Technology in the automotive industry continues to develop rapidly. It's not just about electric cars but also autonomous technology, aka driverless. And now, many world manufacturers are starting to combine these two technologies, namely electric cars that can be driven without a driver, with various levels of sophistication.

Various world manufacturers, such as Tesla, Bentley, and BYD, also plan to combine electric car technology and driverless systems.

One manufacturer or individual who is very aggressively developing this autonomous technology is Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The number one richest person in the world predicts that the Full Self Driving (FSD) feature, an autonomous driving system, level 4 or 5 will be present in Tesla vehicles at the end of this year. Full Self Driving .

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According to the Carscoops page, Elon Musk made a statement about the autonomous driving system while attending the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, virtually. He commented on how Tesla is approaching AI and the progress it is making regarding autonomous driving technology

“In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision. "This is just speculation, but I think we will achieve that—maybe what you call four or five—at the end of this year," said Elon Musk.

Meanwhile, according to GizmoChina, Tesla has disbursed investment funds of US$ 1 billion, or around Rp. 15 trillion, for the development of Project Dojo, an internal supercomputer that will be used in autonomous driving software in Tesla vehicles.

Musk explained that the internal supercomputer will process and analyze large amounts of substantial data from vehicles, especially video feeds from vehicle cameras, as an important part of the autonomous driving technology that Tesla has been developing.

According to Musk, this data is very important for improving the capabilities of Beta's Autopilot and Full Serving Driving (FSD) features, with the aim of making them safer and more efficient. In fact, these two features have collected more than 300 million miles of data.

Bentley is also developing autonomous technology

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Apart from Tesla, Bentley, as an automotive manufacturer from England, is also rumored to be soon introducing its first electric car using hands-off self-driving technology.

As explained by the CEO of Bentley, Adrian Hallmark, the Bentley electric car will use driverless technology. This happens, which is possible by updating the software over the years. Apart from that, Bentley also said that it was planning to offer technology that would use that technology, or fully autonomous driving. That happens, possibly with over-the-air software updates. .

He also explained that Bentley will use Mobileye's SuperVision technology. 

According to Insideevs, this technology will use 11 cameras and will also be used on the upcoming Porsche Macan EV. . yang akan datang.

YD participates in developing autonomous electric cars

One of the electric car manufacturers from China, BYD, also announced a partnership with Nvidia, which has announced an extension of its partnership. The collaboration will involve the use of Nvidia's advanced centralized computing platform across models in BYD's upcoming Dynasty and Ocean EV series

This collaboration, aims to bring safe, intelligent, and software-defined vehicles to the market.

"Our continued collaboration with BYD is proof of the industry's confidence in Drive Orin as a centralized computer for intelligent vehicles today and in the future," explained Rishi, quoted from the official Nvidia website.

Both companies believe that future cars will transition from multiple embedded controllers to high-performance, centralized computers. This is believed to ultimately provide and improve functionality through software updates throughout the life of the car