A Utah man’s parked Tesla Model S recently went “rogue” and somehow crashed itself into the back of a parked truck, according to reports. The owner of the Model S involved has claimed that, after parking the car, standing outside for a 30-second or minute-long conversation, and then heading into a … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. While no one using Tesla’s new Summon feature to call their car to the curb where they are waiting is likely to be too worried about being struck by the car themselves, parents of small children or owners of small pets are probably at the … [continued]
Full Disclaimer — I am an owner of Tesla stock (and a Model S). I’m in it for the long run and have been reviewing / critiquing / drooling over Tesla long before I had any financial skin in the game. Consumer Reports has had a love-hate relationship with Tesla, … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. While Tesla owners in the US have had access to the company’s new semi-autonomous “Summon” feature — which allows owners to send their car to autonomously park itself, or summon it to the front door from the garage, etc — owners in many other countries … [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]
Originally published on EV Obsession. The Tesla Model X is definitely rolling out in force now. I keep seeing notes from people who saw their first one in person, and more and more videos are rolling out from early owners. I’ve pulled together a handful of Model X videos that I … [continued]
Update: Tesla also published an official video for Summon today which formally adds it to the Autopilot suite: On the heels of the soft launch of firmware version 7.1 this past weekend, Tesla dropped a new blog post with the official perspective on the latest firmware release and it contains a … [continued]
When Autopilot was first rolled out to the masses, we saw some dumb and just plain scary videos popping up on YouTube. With the software being a beta release, these kinds of moves seemed just plain reckless. Coming out of the initial launch, we reported that Tesla was working on … [continued]
Elon Musk’s promise to deliver a fully functional self-driving car within the near future appears to have some truth to it — it seems to have not been an exaggeration, in other words (despite his habit of overstating things). The company has reportedly begun testing software that will allow the Model S to “drive … [continued]
