Tesla's 'autopilot' car project

[Youbetternot]

AutoPilot cars aw yea! PoliSWAG!

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has discussed the company's ambitions to build a self-driving car on more than one occasion, and now he's revealed a bit more about its plans. After reports today about a job listing on the Tesla website for an Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Controls Engineer he spoke to the Financial Times, confirming the company is working on a form of autopilot in-house. Expressing his opinion that fully autonomous cars may be a bit too difficult to achieve right now, he said Tesla "should be able to do 90 per cent of miles driven within three years."

 

Learn more here: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/17/teslas-autopilot-car-project-targets-90-percent-of-miles-driv/

[Wferr]

Tesla is all like "whatever i do what i want" Who cares  if we are banned in texas  lets just make a giant autodriving thing

[Excon]

Tesla is a badass, he does whatever he wants and give 0 fucks about what people say.

[Beskamir]

Elon Musk is awesome! So glad he's rich enough to fund all these things, we need more CEO's like Elon and less CEO's like Jeffrey Bewkes. (I hate Time Warner with a passion for their sub-company WB killing MERP)

[totjup5]

I can't wait until every car drives itself and I can use driving time to play on my pc instead

[Nort]

I can't wait until every car drives itself and I can use driving time to play on my pc instead

 

Yes. Next on the list, wireless networks for nearby cars. Now you can tell the guy who cut you off just how good his mom was in bed last night.

[Ethnod]

He always has some cool idea, always innovating. I wish other companies were like that

[Faceplosion]

Texas in 50 years:

 

HA! Look at those idiots! I'm glad we made the right decision of banning Tesla from our glorious state. Jeffory, bring around the carriage, I'm going to take out my new horse for a test drive!

[JLCitadel]

Texas in 50 years:

 

HA! Look at those idiots! I'm glad we made the right decision of banning Tesla from our glorious state. Jeffory, bring around the carriage, I'm going to take out my new horse for a test drive!

 

rrrmmmmmmkkk brung out mah big ol'e diseal toyater truck tommy m fxn me a get sum dat internet frum mcdonals

[Bicketybam]

Autopilot could be good in cases where the car may detect irregular behavior from the driver, say in a case of emergency, maybe the driver having a heart attack or even just falling asleep at the wheel. 

 

if the car detects that it is not being driven in the normal matter it takes over and keeps itself steady and slows itself down so as to prevent any further injuries eg like having a heart attack and then driving off the road and crashing into a tree, which would probably make survival chances a little lower.