Hyderabad:Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy played a key role in the Autopilot team of electric car (EV) manufacturer Tesla. He was the first person to join the team. Musk thanked Ashok Elluswamy and his team for Tesla's success in Artificial Intelligence and autopilot software.
Ashok Elluswamy praised Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a tweet on 'X', "Elon Musk played a key role in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Autopilot in Tesla. At the start of this experiment, many people doubted that Musk's ideas were not feasible. However, he remained confident and led the team forward. In 2014, we started Autopilot with a small computer. It is a small desktop with only 384KB memory capacity. Although Musk instructed the engineering team to implement lane keeping, lane charging etc., but no one believed his words. However, he led the team towards his goal without losing faith at all. So in 2015, the first autopilot system was brought in," he said, recalling the memories of that day.