Tesla to begin Enhanced Autopilot rollout in 'about three weeks'
Tesla to begin Enhanced Autopilot rollout in 'about three
weeks'
The full deployment is set to take months, and it's
likely that more traditional safety systems will comprise the first releases.
Tesla to begin Enhanced Autopilot rollout in 'about three
weeks' 2
Electric Cars
by Andrew Krok November 28, 2016 9:00 AM PST
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in October that all models built
from that point on would contain the hardware capable of Level 5 autonomous
driving, but none of its systems would be enabled until a later date. It
appears that rollout will begin in December.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Musk responded to a question
about the Enhanced Autopilot rollout, and he said it would begin in "about
three weeks." The rollout will be an incremental one, taking place over a
span of months, so don't expect the first part of that plan to be
Earth-shattering in any way.
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@edwardsanchez about three weeks and it will get rolled
out incrementally in monthly releases
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In all likelihood, the first stage of this rollout is
likely to bring Tesla's new Model X and Model S vehicles in line with the older
Teslas currently on the road. As the Enhanced Autopilot cars rolled off the
line with all their active safety systems disabled, including adaptive cruise
control and autonomous emergency braking, the first update will probably enable
those features for owners.
For those of you hoping to see Level 5 autonomy arriving
before the end of 2016, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed. Full-on
autonomous driving, although it's been previewed in videos recently, won't be
ready until next year at the absolute earliest. I wouldn't expect these updates
to amount to much until midway through 2017. Tesla did not immediately respond
to a request for clarification regarding Musk's tweet.
All Teslas in the assembly pipeline are now built with
eight cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors, a forward-facing radar and a beefy Nvidia
Titan GPU, which the company claims is enough to enable Level 5 autonomy. The
car does not include lidar, which works like a radar system but with laser
light, despite other companies' belief that it is an integral component in
autonomous driving. The system will also be built into the forthcoming Model 3
sedan.
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