Hacker tears open Tesla Autopilot module

Hacker tears open Tesla Autopilot module

Hacker tears open Tesla Autopilot module, Jason Hughes, AKA wk057, has acquaint a teardown of the Autopilot camera bore in the Tesla Model S.Because Tesla does things added automakers don't, or in means added automakers don't, it stokes a lot of concern a part of car and tech admirers alike. The hacking association has taken absolutely an absorption in the Tesla Model S back its introduction, and they'll absolutely abide to boggle with the Model X and Model 3 in the future. One man who has fabricated a name for himself for his Tesla hacks is Jason Hughes, AKA wk057. He's the guy who begin the P100D brand architecture aural a firmware amend of his Model S (and accused the automaker of attempting to after decline his firmware). Now, Hughes has conducted a teardown of Tesla's Autopilot module, and has acquaint photos and allegation to his new website.

As Hughes begins to yield the bore apart, we get a attending at the camera, which mounts to the windshield (high-res angel here). It's credible aboriginal on that the bore is advised to blow heat. "Most of the case is basically a calefaction sink," writes Hughes of the rear ancillary (image). "This affair gets HOT."

Unscrewing and removing the allocation of the bore with the calefaction bore reveals the rear of the camera allocation (image), with its own calefaction bore there, too. Hughes credibility out a aggregation of apparent analysis points, assumingly for technicians to run affection from. Hughes hints that he may boggle with those in a after update.

His next photo shows the basal of printed ambit lath (PCB). "Nothing too interesting," Hughes notes. This angel shows a Model S contour logo on the board, additional a attribute assuming that the PCB is lead-free.

The cast ancillary of the PCB (image) has the affection of the Autopilot module: a MobileEye EyeQ3 chip. This is the processor that makes faculty of the beheld abstracts captured by the module's camera. It's what recognizes cartage signs, spots added cars and pedestrians, and reads lane arrangement in adjustment to automate active functions. Added automakers aswell use this processor in their eyes systems, and MobilEye is alive on a fourth-generation adaptation that can assay advice from up to eight cameras. It's appointed to accomplish its way into cars alpha in 2018.

Also on the ambit lath are RAM chips and what Hughes calls a "generic" agenda arresting processor.

As Hughes credibility out, there are abounding added apparatus to Tesla's Autopilot system, including radar, accelerated sensors, and iBooster braking arrangement from Bosch, all of which plan together. This camera module, however, and its MobiliEye EyeQ3 processor, are at the amount of the Autopilot system.

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