The revision will depend more on radar signals to help guide Tesla vehicles along roadways and add safeguards to keep drivers engaged at high speed. It’s going from good to, I think, great.”The software update will be rolled out within the next two weeks and delivered to vehicles over the air, he said. They will affect Tesla vehicles built since October 2014, before which hardware that Autopilot uses wasn’t included. Tesla’s Autopilot uses cameras, radar and sensors to steer vehicles and adjust their speed. It is seen as an aggressive step toward self-driving cars, though Tesla warns users that the technology doesn’t, in fact, make Tesla vehicles autonomous and that drivers must remain ready to take control.
Source: Wall Street Journal September 11, 2016 20:15 UTC