Learn about Ashok Elluswamy, the director of Autopilot Software at Tesla, and his role in turning Tesla’s Autopilot into a groundbreaking success. Elluswamy has eight years of experience with Tesla and a background in robotics and computer vision. He was hired after responding to a tweet from Elon Musk and has been a key driver of AI and autonomy at Tesla. Despite initial doubts, Elluswamy and his team were able to achieve seemingly impossible goals, such as implementing lane keeping and lane changing, and shipping the world’s first Autopilot system in 2015.
