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Written by Ollie Kew
All current and future Teslas will be built with a Full Self Driving Hardware" package, the US electric car company has announced. Think of the tech as the next step on from Autopilot, allowing Model S, Model X and Model 3 cars to not just cruise along the motorway, but tackle junctions, overtakes, twisting rural roads and even read which parking bays it"s allowed to use without human input. Add that all together and you arrive at the Tesla Summon function, which founder Elon Musk claims will allow cars to travel across entire countries to meet their owners without a driver on board, charging at unmanned Superchargers along the way.The video here, curiously overlaid with The Rolling Stones" Paint It Black, demonstrates how Teslas will use over-the-shoulder cameras to check blind spots, read signs and signal appropriately. Elon Musk tweeted following the video"s release: "When searching for parking, the car reads the signs to see if it is allowed to park there, which is why it skipped the disabled spot." Clever stuffThe hardware itself comprises no fewer than eight surround-view cameras, peering ahead a range of up to 250m. Radar and ultrasonic sensors also feature, apparently able to distinguish between hard and soft objects twice as far away as the previous version of Autopilot. Tesla says its forward-facing radar is unaffected by rain, low sun, dust and can even look through" the car in front, to study if traffic is building up or if there"s a sharp bend or blind brow ahead.
Date written: 20 Oct 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5495
All current and future Teslas will be built with a Full Self Driving Hardware" package, the US electric car company has announced. Think of the tech as the next step on from Autopilot, allowing Model S, Model X and Model 3 cars to not just cruise along the motorway, but tackle junctions, overtakes, twisting rural roads and even read which parking bays it"s allowed to use without human input. Add that all together and you arrive at the Tesla Summon function, which founder Elon Musk claims will allow cars to travel across entire countries to meet their owners without a driver on board, charging at unmanned Superchargers along the way.The video here, curiously overlaid with The Rolling Stones" Paint It Black, demonstrates how Teslas will use over-the-shoulder cameras to check blind spots, read signs and signal appropriately. Elon Musk tweeted following the video"s release: "When searching for parking, the car reads the signs to see if it is allowed to park there, which is why it skipped the disabled spot." Clever stuffThe hardware itself comprises no fewer than eight surround-view cameras, peering ahead a range of up to 250m. Radar and ultrasonic sensors also feature, apparently able to distinguish between hard and soft objects twice as far away as the previous version of Autopilot. Tesla says its forward-facing radar is unaffected by rain, low sun, dust and can even look through" the car in front, to study if traffic is building up or if there"s a sharp bend or blind brow ahead.
Date written: 20 Oct 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5495
