Ever since the task master stepped into the auto industry its time for some massive disruption. Elon musk has disrupted the banking industry with Paypal, aerospace industry with SpaceX, and the auto industry with Tesla. He has already created quite a stir in by pushing every notable car company to introduce an electric car. Now he has set to disrupt many other with autonomous cars.
This is his announcement about the autopilot feature in his flagship model S in October 2014. What no one except may be this post guessed was what he was actually announcing. It was a crowd-sourced data collection mechanism for autonomous driving.
Source: Tesla motors
Approximately a year later Tesla motors have announced the result of such an action.
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Since all the cars are connected to the internet all the time, the data can be collected and uploaded to the central server. The engineers can then analyze the data and simulate driving conditions to test the viability of the system in place. The data collected by one car can then be distributed to all the cars. This approach alone can transform the data collection tasks for autonomous driving quickly and easily.
Tesla can now add 1 million miles of new data every day and uses machine learning to help the car choose what action it must perform.
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