Tesla is apparently really eager to get Model S drivers sipping the autopilot kool aid, and it’s kicking efforts into high gear. Model S owners with Autopilot hardware but who did not purchase the option are starting to get in-car popups pitching a free 30-day trial of autopilot. While Tesla has not … [continued]
Bjørn Nyland has scored some facetime with a new Model S sporting the April 2016 upgrade and does a nice job of talking through some of the obvious physical differences in the car vs the legacy Model S. The video walkthrough also gives great perspective as to what the car … [continued]
Insider sources confirmed that Elon Musk was recently out in Israel at the headquarters of Active Safety and Autonomous Driving tech company Mobileye. Mobileye has been a key supplier of Tesla since the early days and continues to be the core of Tesla’s autopilot hardware suite.
One of the things that Google continues to brag about is how many miles its cars have been driven around under its software’s control. The company also announced that, since 2009, its fleet of 55 autonomous cars have driven a total of over 1.4 million miles on actual roads around the Bay … [continued]
Users over at the Tesla Motors Club forum recently brought up the possibility of the Tesla Model S being able to detect alignment issues using only the existing set of sensors. Leveraging onboard sensors — including those included with the autopilot suite — TMC members theorize that it is plausible that the car should … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. Autopilot on the Tesla Model S only went live (in production vehicles) a few weeks back, and with that, many drivers are only recently getting to try it out in adverse weather conditions. One of the more challenging scenarios we encounter here in Southern California … [continued]
This 11th and final article pulled from Electric Cars: What Early Adopters & First Followers Want — a new report from CleanTechnica, EV Obsession, and GAS2 — is a summary of the whole report. Of course, I encourage you to read through the entire report, at least in parts here on CleanTechnica (where you can also … [continued]
Tesla is making an intentional, full-force push into China by way of focused attention on the dense urban centers, starting with Hong Kong. A recently released official Tesla Motors video supported a trip Elon made to the high-tech city where he was interviewed at Invest HK. Both videos brag about how … [continued]
A new official Tesla Motors video shows off the current state of the Tesla autopilot suite and asks/teases/challenges viewers to “Revolutionize Your Commute.” The engaging video walks through a day in the life of an autopilot-enabled Model S and demos many of the newly added autopilot features, like: Summon, Autosteer, Auto Lane … [continued]
Pay no attention to that self-driving car behind the curtain, Ford ain’t talking (yet) about rumors linking it to Google for automatic driving technology.
