Karpathi’s departure comes at a critical time, as Tesla CEO Elon Musk wants to make his cars fully self-driving this year, after postponing previous target dates several times. Reuters news agency.
Tesla shares fell 1 percent to $704 in the news.
The departure of Karpathi, who was the company’s first director of artificial intelligence, comes after Tesla said on Tuesday it would close its San Mateo, Calif., office, which houses a team working to develop the company’s “autopilot” driver-assistance technology, and more than 200 fire anyone. from there.
Karpathi, who worked in the company’s Palo Alto office, led Tesla’s autopilot camera vision analysis team and oversaw the development of artificial intelligence using data collected from vehicles in traffic.
I’ve had the pleasure of helping Tesla achieve its goals for the past five years, and the decision to leave the company has been difficult.
Karpathi wrote on Twitter, adding that he had no concrete plans for what he would do next.
Tesla’s driver-assistance technology has made great strides under Karpathi, although the pace of development has not lived up to promises made by Musk, who said in 2019 that Tesla would launch driverless taxis by 2020.
(Cover photo: The interior of a Tesla Model X on January 9, 2020 in Brussels. Photo: Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images)
