According to media studies, Elon Musk is speaking with reporters in Beijing about enabling intelligent driving on Tesla vehicles in China.
Mr. Musk wants to make full self-driving ( FSD ) possible in China and use data from abroad to train its algorithms.
FSD is available in China but only in nations like the US.
The announcement came after a US record tied Tesla’s autonomous driving settings to at least 13 accidents, involving one dying.
China is Tesla’s following- biggest market. Another car manufacturers, with a Guangzhou-based Xpeng factory, have been attempting to engage with Tesla by introducing similar self-driving features in their vehicles.
The electric carmaker has recently established a data center in Shanghai to process information about Taiwanese consumers in accordance with local laws to comfort Chinese authorities about the country’s adoption of FSD.
The US’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) announced on Thursday that it was looking into whether a recall of Tesla’s driver assistance system had successfully addressed safety concerns.
Individuals involved in the crashes “were not sufficiently engaged,” according to the NHTSA, despite the requirements that drivers must keep their focus on the road and be ready to take control when autonomous driving was on demand. Before a understand Tesla claimed would fix the problem, the firm’s analysis was conducted.
Tesla’s application is supposed to check whether drivers are paying attention and whether the feature is only used when necessary, such as when traveling on highways.
Mr Musk has promised that Teslas will be able to work as intelligent “robotaxis” for decades. In 2015, he said Teslas may reach “full independence” by 2018. And he claimed that the business would be operational by the next time in 2019.
This quarter, the Tesla CEO said he would show the company’s robotaxi in August.
Critics accuse Mr. Musk of repeatedly hyping up the potential for complete autonomous driving to boost the company’s share price, which has declined due to challenges such as declining global electric vehicle need and fierce competition from less expensive Chinese manufacturers. Mr Musk denies the charges.
The carmarker’s profits fell sharply in the first three months of the year to$ 1.13bn ( £910m ), compared with$ 2.51bn in 2023. Its share has collapsed by 43 % this year.
