An autonomous self driving EV car is no more a dream, now you can own it

While the automotive engineering related community debating about the timing of full-fledged availability of autonomous self driving cars, there came a surprise announcement from world's no.1 EV car maker Tesla Motors. In this year of 2015, Tesla S model electric cars will be over-the-air updated with the latest software version which supports autonomous driving feature in cars. The hardware supporting self driving features already installed in new S Model. The new Model S is fitted with a radar in the front, and ultrasonic sensors placed all around the car to sense objects at 16 feet from the car, a forward-looking camera, and a digitally controlled electric assist braking system. Well, the self driving car tech is ready to roll, but the regulators/transportation authorities are not ready with the law/regulations for using electic cars in public. Now you can not raid an autonomous car in public places except for test by companies such as Google and automotive companies. After uploading the new software over-the-air, S model electric car supports a feature where driver can send a message to the car, for the car to drive itself from the parking lot to the place where the passenger is waiting. And the driver can put S model car into autonomous mode of driving. To process the data from radar, imaging and other sensors, Tesla used Nvidia's Tegra graphics processor c...