Autonomous Vehicle News
Tesla is turning to things besides solar in order to comply with its employment requirements at Gigafactory Buffalo in New York as part of a deal between SolarCity and the state. Tesla moves to more non-solar activitiesIn order to ramp up hiring at the location and comply with the state requirements, Tesla has been bringing more activities to Tesla Gigafactory New York that have nothing to do with solar. We previously reported on Tesla looking to build a team of data labelers at Gigafactory New York to feed Autopilot neural nets with images. 250 people is significant considering Tesla reports now employing 1,058 people at Gigafactory New York as of the end of April. While Tesla has achieved its investment requirements for the project, it is still about 30% off its employment goal.