Waymo CEO says 'Tesla will never create a fully self-driving car'
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American electric car maker Tesla, whose total production exceeded 1 million units in March 2020, had a market capitalization exceeding Toyota in July of the same year, and CEO Elon Musk, who leads the company, has jumped into the world's richest man . It was. When asked about Tesla's momentum to drop such flying birds, it is reported that John Craftic, CEO of Google's self-driving car maker Waymo, said, 'Tesla will not be a rival.'
Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works” | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/01/waymo-ceo-tesla-is-not-a-competitor-at-all/
In an interview with German business magazine Manager Magazin, CEO Kraftic said, 'Tesla is not a competitor to us at all. With the current strategy, it is unlikely that Tesla will develop a fully automated vehicle system. Probably. '
by Alexander Migl
In an interview, CEO Kraftik sees himself as a 'company developing fully autonomous driving systems,' while Tesla is considered a 'car maker developing superior driver assistance systems.' I'm talking about.
CEO Kraftick's remarks reflect the differences in attitudes towards autonomous driving technology between the two companies. According to the IT news site Ars Technica, CEO Musk intends to improve the driving support system and realize a fully autonomous vehicle system. However, CEO Craftic said, 'It is a mistake to continue developing support systems until one day it magically becomes a fully self-driving car system.'
Tesla, which considers the fully autonomous vehicle system to be 'an extension of the driver assistance system,' has been developing vehicles equipped with hardware such as cameras and radars since 2016, and 'fully autonomous driving will be delivered at a later date.' The car system (FSD option) is sold at a price of hundreds of thousands of yen.
The FSD option, originally scheduled for completion in 2018, was released in 2020 after a number of postponements. However, this FSD system has been evaluated by the consumer report of the consumer group that reviewed the actual vehicle as 'a fully automatic driving vehicle is just a name and not worth more than 800,000 yen'.
'Tesla's fully automated driving is just a name' evaluated by Consumer Reports with no value of over 800,000 yen --GIGAZINE
'Of course Tesla is working to fix the problem, so the FSD system will soon be fully operational with no one in the driver's seat,' Ars Technica said.
As you can see, Tesla is trying to make a fully autonomous vehicle by improving its driver assistance system, but Waymo considers this approach dangerous. Google developers, who started developing self-driving systems in the early 2010s, found drivers relying on the system sooner than expected. The drivers who participated in the test had seen their cell phones and put on their makeup, even though they were strictly ordered to monitor the system carefully.
From this, Waymo came to think that 'the more the driver assistance system develops, the more the driver becomes less careful and can not be prepared for software mistakes', Waymo will improve the driver assistance system. Abandon the approach. Under the supervision of a trained professional driver, we have steered towards developing an automated taxi service .
According to Mr. Krafchic, Waymo has almost completed the technical work of the autonomous driving system, and it is also in the range of commercial development in the next few years. On the other hand, CEO Musk said that Waymo's approach was 'highly specialized' and that it would be difficult to scale up to the general public.
Ars Technica said, 'Which theory is correct, Waymo's Krafsick or Tesla's CEO Musk, will be clear within the next few years.'
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