With so many carmakers working on self-driving technology, there's no denying that autonomous cars are the future. But while some automakers are barely perfecting semi-autonomous cars, others are on the brink of introducing reliable autonomous systems. Tesla's Autopilot feature is already pretty advanced, but it seems that Elon Musk has an even better system in the works. It's called Dojo and we don't know much about it, but Musk claims that it could make the difference.
What is Tesla's Project Dojo?
Tesla confirmed the existence of Dojo at its Autonomy Day event earlier in 2019.
"We do have a major program at Tesla which we don’t have enough time to talk about today called Dojo. That’s a super powerful training computer. The goal of Dojo will be to be able to take in vast amounts of data and train at a video level and do unsupervised massive training of vast amounts of video with the Dojo program – or Dojo computer," Elon Musk told people in the audience.
When asked about the Dojo program on Twitter, Musk declined to reveal actual information, but he did hint that it could be a game-changer.
So what makes the Dojo computer different you ask?
Well, it's all in the way it processes information about the road ahead. Tesla's current Autopilot system uses image frame processing for its network, which prevents the neural net system from being very accurate. The Autopilot works better than most autonomous systems out there, but it still has to be supervised by the driver in order to prevent errors (and eventual accidents).
Of course, this is all speculation until Tesla introduces a demo car, and this won't happen until 2020, but Elon Musk might be closer than anyone else to perfecting a fully autonomous system for production cars.
Further Reading
Read our full review on the Tesla Model S.
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Read our full review on the 2018 Tesla Model 3.