Automaker Tesla Now Starts Gathering Vehicle Video Data To Promote Their Self-Driving Technology
The competition to become the first one to drive its fully self-driving vehicles on public road has been on a trend right now for car manufacturers. Now, Tesla has tweaked its data sharing policy to make it easier for them to gather data.
According to Engadget, the real-world data collected from existing Tesla electric vehicles is extremely necessary to teach the vehicles about the signals. As part of the company's most recent Autopilot update, Tesla has not only dispensed new and improved features but also made minor changes to their data sharing policies.
It now mentions that the automaker wants to accelerate the process of making self-driving vehicles a reality by collecting short video clips from all-electric car's external cameras. The videos collected from Tesla owners will provide the company access to footage that enables the AI-powered system to learn how to recognize things like street signs, lane lines and traffic light positions.
Tesla has rebuffed any worries about everyone's vehicle privacy. It specifies that short videos collected would be separated from their vehicle's identification number, which means that no one will be able to track rides back to their homes. Tesla also mentioned that intruders and anyone else can not search the video library for clips associated with any particular vehicle.
According to Inverse, there is no current information on how Tesla plans to transmit videos collected by a particular vehicle back to their data centers to teach the Autopilot how to drive autonomously. All the company wants to get is the video, making it as a first step to the first self-driving vehicles to be designed.
Tesla Model 3 packs all the necessary self-driving hardware such as 8 camera, forward-looking radar, and all-around ultrasonic sensors that will enable Tesla to gather a huge treasure trove of video data. Stay tuned for more updates as the company gathers data from vehicles to achieve the all-self-driving vehicles in the future.