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The latest version of Tesla’s Autopilot software, 8.0, is expected to be sent over-the-air to vehicles sometime next week.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has affirmed that he hopes that it will be online by Wednesday, which will be on September 21, 2016. However, his statement was made on Twitter in reply to another user, so the date is not official, as one would expect from a press release, but rather a publicly expressed hope of the CEO.
As we previously explained in a story related to the new Autopilot firmware, Tesla has brought radar technology to the same level of importance as the camera setup of the Model S and Model X cars.
Thanks to the update, the models of the American automaker will be more capable of spotting obstacles ahead, and false positives will be eliminated through GPS mapping.
Tesla is under the spotlight these days because American authorities want to clarify the final details of the fatal Model S accident that occurred this May in Florida. Also, Tesla and Mobileye, one of its former suppliers, are in a feud, which each party describes that it started for a different reason.
One one hand, Tesla says that Mobileye wanted out of its contract with the automaker because it found that Tesla Motors was developing its individual program of driver assistance systems.
On the other hand, the Israeli supplier claims that Tesla has pushed the boundaries of existing technology too far, risking occupant safety, Automotive News notes. The collaboration between Tesla and Mobileye was known as it did not have any plans for expansion beyond the EyeQ3 product.
In another reply on Twitter, Elon Musk told a customer that praised the P100D with the Ludicrous mode that the cars will probably not get a bigger battery than the 100 kWh unit currently installed.
However, Elon said that he “hinks "we will probably stop at,” so there is a chance that the batteries in ongoing models from the Tesla range might get bigger over their lifecycle.
As we previously explained in a story related to the new Autopilot firmware, Tesla has brought radar technology to the same level of importance as the camera setup of the Model S and Model X cars.
Thanks to the update, the models of the American automaker will be more capable of spotting obstacles ahead, and false positives will be eliminated through GPS mapping.
Tesla is under the spotlight these days because American authorities want to clarify the final details of the fatal Model S accident that occurred this May in Florida. Also, Tesla and Mobileye, one of its former suppliers, are in a feud, which each party describes that it started for a different reason.
One one hand, Tesla says that Mobileye wanted out of its contract with the automaker because it found that Tesla Motors was developing its individual program of driver assistance systems.
On the other hand, the Israeli supplier claims that Tesla has pushed the boundaries of existing technology too far, risking occupant safety, Automotive News notes. The collaboration between Tesla and Mobileye was known as it did not have any plans for expansion beyond the EyeQ3 product.
In another reply on Twitter, Elon Musk told a customer that praised the P100D with the Ludicrous mode that the cars will probably not get a bigger battery than the 100 kWh unit currently installed.
However, Elon said that he “hinks "we will probably stop at,” so there is a chance that the batteries in ongoing models from the Tesla range might get bigger over their lifecycle.
@vicentes @EdibleApple Hoping to start WW rollout of 8.0 on Wednesday if no last minute issues discovered.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 16, 2016
@danielringdahl @P100D Glad you like it! I think we will probably stop at 100 kWh on battery size.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 16, 2016
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