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.
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Seriously, if I want to travel in a car but don’t want to drive, I take a cab.
I buy a car because I want to drive.
Then don’t use Autopilot… Simple as that.
Foglights = d¡ck
Well…What’s the point then? So if you Musk keep your hands on the wheel, then you still have to concentrate on “driving” and everything around you? Pointless, useless, piece of rubbish.
other day I was eating a mcflury and needed to make wheel inputs whit my knee because both hands were occupied, autopilot would be nice in those situations, having 3 minutes between inputs is nice…
What I experienced, fog light is also sending light to the side of the the main beam. So at the night, on a non-illuminated road I notice that when some1 it directly passing you at the end it’s blending.. Especially on curvey roads. Also in Austria there are special requirements which have to be be met when it comes comes to the lights of the cars so maybe it’s a different experience in your country ;)
To the phone phoneys and and lazy brains who abuse the autopilot…
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This will help
Did he just admit to going 10 MPH over on video? haha
so what wait if you will not take control of it.. it will simply crash? it should slowly move max to the right and stop the car and turn hazzards lights and play some loud music or smthn to for example wake up the persson or somethink like that.
The battery drain is doing me an ‘eckin big concern m8
If you dont react at all , like fallen asleep or something, what will it do then?
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