Mitchfin

Fully autonomous driving, I think this a compelling, I'd love to try it the feature look awesome. Thoughts?

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

gk1

The driverless parking at the end is interesting.
I wonder how far it will go looking for a spot.

Mitchfin

Thats what I was wondering, what happens when it gives up?

Q5 Bob

Maybe it starts cursing through the speakers...

oesman

I can see the headlines now when a sensor malfunctions and dumps control back to the driver: "Man Dies In Tesla Crash While Browsing Adult Content"

We have trained pilots who stop paying attention and crash when autopilot malfunctions, this in the hands of people who will do everything but pay attention to the road will be scary.

White Comet

In the middle of the video, the car goes past the Yellow median line, crossing over to wrong way of the road.

Keep in mind this works flawlessly during perfect conditions.

yvantheterrible

So all Tesla cars will come equipped with it but to activate it will cost $10,000.

I absolutely hate this kind of marketing or should I say sales. They sell you the hardware but you need to cough up an extra 10 grand for the software.

Mitchfin

I think right now it's a steep cost (but really if you're forking up the cash for a current model I hope one could afford it) but I think that Tesla is really onto something here. Forgoing more upfront cost to make it seem more obtainable over time and making cars more modular like this is going to be a big money machine for them in the near future. And honestly maybe you can afford a model 3 now but have a bonus coming up later then you can get a whole new feature set. I would pay Audi to code certain things after the fact, although I've activate most myself.

sprior

The real trick here is that all Teslas (even the ones where the owner doesn't pay for the self driving feature) will be running the code in shadow mode to see how the self driving program would have performed compared to the human that was driving, so what Tesla is getting for putting it every car is a much larger source of safety data.

SFV A4

I feel the only way this will ever work is if ALL cars were so equipped at the same time. When you still have humans driving around, still making all their own mistakes, crashes into other autopilot cars are still going to happen.