Tesla Autopilot

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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Tesla started an email campaign to inform owners of Autopilot 2.0 cars who didn’t buy any Autopilot package that they will have access to a free over-the-air Autopilot trial.

The move to boost usage and sales of the system comes just as Tesla is expected to release an important Autopilot software update.
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After announcing an upcoming new Autopilot 3.0 hardware upgrade last week, Elon Musk now updates us on the timing and confirms who is going to get the upgrade for “free” – or more accurately, included with an existing Autopilot package.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been releasing some information about their autonomous driver assist level 2 system tests in some premium sedans and they found that the Tesla Model 3 has the best lane-keeping with Autopilot’s Autosteer, but they had some issues with other aspects of Autopilot and its active safety features of both Model S and Model 3.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping the release of the automaker’s version 9.0 software update, which is expected to include a bunch of improvements from small convenience features to new Autopilot features.

Now the automaker elaborated on those new Autopilot features, which will include the much-anticipated ‘On-ramp to Off-ramp’  feature.
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Tesla is finally ‘letting the cat out of the bag’ when it comes to its new custom-built chip for the next generation Autopilot.

The automaker claims that it now has the ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving’ that will be released in an upgrade to current owners next year.
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Accidents involving Tesla vehicles on Autopilot often get reported in the media, but we don’t hear a lot about the accidents that didn’t happen because of Autopilot since it’s not as exciting when virtually nothing happened – though it’s arguably just as important.

Now we have a good example with a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot avoiding a crash in near-miss caught on a dashcam.
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Automakers and tech companies are rushing to bring autonomous driving systems to market and accumulating mileage with their test vehicles.

Tesla is taking a different approach by accumulating mileage with its customer fleet through its Autopilot driver assist program.

A new report now estimates that Tesla has accumulated over 1.2 billion miles on Autopilot and more than twice that when accounting for mileage in ‘shadow mode’.
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