This is not a revolution, but the symbol is strong. During a press conference in San Francisco, Elon Musk has declared that the era had come of the entire autonomous. the ” All the cars produced by Tesla will have the equipment needed to be fully autonomous, “, he said. Including the highly anticipated Model 3 to come to the public. This does not mean that the driver of a Tesla will be able to roll the inch. the ” It will take us time for a full validation of the software and to get the permission of regulators “, warns Elon Musk.
He also said that a Tesla autonomous was two times safer than with a driver, a human at the wheel, and promised ” a demonstration of driving in total autonomy from Los Angeles to New York (…) by the end of next year, “. A sort of thumbing his nose at the investigations that have been opened in recent months in several countries after the accidents involving a car equipped with its current system of automatic assistance in the conduct Autopilot.
configuration improved technique, Autopilot revised
The number of cameras will be increased from one to eight to allow a 360-degree vision around the car. They will be supplemented by 15 ultrasonic sensors of new generation is two times more powerful than their predecessors. Elon Musk has also pointed to a power multiplied by a factor of 40 for the computer equipment on board, which he compared to a supercomputer in the car.
In the immediate future, cars equipped with the new equipment will be temporarily less capacity as autonomous as those with Autopilot, ” including security options such as automatic braking in emergency, the collision warning, keeping them in a queue and the cruise control “, according to the press release from Tesla. Elon Musk, however, has estimated that the new vehicles would return to parity with their predecessors, probably in December, perhaps within two to three months, aimed, then auto-updating and improving their capabilities every two or three months.
On its website, Tesla is now offering buyers of its two models on the market (S and X) the ability to enable the choice of an upgraded version of Autopilot for $ 5,000, or new features standalone for $ 3,000 more.
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