{"id":1672888,"date":"2022-10-04T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672888"},"modified":"2022-10-04T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T23:51:04","slug":"tesla-will-remove-more-vehicle-sensors-amid-autopilot-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tesla-will-remove-more-vehicle-sensors-amid-autopilot-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla will remove more vehicle sensors amid Autopilot scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftesla-will-remove-more-vehicle-sensors-amid-autopilot-scrutiny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1672888&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Hyunjoo Jin<\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) \u2013     Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it will remove ultrasonic sensors from its vehicles starting this month, as it moves ahead with using only cameras in its safety and driver-assistant features.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Tesla vehicles now have 12 ultrasonic sensors on the front and rear bumpers, and short-range sound sensors are mainly used in parking applications and to detect close objects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll save them a few dollars. I mean those things are pretty cheap,\u201d Guidehouse Insights analyst Sam Abuelsamid said, referring to ultrasonic sensors. \u201cIt\u2019ll also save them some chips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tesla last year started dropping radar sensors amid a chip shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Elon Musk has said Tesla can achieve full autonomy with cameras only, but he has missed his targets to roll out self-driving taxis which require no drivers. <\/p>\n<p>The automaker faces growing regulatory, legal and public scrutiny over its Autopilot system following crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla said it will remove ultrasonic sensors from the Model 3 and Model Y globally over the next few months, followed by the Model S and Model X in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The transition will temporarily limit automated parking features, but not affect crash safety ratings, Tesla noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt remains to be seen whether this will be \u2018two steps forward and one step backward\u2019 or the other way around,\u201d said Raj Rajkumar, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n<p>While self-driving tech firms and automakers use multiple sensors like expensive lidars, Tesla relies only on cameras and artificial intelligence to help a vehicle recognize the environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is how well the cameras can see nearby the car, which sometimes can be limited,\u201d said Professor Philip Koopman of Carnegie Mellon University.   <\/p>\n<p>A widely followed Tesla researcher known only as \u201cGreen\u201d on Twitter tweeted on Tuesday that ultrasonic sensors are also used in Autopilot as a \u201cfail-safe\u201d feature for changing lanes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cImpact on safety of autopilot is likely small. Now impact of safety of manual parking on the other hand might be big,\u201d he said, adding that parking chimes help people avoid hitting walls and other obstacles.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Richard Chang)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/tesla-will-remove-more\/attachment\/file-photo-a-tesla-logo-on-a-model-s-is\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9316B-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9316B-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) \u2013 Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it will remove ultrasonic sensors from its vehicles starting this month, as it moves ahead with using only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}