Teslas to get new self-driving, Autopilot chip in spring 2019

Tesla Model 3 dashboard in Autopilot testing with IIHS [CREDIT: IIHS]Tesla chief executive officer Elon Musk took to Twitter Tuesday to announce that owners will get a new Autopilot chip in about six months that will be much more powerful and enable the company’s long-awaited Full-Self Driving Mode. In a series of tweets, Musk said that owners who have prepaid for the Full Self-Driving Mode feature in their…
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Tesla drivers say latest software update disabled Autopilot

Tesla Model 3 dashboard in Autopilot testing with IIHS [CREDIT: IIHS]Since Tesla began rolling out the latest version of Autopilot, many drivers have said the new software hasn’t been so much an upgrade as a defeat of the system. A report in Jalopnik Thursday cited several owners on Tesla user forums reporting that their cars’ Autopilot systems no longer work since the update. One user even said that his Model 3…
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