Tesla recruiting local operations team to bring FSD to China, report says

[Hamartia Antidote]

Tesla recruiting local operations team to bring FSD to China, report says

Tesla plans to form a local operations team of around 20 people initially to bring FSD to the Chinese market, according to local media.

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Tesla plans to form a local operations team of around 20 people initially to bring FSD to the Chinese market, according to local media.

The US electric vehicle (EV) maker is planning to form a local operations team of around 20 people initially to bring FSD into the Chinese market, local media outlet 36kr said in a report today.

Tesla has already sent engineers from its headquarters to conduct training, the report said, citing a source familiar with the industry chain.

Meanwhile, Tesla is also trying to set up a data labeling team in China, with a size of hundreds of people, which is to prepare for training the algorithm of FSD, the report said.

What's more, Tesla has given a clear solution on the issue of vehicle data storage, the report said.

On August 14, Tesla said in a statement that it had set up a data center in China and that all data generated from vehicles sold in China would be stored within the country, the report noted.

Tesla needs to apply for a temporary license if it conducts FSD testing in Shanghai, and after two weeks of trial operation and approval by the local authorities, it can get a long-term testing qualification, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

And it will take at least three months to get this qualification, the people said.

On May 12, a Shanghai official said the city would further deepen its cooperation with Tesla and promote the electric vehicle maker's business, including self-driving and robotics, in Shanghai.

This sparked widespread discussion at the time and was seen as a signal of Shanghai's support for FSD to enter China.

All Tesla vehicles currently come with free Basic Autopilot (BAP) software. In addition, Tesla offers Enhanced Autopilot (EAP), FSD software as paid options.

EAP and FSD cost $6,000 and $15,000 in the US, and RMB 32,000 ($4,480) and RMB 64,000 in China, respectively.

On June 9, CITIC Securities analyst Lian Yixi's team said the trend of Tesla's FSD entering China has become clearer, which is expected to accelerate the intelligence of local electric vehicles.

However, this is still facing two major issues from becoming a reality -- data collection qualification and supercomputing centers, according to the team.

 

[Menthol]

Just as I thought, autonomous driving mode still needs to be adjusted for each country.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Just as I thought, autonomous driving mode still needs to be adjusted for each country.

Well every country has their own road rules. Luckily Tesla only has to get the rules correct.

The bigger question for other FSD systems is how many countries will allow a foreign company to map every street (and their surrounding buildings) with millimeter precision LIDAR.

Many countries had a huge pushback on Google Street View (like China). Now how many countries in turn are going to give Chinese companies a greenlight to map theirs.

 

[kankan326]

Not possible considering Tesla's role in Ukraine war. If Tesla wants to use autonomous driving in China, instead uses its own technologies, it has to install Chinese companies' autonomous driving systems(They are good too. Check below Huawei car autonomous driving video) in China and build data center in China.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Not possible considering Tesla's role in Ukraine war. If Tesla wants to use autonomous driving in China, instead uses its own technologies, it has to install Chinese companies' autonomous driving systems(They are good too. Check below Huawei car autonomous driving video) in China and build data center in China.

Well right now that Huawei LIDAR system may as well be vaporware as it isn't even in the hands of any consumers.

Meanwhile..as usual..the US is ahead of China with FSD available to 100's of thousands of Canadian and US Tesla owners for ALL roads (not restricted to LIDAR pre-mapped areas).

To be clear what this car is doing. Using just cameras and the typical basic info you get from something like the map app on your phone the car is analyzing the scene 100's of times a second identifying the environment and making driving decisions on places it has never seen before.

It is getting better by the day..and if they entered all the road rules each country had it could probably drive from Portugal all the way to China (if it had the charging infrastructure).