Tesla is rolling out its new Autopilot system this week — here's everything you need to know (TSLA)
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A few lucky Tesla owners will get to try out new Autopilot features this week.
Tesla is rolling out new Autopilot features enabled by its second-generation hardware system this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter over the weekend. Musk first announced in October that cars currently in production will be equipped with new hardware that will improve Autopilot and enable full autonomy later on.
Tesla is rolling out some of the new Autopilot features enabled by the second-generation hardware system to a group of 1,000 testers on Monday. People outside the test group with the new cars will get the update by the end of the week "if all looks good," Musk said.
Here are the features going live this week and a breakdown of how the new Autopilot system works:
Tesla vehicles built between September 2014 and October 2016 were equipped with one camera used for Autopilot. But new Tesla cars now have eight cameras that provide 360-degree visibility and 250 meters (820 feet) of range.
Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty ImagesNew Tesla cars still come with one radar sensor, but it has enhanced processing that allows it to see through heavy rain, fog, dust, and even a car in front of it.
TeslaTesla is also still using 12 ultrasonic sensors — however, they have been updated to detect hard and soft objects at nearly twice the distance of the previous sensors.
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