Comment by taneq
9 years ago
I know it's popular to bash on Tesla's current challenges with their Autopilot software, but I think it's a bit unfair to expect them to be back in front of the pack just yet. They had their big breakup with MobilEye in, what, September last year? Nine months is pretty quick to go from total reliance on a vendor package to a reasonably functional fully in-house system.
Can you explain the 'back' part of expect them to be back in front of the pack ?
As far as I know they've never been in the front of the pack.
With AP1 they were the only company that had anything approaching level 2/3 in a publicly available production vehicle. Google might have been ahead of them but it's hard to tell since all we ever saw were carefully staged demos.
Was it? Weren't things like Distronic+ w/ Steering Assist (and Audi and BMWs equivalents) almost the same thing?
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Actually, they are and have always been in front of the pack.
Tesla had been working on a mobileye replacement for some time before they parted ways.