tesla released they didn't release it they announced it tesla announced their
own full self-driving chip
don't look at me that's pretty good
so tesla had this thing called the autonomy investor day and the main thing
was the full self-driving chip aka fsd
all right this is their own chip this is their own chip originally they or they
have been using NVIDIA for their self-driving chips as you know not
anymore not anymore later see you later NVIDIA so the fsd chip according to elon
musk it's the best chip in the world objectively trillions of operations it's
just if you are if you are an objective you know that it's the best okay so this
chip is going to be in all new teslas going forward you can drop it into old
tesla's as an upgrade because i saw that you would have to pay for the upgrade
it's unknown there are tweets from elon saying everyone's going to get the
upgrade and as we've seen tweets from elon
could mean anything in real life so so this new chip the new chip hardware
level three what is that gonna let people do what it'll let you do james is
have full self driving so they've had an option on their site right now to order
cards that say full self driving they had that for
but this is a different full self driving okay this time it's real you got
full self driving then you got fuller self driving okay overflowing yeah
what it sounds like is that the fsd chip will give you the ability to have level
five autonomy by by mid 2020 by mid 2020
yeah tesla drivers will have level 5 autonomy with no geo fencing which
presumably means that the car can just drive
without really needing to have gps or maps it just will sense things from a
technical perspective it'll have no geo fencing from a regulatory perspective it
could i doubt very much that by mid 2020
you'll be able to drive this thing in self-driving mode anywhere in the us hey
wherever you want to go don't doubt okay he makes these awesome claims that
make you excited but my guess would be if it hits 2020 at all it would be the
end of 2020 in december you'll be able to be in nevada and nevada alone because
they're
and then as soon as you cross the border you got to be driving it uh james you
know that we get in trouble from tesla uh fans they think we're tesla haters i
love tesla it doesn't doesn't sound like it to me
well i did sell my stock
so like let's talk a little bit more about this chip okay so we know what we're talking about so
uh it's built by samsung in in texas so not in korea keeping it
local very cool and the pcb the the actual
board itself contains two duplicate systems okay everything's bigger in
texas um so that means that if errors or
damage on one chip is detected the other one can uh take over and you know that
redundancy allows for that now the problem is that it's a dual chip system
and tesla in their presentation compared it to NVIDIA's xavier system which is a
single chip setup and NVIDIA didn't like this they said that the NVIDIA one was
was 21 tops but it's actually 30 tops according to NVIDIA's yes retaliatory
retaliatory blog post yeah clarifying NVIDIA came
out swinging what NVIDIA said that tesla should have done instead of comparing it
to the xavier which is you know 30 tops instead of 21 they
should have compared it to the drive agx
pegasus system which is a two chip system and it's capable of 320 tops
compared to tesla's 144. the problem is
that NVIDIA's system also has a TDP of
500 watts whereas tesla's new fsd chip
has 100 watts oh very low they didn't mention that on their blog they didn't
no they didn't want they were saying it would be more apples to apples comparison yeah tops wise or at least
die ones yeah yeah so one of the more bold claims that uh elon made during the
event was that tesla will launch an autonomous taxi service
and this will be up also by next year well obviously you need to have full
self-driving before you can have the full self-driving taxi service
there's no way that they're gonna launch the same day yeah there's gonna be a few
months at least and even a few months i mean i feel like
there's gonna be some troubleshooting if i own a tesla i can be at work like i am
right now and my car is just off somewhere gallivanting you can get to
work you can be like thanks a lot tesla i love you so much go give me some money
right when you get to the building you just toggle it on your app to say now you're part of the network yep and then
you can i guess see where it is on the map hopefully like somebody didn't call your
car from you know two cities over i wonder if you have to approve the riders
like when you're an uber driver yeah you see someone else like hey they've got a
good rating maybe you could have cameras in the in the cab like their
profile come up they're like you're not getting my car stinky
someone's like yeah i'm looking for a ride dude no no no no i also read that
uh tesla is gonna be taking a cut
even if you own the car and it's your car and it's out there right being a
taxi tesla gets 25 to 30 percent i mean
who cares if it's a 25 to 30 cut if you could make 30 000 a year that's what he
said with a model three you can make 30 000 a year well yeah or that's the
example you used model three presumably if uh there's it's gonna be like uber
where there's insurance or same with airbnb if someone gets in my car and gets blood all over the seat or
something like that right i would expect that that's gonna be covered by tesla
that's a good point i didn't know and i will pay for that right i will pay tesla
to take care of that stuff you wait i would love to pay tesla to take care of
that stuff for me oh that's what the cut is for that's what i mean i see yes
so musk says that this service will have 1 million cars on the road so that would
be all the cars that they've shipped so far well they hit 300 000 in 2018 so we
don't know exactly all the cars that they make over the next year you know
what they probably will have a million cars on the road by the time this launches really well if it takes them
five years to launch it by the time this launches so partially
because of the luxuries that are being afforded to you by the full self-driving
chip and partially because of the money you could make by renting out your car
as a robo taxi musk said during the stream that it's financially insane for
someone to buy anything other than a tesla right now
they will be like owning a horse in three years i mean fine if you're an a
horse but you should go into it with that expectation next year and it seems like three years
is the benchmark that he puts forward for going to mars full self driving
everything he wants to do meanwhile other experts are saying that
fully autonomous cars could be as much as 10 years away
so i mean here's a question from this should we fault him for
trying to push the industry forward in in such an intense way as he does should
we see these claims and and be like ah musk you don't know what you're talking
about or should we be like that man's a visionary i want to marry
him i would say a bit of both i think uh well do i think does he mean it when he
makes these dates does he actually believe he'll hit those targets i think
they're super optimistic i think if we lived in a world where everything goes
right and he doesn't hit any unforeseen engineering or regulatory snags then
maybe we could make those dates if everything lined up they could probably
make it but that just won't happen so yeah at this point investors and the
public large know to take those dates with a grain of salt bloomberg has this
very helpful graphic of all of the promises that elon musk has made in
regards to his various ventures and uh it's very interesting to see to go down
the list and see which ones were two years late three months late canceled 10
days late he has made deadlines before he can do it which ones any of that i
care about model 3 release date announcement he hit it
on schedule and i should say wait wait wait wait the announcement was on
schedule yep but i should say
but i should say that the full self-driving chip the fsd chip is on
schedule the announcement of that so uh he said six months ago that it would
come out today or yesterday and they hit that so if they can hit that
they can hit anything going to mars baby we're going to mars let's go
i think that should just be the end of the show let's go
wow we're here already oh this is mars i
can't breathe so deadlines aside though this is an exciting announcement i mean
it has a lower TDP and higher performance than it appears anything on
the market today correct me if i'm wrong people in the comments and also people
in the comments you can let us know would you rent out
your tesla vehicle to complete strangers to
use as a robo taxi would you would i lend out my car for someone else to use
my current car no because i don't want them driving it hard and ruining it but
they don't have to drive that car that's a good point so i think uh i think i
would i definitely would i yeah i'm buying one
yeah i'm gonna do that i feel like i would
do it once as a test and then that's stupid
you get one good person or one bad person that doesn't inform the future
i don't want to i'm not screwing around here all right people who aren't stupid
hit us up in the comments would you let strangers put their gross greasy or sexy
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