Tesla HW2 Autopilot Software Update Supposedly Went Out To First 1,000 Cars
Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk had previously stated that an update allowing for Autopilot use in the new self-driving Hardware 2.0 vehicles (all Teslas produced since late October) would go out before the end of December. This goal seems to have been met … in a way. Tesla reportedly uploaded the new software to the first 1,000 vehicles last night. Assuming an earlier tweet from the Tesla CEO held true, that is. This is the tweet that I’m talking about:
HW2 Autopilot software uploading to 1000 cars this eve. Will then hold to verify no field issues and upload to rest of fleet next week.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2016
This tweet followed an earlier one noting that the holdup to rollout was apparently a bug that wouldn’t apply to many people anyway:
Resolving an Autopilot HW2 bug that shows up when booting from a subzero cold-soak. If that fix works, software will start uploading tmrw.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2016
A few other tweets clarified a few other things as well …
What about software 8.1 for those without the new self-driving hardware suite? Late January apparently:
Late Jan, along with Linux kernel upgrade
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2016
What about the promised speed update for the P100D? Sometime soon:
Yes, but held up by Autopilot . It def works tho in shaving 0.1 sec off 0-60mph & 1/4 mile. If AP goes tmrw, then perf upgrade goes Thurs.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2016
I haven’t been able to verify yet if the first 1,000 vehicles got the promised software update, but presumably we’ll know fairly soon. …
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