Tesla’s autonomous ‘coast-to-coast’ drive on hold while Autopilot team focuses on safety - Know The World News

Thursday, 2 August 2018

Tesla’s autonomous ‘coast-to-coast’ drive on hold while Autopilot team focuses on safety

Tesla’s autonomous coast-to-coast drive, originally promised in 2016, is on hold while the company’s Autopilot team stays “heads down” on improving the driver assist system’s safety features, Elon Musk said in a call with investors Wednesday. Musk also teased a new software update to Autopilot — version 9.0 — coming in September that he said would be a stark improvement over the current version.

Tesla built a new version of its semi-autonomous system, known as Autopilot, in 2016 after a public breakup with the original supplier of the technology. Shortly after unveiling the replacement hardware and software, Musk claimed that the company’s new version — Autopilot 2.0 — would be good enough that a car equipped with it would complete a...

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