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Tesla is fighting back at criticism of its Full Self-Driving features. The EV automaker took to the social media platform X to provide a robust defense of FSD's current state and future. While few would take issue with this point, many consumers have been underwhelmed with FSD's view of autonomy thus far, due to the need for drivers to be attentive. Tesla pushed back, "Although FSD Supervised currently does require your supervision, you will still notice that your commute or long drives are suddenly so much less taxing." Teslarati added context, saying FSD "has a ton of potential." And there...

The ABENICS active ball joint gear allows for extremely precise, high-torque movementYamagata University At its core, this system developed at Yamagata University in Japan uses a "simple" cross-spherical gear paired with a monopole gear to control pitch, roll, and yaw. Essentially, the same full range of movement you'd see in a rotator cuff (the shoulder) of a human. With clever gearing, coupling, and sliding motions, the ABENICS gear is extremely precise in its movements. By adding a second monopole gear and differentials in tandem, connected to a ball joint, this system becomes even more robust. Operators are able to achieve...

FSD Beta V12.3.3 (2024.3.10) – Tesla FSD V12.3.3 is rolling out to vehicles in North America, soon after v12.3.2.1 was released. This release changes the designation from "Beta" to "Supervised", which apparently means that it requires supervision, according to Tesla: "Under your supervision, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can drive your Tesla almost anywhere."FSD Beta 12 upgrades the city-streets driving stack to a single end-to-end AI neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing over 300k lines of code. Elon Musk said that Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) version 12 will be released more broadly soon, but has only rolled out to...

He says he was just headed to Walgreens. But the expired registration on his car tag meant he could be pulled over. So there he is, sitting on the cold curb at night, cuffed by the Fresno County sheriff's deputies. Yes, the man tells CNN, he'd avoided getting a new registration, not wanting to spend the money. So now the 28-year-old is looking at a ticket on top of the registration and a late fee. Nothing comes cheap and easy for him -- except for methamphetamine. That's the lesson he says he got at the age of 13, when his...

FSD Barstow 'gets some' NBC trainingSubmitted by: MCLB BarstowStory Identification Number: 2004227145518Story by Lance Cpl. Andy J. Hurt MARINE CORPS LOGISTICS BASE BARSTOW, Calif.(Feb. 26, 2004) -- It may seem that without "operational" units, albeit infantry or artillery, MCLB Barstow doesn't see much action. Marines from MCLB's Fleet Support Division are changing that. At about 7 a.m. Feb. 13, 13 motivated leathernecks at the MCLB Barstow Yermo Annex gathered in the brisk morning breeze at Building 551 in little more than "green on green." Some Marines wore beanies. Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, maintenance chief with Fleet Support Division, began...