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| Tesla's Musk seeks 'hardcore engineers' to speed self-guiding car project | |
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| Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is using Twitter to find software engineers in an attempt to accelerate the company's project to build self-guiding cars. | |
| In the tweets Mr Musk appealed for "hardcore software engineers" to work on the firm's Autopilot software. | In the tweets Mr Musk appealed for "hardcore software engineers" to work on the firm's Autopilot software. |
| Mr Musk says he will be interviewing candidates personally. | Mr Musk says he will be interviewing candidates personally. |
| Successful candidates will report directly to him as the project is "super high priority". | Successful candidates will report directly to him as the project is "super high priority". |
| Coders need not have prior experience with cars, Mr Musk tweeted. | Coders need not have prior experience with cars, Mr Musk tweeted. |
| 'Ramping up' | |
| The Autopilot software is designed to let the Model S and Model X Tesla cars automatically steer, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic. | |
| "Ramping up the Autopilot software team at Tesla to achieve generalised full autonomy," he said. | |
| Unlike Google, which wants fully-autonomous vehicles, Tesla wants to introduce features which take away the need for drivers to perform certain actions. | |
| The firm's Autopilot software uses a combination of cameras, radar, sensors and mapping data to found out where it is and navigate. | |
| When the car arrives at its destination, it can scan for a space and park itself. | |
| Car makers including BMW and Volvo are also developing autonomous features for their cars. |