Has Tesla Really Engineered A 6 Year Head Start?

If so, who will step up to follow in their footsteps and keep the revolution moving forward?

A very interesting article was released today relating to Tesla cars. The article, published by electrek declares: “Tesla has ‘6 years lead over Toyota and VW’ in electronics, says new Model 3 teardown“

6 years…

In the age of modern electronics that is a lifetime for some CPUs!!

Using a very liberal interpretation of Moore’s Law, if it were to apply to AI processing, means that 3 iterations of the law would pass in those 6 years. That would put an effective lead of eight times the computing power ( = 2³ ) inside Tesla’s electronics over competitors in the automotive space.

A six year lead and eight times the computing power? When does that ever happen in the Engineering world?

One stunned engineer from a major Japanese automaker examined the computer and declared, “We cannot do it.”

Tesla of course has the huge benefit of being an upstart in what has become a hugely iterative market. Sure, new cars and new designs come out, but there has been no real innovation in terms of overhauls of systems and electronics on cars. This is not a statement with a…