Tesla has updated its Tesla Vision page to indicate Autosteer maximum speed limits have increased when using Autopilot, as spotted by @Tesla_Adri. According to the company, Tesla Vision is its latest Autopilot system that relies solely on cameras and does not use radar. Tesla Vision debuted on the Model 3 and Model Y starting in […]
Tesla recently dropped radar sensors in favor of camera-based sensors in its Model S and X units, officially marking the final move away from radar sensors. Pure Vision Autopilot, which is Tesla’s camera-only version of the driver assistance feature, has a current speed limit of 80 mph (128 kph) max. Telsa owner @BLKMDL3 asked Elon […]
Last month, Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey shared their “significant concerns” with Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) systems, writing a letter to the automaker’s CEO Elon Musk. Tesla responded to the U.S. senators last week, detailing Autopilot and FSD features that allow owners to “drive safer than the average driver in the […]
A recent update to Tesla’s ‘Transitioning to Tesla Vision’ Support page confirms that all Model S and Model X electric vehicles (EVs) built for the North American market as of mid-February 2022 will not be equipped with radar and will instead transition entirely to the automaker’s camera-based Vision Autopilot system. “As of mid-February 2022, all […]
Tesla’s camera-based in-cabin driver monitoring system for its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) advanced driver assistance systems have not been recognized in the latest Consumer Reports’ recent safety test. The consumer organization recently tested driver monitoring systems from BMW, Ford, General Motors, Tesla, and Subaru on a closed course. Out of the five, only GM’s […]
When a Wednesday tweet from Tesla Club – San Diego (@sdteslaowners) suggested that all Tesla owners with basic Autopilot functionality, which comes standard on Tesla cars as of 2019, should have access to the Safety Score feature, Tesla CEO Elon Musk approved of the idea. Ok — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 19, 2022 Replying with […]
Kevin George Aziz Riad, whose Tesla Model S struck another car at a high speed in the Los Angeles suburb of Gardena on December 29, 2019, killing two people, has been charged with two counts of vehicular manslaughter by California prosecutors — reports MarketWatch. In the crash, police said Riad’s Model S was moving at […]
Green Hills Software CEO and The Dawn Project founder Dan O’Dowd, who took out a full-page ad targeting Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software in the Sunday, January 16th paper edition of the New York Times, on Tuesday sat down for an interview on the CNBC‘s Squawk on the Street. O’Dowd at first steered the conversation towards the dangers […]
Image via @JeffTutorials Dan O’Dowd the CEO of Green Hills Software and founder of The Dawn Project, placed a full-sized ad in the Sunday, January 16th paper edition of the New York Times, targeting Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software. “Today I placed a full-page advertisement in the @nytimes, campaigning to ban @Tesla full self-driving from our roads. […]
In a series of recently conducted tests, nonprofit consumer organization Consumer Reports found that Tesla’s camera-based driver monitoring for its driver assistance features, “fails to keep driver attention on the road,” during Autopilot. When Tesla ditched radar earlier this year for a purely camera-based approach to driver assistance technologies like Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving […]
Tesla customers in the United States gained the Disney+ streaming service with software update 2021.24 back in July. Many Tesla owners outside the U.S., including those in Canada and Europe eagerly awaited Disney+, but it has never materialized. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed Disney “restricted” Tesla to implement the streaming service to the […]
According to The Washington Post, the world’s first ‘Tesla baby’ was born this September when Pennsylvania, U.S., resident Yiran Sherry gave birth to her daughter in the front passenger seat of a black Tesla Model 3 after rush hour made a 20-minute ride to Paoli Hospital much longer. Yiran was crouched over in the front passenger […]
The New York Times today published a deep-dive into Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technologies after talking to a number of former employees who have worked on them over the last decade. The 19 former employees–speaking anonymously–interviewed by The New York Times all said Tesla has tried to push the development of both Autopilot […]
Tesla has launched a free Autopilot camera upgrade for Model S and Model X owners with cars built before September 2017. The news comes one day after CEO Elon Musk replied “coming soon” to a customer that asked about a retrofit for older Tesla vehicles. Coming soon — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 8, 2021 On […]
In September, Tesla updated its Autopilot system to slow down automatically for emergency vehicles at night, and a new discovery shows that the company is still working out ways to make its advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) safer around emergency responders. Tesla has once again updated its emergency light display, as pointed out on Monday […]
