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Tesla's Autopilot To Get 'Full Self-Driving Feature' In August (reuters.com)
Earlier today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that its Autopilot driver assistance system will get full self-driving features following a software upgrade in August. Reuters reports: Autopilot, a form of advanced cruise control, handles some driving tasks and warns those behind the wheel they are always responsible for the vehicle's safe operation. But a spate of recent crashes has brought the system under regulatory scrutiny. "To date, Autopilot resources have rightly focused entirely on safety. With V9, we will begin to enable full self-driving features," Musk tweeted here on Sunday, replying to a Twitter user.
Musk said the autopilot issue during lane-merging is better in the current software and will be fully fixed in the August update. However, it was not clear what self-driving features would be included in the August update. Tesla's documentation on its website about the "full self-driving capabilities" package says that it is not possible to know exactly when each element of the functionality will be available, as this is highly dependent on local regulatory approval.
Musk said the autopilot issue during lane-merging is better in the current software and will be fully fixed in the August update. However, it was not clear what self-driving features would be included in the August update. Tesla's documentation on its website about the "full self-driving capabilities" package says that it is not possible to know exactly when each element of the functionality will be available, as this is highly dependent on local regulatory approval.
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Tesla has a high rate of recalls compared to other car manufacturers. You're a fool if you trust their self-driving mode. Turning on their autopilot feature is just asking to die.
Shut up, soyboy weasel.
Can we get a better law passed to make deceptive quoting and deceptive titles illegal? "begin to enable full self-driving features" is not nearly the same as "get 'full self-driving features'". No wonder the news industry is dying. It's all just bullshit, same as gossip.
When approaching stopped car at high velocity, do not hit car. Hopefully they can expand that feature to cover other stationary objects as well, but I can see how that might be a "2.0” kind of thing.
Liability insurance payments will skyrocket starting in August, as they will now be on the hook for any accidents that happen whilst running Autopilot. No more excuses of "it's just an aid, you still need to hold the wheel". Musk is explicitly claiming self-driving capabilities.
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Does anyone honestly care outside of tech bubbles or greedy car companies? If anybody is stupid enough to utilize this, Musk will have more deaths on his hands and through that verbiage he would find it a lot more difficult to weasel his way out of liability. Full automation for this particular task is a pipe dream, and one that no one asked for. He's a fossil of the disuption-equals-hostile-takeover startup culture, he's not half as bright as he gets credit for, and he's just trying to keep himself relevant. I could honestly care less about this. Yawn.
I knew a guy. He drove his car into an interstate overpass at 80+ mph. It was a failed suicide attempt (i.e., he lived).
Point is, Tesla's autopilot is indistinguishable from a depressed, suicidal middle aged man that was just fired.
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And I own a Tesla model 3 and find the autopilot to be a significant improvement over the standard cruise control found in a lesser cars.
I'm also an engineer and have a graduate degree in machine learning, so I don't share your pessimism. Fortunately, you Luddites are in the minority or we'd instead be arguing the merits of mules vs horses vs donkeys.
Musk tweeted: "we will begin to enable full self-driving features" doesn't mean Teslas will be capable of "full self driving", his claim is that his company would "begin" to deploy some of the features for the people that paid extra money for the "Full Self Driving Feature" in addition to the Auto Pilot feature, but not anyone else.
This could simply mean that it's just better at dealing with merging vehicles that the tweet that Musk was responding mentioned that the existing Auto Pilot software had problems with.
FYI, this thread is about Tesla's autopilot.
does "self driving" mean what it means or is it a "self driving assist"?
Since 2016, anyone who paid Tesla for FSD got absolutely nothing over those who didn't. What feature will get rolled out in August is not publicly known, could be some trick the car can do that it couldn't before (e.g. warn you if it sees a stop sign or a red light, not guaranteed it will see one of course). Then again, given that Elon said the exact same thing in the past, "features rolling out starting December 2016", then "FSD coast-to-coast demo by end of 2017", and none of them came remotely true, I would not be holding my breath. Could be just a way to distract the media from NHTSA investigation results, or other news Elon wasn't thrilled to see.
You know people like you falling for clickbait is the reason there's clickbait right?
Do us all a favour and read and understand the summary at least before jumping in next time.
Elon Musk will not last 1 day in a prison and after an full self-driving Tesla runs someone down and kills someone.
This, this is courage.
Stop shooting that foot already what is wrong with you!
More autopilot crashes comming. "oh it's not autoppilot!"
How stupid are you people?
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More brain-dead brainless motherfuckers dead in Teslas on Autopilot. They are idiots, fuck 'em, clean up the gene pool, Darwin Award, all that. I'm just waiting for the first moron on Autopilot to kill a person. An elderly person, a kid, whomever. We'll see how well it goes for the company. Pseudo-Auto-driving Uber Alles? Uber, uber, hmm.... Reminds me of something....
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How many corpses need stacked infront of the Robot Idols before these corporations blood lust is satisfied ?
Work with your local and state government to ban Tesla and all driverless technology.
None of us have signed an agreement allowing us to become victims in your lab experiments.
Go kill people somewhere else.
Elon Musk will not spend 1 day in a prison after a full self-driving Tesla runs someone down and kills someone.
FTFY
Remember rich people don't go to prison, that's just for people who can't afford expensive lawyers.
Just surprised Tesla with all the bad press on these deaths don't provide a better solution then to offer a more improved auto pilot. What's even more surprising is that NHTSA has not required some sort of recall of the system given their own findings say something is definitely problematic with the auto pilot system.
FYI, this thread is about Tesla's autopilot.
Which has killed more people than the claimed Canadian "heart attack weapon".
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
It will fully self drive you into the barrier ... you won't have to lift a finger! (or be able to, afterwards)
I think its a load of BS. Musk is the Trump of the car industry, diverting otherwise bad news with sensational stuff which is mostly untrue.
How do you think commercial jets land? Hint, I.L.S.
How do you think commercial jets land? Hint, I.L.S.
So they don't fly into the next available stationary object like Tesla does?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.