In an exciting new update, Elon Musk revealed that Tesla’s Full Self Driving will be getting an update to switch lanes automatically on city streets. According to a Twitter response, Musk claims the feature, called Autosteer, will be coming in “a few months in production release.” In a few months in production release. Already does … Read more
Autopilot and Full Self Driving get a lot of flak. In fairness, they do sound a little more promising than they actually are at present. A German court agreed last week, saying that Tesla has been misrepresenting the capabilities of their cars. The Munich-based court decided that the Autopilot and FSD titles are essentially false-advertising. … Read more
There is so much going on with Tesla, especially their Autopilot and Full Self Driving, that you would be forgiven for not keeping up with the details. Elon Musk recently Tweeted about how the company has been performing a fundamental re-write to the code behind their self-driving AI. It should mean a big leap forward … Read more
Recently Tesla started pushing out a new OTA update called “Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control” Up until this new feature, Tesla’s Autopilot would go through traffic lights without really acknowledging their changing states. Now, it detects the color of the light, represents in on the display, and can stop to require confirmation before proceeding. … Read more
One of the bet things about Tesla vehicles, aside from how they’re always improving, is the community members who know a lot about computers. It may sound silly to some, but there are legit hackers in the Tesla community, who open up the code of their cars and find secret hints at the improvements coming … Read more
In one of the most serious Autopilot wrecks in a long time, a Model 3 driving down the highway slammed into an overturned box truck without slowing down at all. The incident was caught on video from multiple angles, all showing how avoidable the crash would have been if the driver were paying attention. The … Read more
In a terrible, but thankfully not fatal, car accident last week, Twitter-user Martin Grefte’s Tesla Model 3 slammed into a tree at 72 km/h. Grefte was driving off of an exit ramp at the time, when he became distracted by the thought of a sick relative, and accidentally went flying off the road. Grefte published … Read more
Some find Tesla’s long-promised Full Self Driving and Autopilot features questionable. Like all things that come out in a beta format, they can draw a lot of scrutiny for operation errors in their early days. However, you can’t deny the software and hardware that Tesla says will drive us around some day has improved substantially … Read more
Elon Musk recently went to Twitter, as he does, to announce an upcoming $1,000.00 raise in the price of Full Self Driving additions to Tesla’s cars. He Says that the price hike will be probably coming July 1st. Only a couple of weeks ago Tesla announced an upcoming subscription model for the same Autopilot functions. … Read more
