Tesla is famous for leading automatic driving, but it is not the only car brand to develop this technology, nor is it the first to do so. Some companies are testing autonomous vehicles, focusing on freight and autonomous taxis. Companies such as cruise, waymo, and zoox have been licensed by DMV to test autonomous vehicles in California.
On the other hand, LYFT has completed more than 100000 self driving tours and operates in the metropolises of Phoenix, Las Vegas and Miami.
Tesla said that all new Tesla cars are equipped with the necessary hardware and software for fully automatic driving (FSD). The company guarantees that its FSD can handle short and long rides without any driver action. In fact, the software is in the initial testing stage, which requires the driver to be ready to intervene at any time, and the child has some problems. According to CNN, users complain that the software is far from ready for unsupervised driving. In 2021, NHTSA conducted a formal investigation on the accidents involving emergency vehicles of Tesla FSD since 2018.
By 2022, all new vehicles - electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles or gasoline vehicles - will be equipped with an auxiliary function of semi-automatic driving, most of which include automatic braking or pedestrian and bicycle detection, blind spot monitoring, cruise control and lane change assistance. Some brands, such as Mercedes Benz -- its approved drive pilot system -- and BMW -- are committed to providing Level 3 by 2025 -- are rapidly entering the future of autonomous driving. However, since Tesla launched FSD in october2020, according to inverse, the company is considered a leader in this field. At the same time, exactly ten years before Tesla launched FSD, an Audi TTS drove on the Famous Pike peak racetrack in Colorado -- and no one was driving.
Independent climbing of Audi TTS pike peak
On november18,2010, Audi announced that the Audi autonomous TTS Parker peak research vehicle has achieved its goal. The car -- developed by Audi in collaboration with researchers from Stanford University, the Volkswagen Group electronic research laboratory and Oracle -- climbed a thorny mountain path, where it is known to challenge the world's best drivers.
In the case of automatic driving, the Audi TTS has passed the 12.42 mile track and has been forever commemorated in the Audi video. Representatives of pike peak international climbing race, the second oldest in the United States, attended the meeting to prove that Audi has completed the challenging climbing process. It took Audi 27 minutes to complete the mountain road, including the last dirt road. No driver has ever completed the track in 10 minutes.
Audi world introduced the autonomous driving technology behind this ride in detail. Audi TTS is equipped with a 2.0 turbocharged injection engine and a six speed dual clutch transmission, all of which are converted into electronic control. In addition, a new electric power steering system with direct line control has been installed. The sensors were installed on Audi cars and special software was designed for them, which changed the history of automatic driving forever.
Now, all new Audi cars are equipped with some form of semi-automatic driving assistance technology. In addition, it should be noted that this is not the first time for Audi to drive in pike peak, nor will it be the last time.