Tesla Autopilot Now Has A Big Hissyfit If You Don't Use It Properly
As well as a whole raft of improvements thanks to the implementation of radar, Tesla’s Autopilot v8.0 also takes a much more stern approach to users who don’t do as they’re told.
As shown in the video above, you can still keep your hands off the wheel for a considerable amount of time - over four minutes, in this demonstration. However, once the system decides you should really be holding the wheel, you only get three warnings. Ignore them, and you’re locked out of the ‘Autosteer’ feature “for the rest of This Drive”. By that, the car means when the car’s in park. Put the car back in drive, and your warnings are ‘reset’.
Tesla’s Autopilot system has been in the spotlight recently, amidst news of what’s been labeled as the first ever autonomous car fatality - a crash in Florida which claimed the life of Joshua D. Brown - plus a fatal accident that happened in China earlier in the year that could also be Autopilot-related.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that Autopilot v8.0 should cut Autopilot crashes by half, and that the newest version of the system would have saved Brown’s life.
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Two things, first is that his better went down 3% in this video (Yikes!), and the second thing is that i was wondering if when it asks you to put your hands on the wheel, can you just touch it for a second then pull your hands away again? Or will the autopilot turn off? Anyone see a video about that?
It’s like apple phones… When you enter the passcode wrong it locks you out
you will never wake up to a car that says it doesn’t love you,,,
unless you own a tesla in which case it will probably lock you of it if you piss it off..
The real problem with this is that this won’t totally stop people from just pulling over and turning the car off and then starting it again so that it resets.
Cool concept car,just not the looks i was looking for