Tesla Autopilot

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising some major improvements to Tesla Autopilot’s Summon feature in recent weeks.

Now he has announced a new update coming in “~6 weeks” that will enable Tesla owners to remotely control their car through their phones “like RC cars”.
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Elon Musk has been promising some major improvements to Tesla Autopilot’s Summon feature, and now he has now released some new details.

The CEO now claims that the next-gen Summon feature will be able to navigate parking lots of its own, find a parking spot and even read signs for parking instruction to avoid tickets.
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Tesla is releasing a rare new feature under its Enhanced Autopilot package: Navigate on Autopilot.

Today, the automaker released a new video demonstration of the feature and more details on the rollout.
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Tesla is pushing a new software update today with its long-awaited ‘Navigate on Autopilot’ feature, though it comes with a disappointing caveat and several other changes.
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Some of our favorite Tesla hackers are back at it with new footage to help us understand what Autopilot can see with the new neural net that Tesla deployed in its version 9 software update.
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In a somewhat controversial move, Tesla is removing the option to buy its ‘Full Self-Driving Capability’ package from the online design studios of its vehicles.
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While Tesla has held back its main new Autopilot feature with the release of version 9, it has still deployed a new neural net for Autopilot and according to a new analysis, it is a massively bigger neural net with impressive new capabilities.
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Consumer Reports is out today with its first ever ranking of automated driving systems. Coming out on top overall was Cadillac’s Super Cruise, but Tesla’s Autopilot earned the highest score for the “Capability & Performance” category.

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Tesla is gradually rolling out its new version 9 update, which includes several new Autopilot improvements and features.

It’s giving us the chance to see more of the new Autopilot capabilities at work, including the new ‘Mad Max’ mode on ‘Navigate on Autopilot’.
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With its new version 9 software, Tesla is releasing its first major new Autopilot feature in a long time: Navigate on Autopilot.

Now we get to see the new feature at work for the first time.
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Tesla is currently working on its self-driving program by leveraging their work on Autopilot and the data gathered through its fleet.

Now the automaker is turning to its employees to help test their driving technology.
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In our latest look at the new firmware, we’re now exploring how Tesla Autopilot on Version 9 works: anything from Mad Max mode to path planning and more.
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Tesla’s approach to autonomous driving is rather simple – albeit hard. It has some radar and ultrasonic sensor technology but the goal is to drive based on computer vision with cameras feeding into a neural net system that it is able to recognize what it sees – much like a human.

We are now getting our best look yet at what Autopilot can see with a drive through Paris.
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Tesla has been tuning its Autopilot alerts, more commonly known as ‘nag’ in the Tesla community, in recent software updates.

Now the company made it easier for drivers to make the nag go away when not holding the steering the wheel.
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The Tesla Autopilot ‘buddy’ hack to avoid ‘nag’ when using the driver assist system is coming back disguised as a ‘phone mount’ to get around NHTSA’s ban.
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We are starting to get a better idea of Tesla’s upcoming version 9 software update following the leak of an early build earlier this week.

Now Electrek has learned a few more details including what the mysterious Autopilot ‘Drive On Nav’ feature actually does.
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It is an interesting time for Tesla Autopilot and its different option packages ahead of upcoming updates.

Tesla is now temporarily decreasing the price of its Enhanced Autopilot package when ordered after delivery and it still hasn’t fixed its mistake when increasing the price of its Full Self-Driving package last month.
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A Tesla Model 3 owner claims that Autopilot ‘saved his life’ when a speeding car almost crashed into his vehicle on the highway.
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Tesla Autopilot is expected to get a major update in the coming weeks – the first big one in months, but Tesla has still been gradually updating the driver assist system with incremental smaller updates which are adding up to quite an improvement.

We’ve gotten a great example of it from an owner testing Autopilot with the Model 3 on winding roads.
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A Tesla Model S crashed into yet another fire truck resulting in two injuries in San Jose earlier today.

The driver said that he “thought the Model S was on Autopilot”, but he was arrested under suspicion of drunk driving.
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Earlier this month, Tesla claimed to have the ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving’ with its Autopilot 3.0 hardware update coming next year.

Now we’ve learned that the automaker is losing two of the chip architects behind the project.
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