Tesla Autopilot Now Has A Big Hissyfit If You Don't Use It Properly

As well as a whole raft of improvements thanks to the implementation of radar, Tesla’s Autopilot v8.0 also takes a much more stern approach to users who don’t do as they’re told.

As shown in the video above, you can still keep your hands off the wheel for a considerable amount of time - over four minutes, in this demonstration. However, once the system decides you should really be holding the wheel, you only get three warnings. Ignore them, and you’re locked out of the ‘Autosteer’ feature “for the rest of This Drive”. By that, the car means when the car’s in park. Put the car back in drive, and your warnings are ‘reset’.

Tesla’s Autopilot system has been in the spotlight recently, amidst news of what’s been labeled as the first ever autonomous car fatality - a crash in Florida which claimed the life of Joshua D. Brown - plus a fatal accident that happened in China earlier in the year that could also be Autopilot-related.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that Autopilot v8.0 should cut Autopilot crashes by half, and that the newest version of the system would have saved Brown’s life.

Source: Teslarati via Jalopnik