Tesla's crisis: the autopilot team brain drain 11 recent departure

Previously, tesla CEO elon musk to development and the progress of the fully automatic function. Some team members told him that they can meet the schedule he development of the technology.

departing employees is one of the tesla autopilot team leader Zeljko Popovic, freight and join in San Francisco, automatic start-up Embark.

Popovic previously in tesla is responsible for development of high precision in the United States highway map, and created a & other; Sensor fusion system & throughout; , the system can be tesla's vehicles use of video cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensor data, finally let the autopilot can & other See & throughout; The other cars on the road.

in Popovic, vice President in charge of autopilot Jim Keller departure to join Intel, chief engineer Doug Field will return to apple for self-driving technology related projects.

musk has said that sometime in the next year, tesla owners can use automated driving in the car function, without human intervention. Since the October 2016 production models, only need to replace the computer can realize automatic driving.

tesla automated driving Open Day on April, musk released a automated driving chip 'full self - Driving computer ', can handle work eight cameras at the same time the production of 2100 frames per second of image input, achieve 2. 5 billion pixels per second, is about 21 times of nvidia version.