Watch Euro NCAP Crash Test a Model X
Check out this crash test video, featuring the latest Autopilot safety systems: The pedestrian detection and lane assist functinality is particular interesting. This is such an enormous leap forward in safety.
Category: Tesla Autopilot
“Uh oh”: Porsche Rents a Model 3 to Test Autopilot
Fred’s got the scoop: Jensen Gadley, a Tesla Model 3 owner from Las Vegas who rents out his car on Turo, was thinking of canceling a rental after the customers insisted on using the Smart Summon feature in his car. When the customers arrived, Gadley was surprised to see him come out of a Porsche […]
Autopilot will be Feature Complete This Month
It’s December 2019: The month Tesla Autopilot launches the first public beta of “feature complete” full self driving. We’ve already seen some steps towards feature complete status with more agressive lane changes this week, but Elon has suggested that Navigate on Autopilot on city streets could launch to Early Access this month: It’s a kind […]
Green Finds Reference to “CityStreetsBehavior” in 2019.40 Firmware
Here’s an interesting tidbit Tesla hacker greentheonly found while digging through the 2019.40 firmware: While looking through the symbols in the firmware, Green apparently saw some code or configuration keys referencing “CityStreetsBehavior”, which he claims was not there before. This would suggest that work is being done to enable city streets functionality for Navigate on […]
One Small Step Closer to Autonomy: Tesla Releases 2019.40 AI Update
Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, Tesla rolled out a software update with the latest versions of the “Tesla Vision” Artificial Intelligence sensing system. The release notes pictured above were provided. Three major changes were mentioned in the release notes: 1. 170 kW Supercharging for Standard Range Model 3 I have a Long Range battery which supports […]
Senator Ed “Moron” Markey Wants to Disable Safety Features that Save Lives
Democratic U.S. Senator Ed Markey asked Tesla Inc on Wednesday to disable its “Autopilot” driver-assistance system until it installs new safeguards to prevent drivers from evading system limits that could let them fall asleep. Reuters This pointless action would result in aditional injuries and deaths, and would not stop anyone from falling asleep. Anyone who […]
Daimler admits Robotaxi failure
Interesting story at Fortune from a few days ago from David Meyer, titled “Why Mercedes’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Set to Overtake Its Robotaxis” (nice spin). Don’t hold your breath for a self-driving Mercedes car anytime soon. Fortune Don’t worry, I wasn’t 😂 But everyone who was can now exhale! Anybody? At Daimler’s capital market day […]
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Autopilot now detecting dogs as pedestrians
Hm, it looks like Tesla is now recognizing dogs as pedestrian objects (19.36.2.1)? Or is it? That was not spelled in release notes! pic.twitter.com/XtvTFoKHKB — green (@greentheonly) November 11, 2019
Der Spiegel: Will Tesla kill the German Car?
Oh man, this is just too good. If you read one article today, make it this one. In this amazing feature length cover story for German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel Germany begins to wake up and ask itself: Is it too late to save the German auto industry? You can read the full article […]