An August 2021 study conducted by Missy Cummings et al. found three Tesla Model 3 cars exhibited "significant between and within vehicle variation on a numbe…
An August 2021 study conducted by Missy Cummings et al. found three Tesla Model 3 cars exhibited "significant between and within vehicle variation on a number of metrics related to driver monitoring, alerting, and safe operation of the underlying autonomy... suggest[ing] that the performance of the underlying artificial intelligence and computer vision systems was extremely variable."
Event text from Wikipedia: “Tesla Autopilot” (linked citation above)
In August 2021, the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a preliminary evaluation (PE) designated PE 21-020 and released a list of eleven crash…
In August 2021, the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened a preliminary evaluation (PE) designated PE 21-020 and released a list of eleven crashes involving Tesla vehicles striking stationary emergency vehicles; in each instance, NHTSA confirmed that Autopilot or Traffic Aware Cruise Control were active during the approach to the crashes.
Event text from Wikipedia: “Tesla Autopilot” (linked citation above)
NHTSA sent a request for information relating to PE 21-020 to Tesla's director of field quality in August 2021.
Event text from Wikipedia: “Tesla Autopilot” (linked citation above)
The program was expected to start in August 2021 and the course was to last 14 weeks.
Event text from Wikipedia: “Gigafactory Texas” (linked citation above)
The first fully completed Tesla Model Y rolled off the line at Giga Texas in the last week of August 2021 under trial production.
Event text from Wikipedia: “Gigafactory Texas” (linked citation above)
For comparison, according to Nvidia, in August 2021, the (pre-Dojo) Tesla AI-training center used 720 nodes, each with eight Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs for…
For comparison, according to Nvidia, in August 2021, the (pre-Dojo) Tesla AI-training center used 720 nodes, each with eight Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPUs for 5,760 GPUs in total, providing up to 1.8 exaflops of performance.
Event text from Wikipedia: “Tesla Dojo” (linked citation above)