And to the best of my knowledge, no one has a good generalized solution". In the interview, Musk also covered the most advanced feature in the latest release of the carmaker's Autopilot self-driving software (version 9), Drive on Navigation.
This company sells everything from drive-by-wire vehicles, to retail sensor units, to data solutions, to self-driving software.
Keller's key role at the company would likely have influenced the automaker to drive towards owning its own processor design to more closely align its self-driving software and compute hardware components.
Uber says it made technical changes to its self-driving software to improve detection and tracking of pedestrians and cyclists, and to drive more defensively, as well as the addition of a driver monitoring system, which detects a distracted operator, sounds an audible alert in the cabin and immediately sends a notification to a remote monitoring team for review and escalation.
The company hopes to develop self-driving software that will "improve road safety and help people who can't drive," it wrote on its blog.
It purchased Cruise Automation, a startup developing self-driving software, for over $1 billion.
Tesla's engineers initially test new self-driving software against those records.
Farhad: One thing they're doing with those bazillions: Making self-driving software for cars, according to Bloomberg.
They got a judge to make Tesla update your car's self-driving software to lock the doors and deliver you to the local precinct.
Last year, General Motors purchased Cruise Automation, a self-driving software company, for about a billion dollars, and invested five hundred million dollars in Lyft, the ride service, to create an autonomous vehicle network.
But this is being done anyway to support navigation systems for both cars and smartphones.Mr Urmson says that self-driving software will gain experience as it is tested, just like a human driver.
