Self-driving vehicles will play a crucial role in improving transportation safety and
accelerating the world’s transition to a sustainable future.
Tesla has announced that all Tesla vehicles produced in their factory – including Model
3 – will have the hardware needed for full self-driving capability at a safety level
substantially greater than that of a human driver.
Eight surround cameras provide 360 degree visibility around the car at up to 250 meters
of range.
Twelve updated ultrasonic sensors complement this vision, allowing for detection of both
hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the prior system.
A forward-facing radar with enhanced processing provides additional data about the world on
a redundant wavelength, capable of seeing through heavy rain, fog, dust and even the
car ahead.
To make sense of all of this data, a new onboard computer with more than 40 times the computing
power of the previous generation runs the new Tesla-developed neural net for vision,
sonar and radar processing software.
Together, this system provides a view of the world that a driver alone cannot access, seeing
in every direction simultaneously and on wavelengths that go far beyond the human senses.