Musk travels to China to hunt for information to enhance Tesla's autonomous driving | EUROtoday

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Elon Musk's surprising journey to China. The proprietor of Tesla arrived in Beijing for a go to on the invitation of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade, as introduced by public tv CCTV. The information of the go to of the entrepreneur proprietor of Tesla, SpaceX and the social community X had not been anticipated in current days. Musk, whose earlier go to to China was in June 2023, met with the pinnacle of China's Council for the Promotion of International Trade Ren Hongbin to debate the following steps of a collaboration, in response to Chinese media reviews, and held talks with a senior commerce official additionally in Beijing. “It's good to see electric vehicles making progress in China,” he mentioned. “All cars will be electric in the future.”

One of the needs of the journey, as steered by the analyst of the Californian funding financial institution Wedbush Secuities, Dan Ives, is to make preparations in order that Tesla can switch the navigation information collected from its vehicles in China to the United States, with the purpose of enhancing efficiency of the Full Self-Drivig (Fsd) software program for autonomous driving. «If Musk managed to acquire Beijing's approval – feedback Ives – to switch the information collected in China overseas, this may signify a “turning point” concerning the acceleration of the coaching of algorithms for autonomous driving» .

Tesla has up to now bought 1.7 million vehicles in China. The go to of the entrepreneur of South African origin to the Chinese capital coincides with the Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, the Beijing auto present which is presently being held and can shut on May 4th. The entrepreneur of South African origin additionally met the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang throughout his keep.