Tesla AI Day Highlights & How Autopilot Works
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
Andrej Karpathy’s talk on Tesla’s autopilot explained clearly in under 10 minutes

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
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If you wonder how a Tesla car can not only see but navigate the roads with other vehicles, this is the article you were waiting for. A couple of days ago was the first Tesla AI day where Andrej Karpathy, the Director of AI at Tesla, and others presented how Tesla’s autopilot works from the image acquisition through their eight cameras to the navigation process on the roads.
Tesla’s cars have eight cameras like this illustration, allowing the vehicle to see their surroundings and far in front…. Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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