently employs around 100 000 people worldwide. And given the pandemic situation, the company has hired people for dedicated remote work who initially did not have space in the Tesla office.
Very different place economically and Tesla hit its first major hurdle in two years. The Giga Shanghai shutdown was a big blow to the company’s productivity and the macroeconomic environment in the United States isn’t looking great. The whole market started April with Tesla. Have-up rock bottom stocks are particularly hard hit. Some think the market boom has already begun.
Others will tell you the bottom is yet to come. It seems that Elon sticks to the more skeptical side of the equation and fears that a more prolonged downturn will occur, so he’s working to shore up the company in case things turn bad. An easy way to start is to eliminate remote workers, some would call this too harsh on Elon’s part but if you have to thin the herd it is a reasonable way to do it if people at least wear the pants the company is wearing Are not dedicated enough to and come to the office.
According to Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Delaney, this is a very common thing for any company to do, especially when the market is expected to collapse and the workforce among salaried employees is shrinking by less than 10 per year. That would save nearly a billion dollars, ultimately Tesla executives have a responsibility and that is.
His company’s financial well-being is right from the same business playbook as every other company. Tesla isn’t unique in doing this kind of thing and cashing in, eliminating employee inefficiency to offset potential lean times.
Panasonic has announced that their first production sample of the 4680 battery from a pilot line in Japan has been sent to Tesla for approval, should Panasonic plan full mass production of the cell next year. Panasonic is now on track to begin full-scale manufacturing of the new Tesla cell in March of 2023.
It is the start of the company’s next fiscal year that the first wave of production will be at the plant in Wakayama Japan but will eventually be moved to a North American plant whose location has yet to be decided, but we have a strong indication that as far as We know Panasonic will be manufacturing the 4680 cell specifically for Tesla, so it will be relatively close to the two gig Texas in Kansas or Oklahoma.
So they’re clearly excited as Tesla’s production continues to rise at a rapid pace, Tesla has been ordered to respond to NHTSA’s investigation regarding the growing number of Phantom braking in a 14-page letter dated May 2022. The letter lays out the complaints to the agency, but the recently published NHTSA asks several questions regarding the 758 Phantom braking complaints Tesla has been forced to respond to by June 20.
There are just pages and pages of basically unreadable jargon, but the gist of it is that the rate of phantom braking complaints has actually accelerated over the past few months and now the agency is requesting all documents and telemetry data from all model year 2021 models. Has been And the 2022 Tesla Model 3s and ys in the United States that could be about a million cars will certainly be pure vision vehicles that were manufactured without radar sensors for autopilot.
According to the very strongly worded letter, the NHDSA may take legal action against Tesla. If they fail to submit the requested documents by the due date, with a maximum fine of approximately $115 million in total, it doesn’t look like Tesla has much of a choice, but until Elon’s new team of street fighting lawyers takes a look at it I can’t do anything about the information NHTSA is getting.
It should be fun to watch him hand it over It’s no secret that Tesla’s service department has always been a thorn in the side. On the side of an otherwise great company they make an excellent product and under ideal conditions an electric car rarely needs maintenance but sometimes things go wrong and this is where Tesla traditionally stands apart has gone.
For example I’ve had my Tesla for four years and only had one major issue when the power converter in my vehicle stopped working and needed a replacement part, it had to be shipped a week because our Had none in Canada but took about three weeks luckily I was given a Model S loaner vehicle so I didn’t mind the three week upgrade.
But according to Elon Musk it was not ideal, he is working to change that for customers in North America. Elon tweeted over the weekend that his goal is for two-thirds of owners in Canada and the United States to experience same-day service without weight. Elon didn’t specify how he’s going to achieve that standard.
Number of service centers in North America Tesla’s website indicates that there are currently 174 service centers operating in North America including 19 in Canada and 155 in the United States. Another way to improve service is to increase the mobile service fleet. Tesla’s Mobile Rangers are an underrated and under-appreciated part of Tesla’s service model and can handle the vast majority of all owner-requested repairs from the convenience of your home.
Panasonic has announced that their first production sample of the 4680 battery from a pilot line in Japan has been sent to Tesla for approval, should Panasonic plan full mass production of the cell next year. Panasonic is now on track to begin full-scale manufacturing of the new Tesla cell in March of 2023.
It is the start of the company’s next fiscal year that the first wave of production will be at the plant in Wakayama Japan but will eventually be moved to a North American plant whose location has yet to be decided, but we have a strong indication that as far as We know Panasonic will be manufacturing the 4680 cell specifically for Tesla, so it will be relatively close to the two giga Texas in Kansas or Oklahoma.
So they’re clearly excited as Tesla’s production continues to rise at a rapid pace, Tesla has been ordered to respond to NHTSA’s investigation regarding the growing number of Phantom braking in a 14-page letter dated May 2022. The letter lays out the complaints to the agency, but the recently published NHTSA asks several questions regarding the 758 Phantom braking complaints Tesla has been forced to respond to by June 20.
There are just pages and pages of basically unreadable jargon, but the gist of it is that the rate of phantom braking complaints has actually accelerated over the past few months and now the agency is requesting all documents and telemetry data from all model year 2021 models. Has been And the 2022 Tesla Model 3s and ys in the United States that could be about a million cars will certainly be pure vision vehicles that were manufactured without radar sensors for autopilot.
According to the very strongly worded letter, the NHDSA may take legal action against Tesla. If they fail to submit the requested documents by the due date, with a maximum fine of approximately $115 million in total, it doesn’t look like Tesla has much of a choice, but until Elon’s new team of street fighting lawyers takes a look at it I can’t do anything about the information NHTSA is getting.
It should be fun to watch him hand it over It’s no secret that Tesla’s service department has always been a thorn in the side. On the side of an otherwise great company they make an excellent product and under ideal conditions an electric car rarely needs maintenance but sometimes things go wrong and this is where Tesla traditionally stands apart has gone.
For example I’ve had my Tesla for four years and only had one major issue when the power converter in my vehicle stopped working and needed a replacement part, it had to be shipped a week because our Had none in Canada but took about three weeks luckily I was given a Model S loaner vehicle so I didn’t mind the three week upgrade.
But according to Elon Musk it was not ideal, he is working to change that for customers in North America. Elon tweeted over the weekend that his goal is for two-thirds of owners in Canada and the United States to experience same-day service without weight. Elon didn’t specify how he’s going to achieve that standard.
Number of service centers in North America Tesla’s website indicates that there are currently 174 service centers operating in North America including 19 in Canada and 155 in the United States. Another way to improve service is to increase the mobile service fleet. Tesla’s Mobile Rangers are an underrated and under-appreciated part of Tesla’s service model and can handle the vast majority of all owner-requested repairs from the convenience of your home.