Tesla’s in-house chip is 21 times faster than the older Nvidia model Tesla used. And each car’s computer has two for safety.
Source: Take a close-up look at Tesla’s self-driving car computer and its two AI brains
Tesla has invested 14 months into developing their own board for self-driving and safety operations, which will subsequently NOT be available to competitors in the space. Just as Apple designs their own processors (and absolutely slays at it), this looks to me to be a serious competitive advantage. A lot of people are looking at Tesla as a car company, but they’re looking more and more like Apple every day. How would you characterize what kind of company Apple is?…