The Autopilot is Tesla’s advanced assisted driving program with features like Autosteer, Autopark, and Trafic-Aware Cruise Control (TACC).
The hardware suite was first introduced in Tesla’s vehicles in September 2014. The company gradually released more and more advanced features through over-the-air software updates until the first meaningful “Autopilot Update” in October 2015 with the release of v.7.0 of Tesla OS.
In an attempt to be the first to deploy a truly fully autonomous driving system later this year, Tesla is collecting corner cases that its vehicles encounter on the road with its Autopilot system.
We now get an interesting example with a visualization of how Autopilot interprets and reacts to a goose crossing the road.
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Tesla’s latest Autopilot feature, Navigate on Autopilot, has been trashed in a review by Consumer Reports who said the system is “less competent than a human driver”, makes “poor decisions”, and creates “potential safety risks.”
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Tesla’s Navigate on Autopilot feature, which enables autonomous lane change on the highway, has suggested a lane change into oncoming traffic for a Model 3 driver.
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A Tesla driver got a suspended license after he drunkenly fell asleep on Autopilot on the highway in the Netherlands. The police managed to safely wake him up while Autopilot was driving the vehicle unsupervised.
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A fatal crash that occurred earlier this year and involved a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot and a truck is currently under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
They have now released their preliminary report.
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A Tesla owner shared a dashcam video of his vehicle stopping in front of a rabbit on the road and he claims Tesla Autopilot saw the animal and initiated the maneuver to avoid hitting it.
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Tesla is again restructuring its Autopilot software team, according to sources talking to Electrek.
CEO Elon Musk is taking the reins with now even more people reporting directly to him and some senior staff being let go while others being promoted.
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One of the main concerns with self-driving vehicles is how they will react to different climates and weather conditions. Now we get an idea of the potential as we take a look at what Tesla Autopilot can see in a rainstorm at night.
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A Tesla Model 3 owner was rear-ended on the highway yesterday and it pushed the electric car toward another vehicle in front of it, but the driver claims that Tesla’s Autopilot took over and managed an impressive evasion maneuver to avoid another crash.
The accident was caught on Tesla’s dashcam feature.
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A Tesla Model 3 owner claims that Autopilot saved his family by autonomously swerving away from a distracted pickup truck driver almost crashing into their car in a near miss caught on video.
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A Tesla driver has discovered an interesting new Autopilot safety feature that he dubbed ‘Autopilot isn’t on, idiot’ to help people who mistakenly think that they activated the driver assist feature.
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Now that Tesla’s new Full Self-Driving computer is in production, CEO Elon Musk elaborated on the state of the capacity of the current generation versus the new more powerful computer.
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Tesla Autopilot will eventually be able to avoid potholes on the road, according to CEO Elon Musk as the automaker releases more advanced Autopilot updates.
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Tesla started pushing a new ‘more seamless’ version of its Navigate on Autopilot feature without lane change confirmation to its wider fleet.
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Tesla is currently making some interesting moves to slowly transition its Autopilot system from a driver assist system for highway driving to an autonomous driving system that can handle intersections and city driving.
We are now even seeing Tesla Autopilot stop at red lights on its own for the first time.
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Tesla is continuing to improve Autopilot’s abilities in both documented and undocumented ways. Just recently the system has gained two new capabilities: detecting stop lights and detecting lane change intention from other cars.
Tesla is making some moves to change Autopilot from a highway-only driver assist system to something that can also work in city streets with intersections.
Today, we learn that Autopilot now detects stop lines.
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Tesla announced late Friday evening that it is significantly reducing the prices of upgrading existing vehicles with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving packages.
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Earlier today, a Tesla Model 3 owner died in a tragic accident with a semi truck. The Model 3 went under the truck’s trailer resulting “in the roof being sheared off as it passed underneath,” which is known as a “side underride” accident.
The circumstances are extremely similar to the famous 2016 fatal Autopilot crash. The accident is still under investigation and Autopilot hasn’t been ruled out.
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Tesla today, along with the $35,000 Model 3 and other goodies, announced it would be taking Autopilot to the next level, this year…
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NHTSA released a report two years ago claiming that Tesla‘s vehicle crash rate dropped by 40% after the introduction of Autopilot.
Now a strange report is contesting the claim following a FOIA (freedom of information act) lawsuit to release the data, but Tesla defended the claim in a statement.
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A Tesla vehicle crashed into ‘several signs on the road’ in New Jersey last night and the driver claims that his Model X was on Autopilot and he couldn’t disengage the driver assist system, which would be a first.
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Tesla started deliveries of Model 3 in Europe yesterday, but we’ve now learned that Autopilot is not available in those vehicles due to a delay in regulatory approval, but don’t panic – it should be available any day.
Update: as expected, Autopilot has now been approved and Tesla should be able to soon push the update.
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A Tesla Model 3 owner credits Autopilot for “saving his life” as he claims the driver assist system automatically swerved out of the way to avoid another vehicle when traveling at highway speed.
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