Tesla’s Busy With a Bigger and Better Brain For All Their Models

The news out of Tesla’s corner is coming quick and fast. The body and build are on point for the Musk group, but now it’s time to put work into the brain.

The promise for self-driving cars has been made many moons ago. Volvo, Tesla, and many other leading makes and brands are all hard at work trying to get an innovative idea into practice.

Mostly, there has only been prototypes and concepts, with nothing really doing the proper job as good as a human being. Let face facts here, it’s hard to imitate a human’s behaviour. Nevertheless, AI (Artificial intelligence) is improving with each day turning over, and we could probably see a full working day-to-day autonomous car sooner rather than later.

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Emulating A Human’s Behaviour

"The building block of a human nervous system is a neuron and millions of them form a neural network in the body’s central nervous system. To make autonomous cars a reality, computer scientists need to create artificial neural networks (ANNs) that can do the same job as a human’s biological neural network."

That’s a mouthful for those who don’t understand anything about a human’s nervous system and the body’s central nervous system. In a nutshell, the brain tells the body what to do. So when your brain wants to take action the body reacts to your thoughts.

Now, this is exactly what Tesla’s been working on. How to get the car to react like a person’s sitting behind the wheel.

Giving The Tesla Two Eyes

Keep your eyes on the road. That is the saying that saves the day and shows you the way to ensure you arrive alive. This is what needs to be accomplished by Elon Musk and his team of innovators.

"An autonomous car needs is the ability to see, and this is where opinions in the industry are split. Until recently, conventional wisdom had it that as well as the cameras, radars and ultrasonic sensors cars already have for cruise control and advanced driver assistance systems, lidar (light detection and ranging) is essential. Lidar is like high-definition radar, using laser light instead of radio waves to scan a scene and create an accurate HD image of it."

This has made it difficult and has caused many stops and restarts. Like mentioned by the Tesla men and by AUTOCAR, it’s trying to teach the intelligence to the car that’s the real nightmare.

"Tesla reasons that no human is equipped with laser projectors for eyes and that the secret lies in better understanding the way neural networks identify objects and how to teach them. Whereas a human can identify an object from a single image at a glance, what the computer sees is a matrix of numbers identifying the location and brightness of each pixel in an image.The neural network needs thousands of images to learn the identity of an object, each one labelled to identify it in any situation. Tesla says no chip has yet been produced specifically with neural networking and autonomous driving in mind, so it has spent the past three years designing one."

They are well on their way

Tesla’s not far from achieving what they want from autonomous vehicles. Retro-fitting the computer box to 2019 Tesla Models plus all the image they’ve been collecting, will help them achieve self-driving cars, maybe even ahead of their counterparts in the game.

Technology is moving too fast and it’s only a matter of time before we have no driver in a Uber, fetching us from the party.