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Tesla Autopilot Will Soon Start To Recognise Emergency Vehicles
Tesla Autopilot To Recognise Emergency Vehicles Tesla is developing what is perhaps (and certainly arguably) the best auto-pilot system for cars. How good is it? Well, it managed to drive for 7 miles while its occupant was asleep (and possibly drunk). That rather amusing incident did, however, reveal something of…
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Autopilot Tesla Drove 7 Miles With Drunk Driver Asleep
Autopilot Tesla Drove 7 Miles With Drunk Driver Asleep In terms of automated self-driving cars, Tesla is one of the companies at the forefront of the technology. Having been given the authorisation for use of their vehicles (in limited locations) in America, so far it’s pretty fair to say that…
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Auto-Pilot Cars Risk Drivers Being Over-Confident Says Insurers
Auto-Pilot Cars Risk Drivers Being Over-Confident Says Insurers The way that the automotive industry is pumping money into self-driving cars makes one fact perfectly clear. In some form or another, they are going to play a major part in our future. There are, however, always inherent risks with new technology and…
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New Tesla Update Nags You to Keep Your Hands on the Wheel
The update has already annoyed a number of drivers. We know that Tesla is still working on its Autopilot feature, and while there have been a few accidents lately, the system is getting a bit better with each update. However, since the company insists that the aforementioned crashes were all…
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Elon Musk Says That Tesla Autopilot Will Never Be Perfect
Elon Musk Doubts Autopilot cars will ever be perfect I think it’s a fairly safe conclusion to say that in 20 to 30 years time, autopilot cars will be a reasonably common thing. Before I continue, I fully and freely admit like any bad sci-fi film from the 1950’s, my…
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See the World through the Eyes of Tesla’s Autonomous Driving System!
The autonomous driving system developed by Tesla is definitely one of the most advanced in the world, but the company is still trying to bring it as close to perfection as possible. This makes sense, of course, since we’re talking about human lives here, and even though Tesla self-driving cars have…
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Tesla Autopilot Update to Rely More on Radar
Earlier this month, Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder, teased an upcoming update to the autonomous driving assist system, Autopilot. Musk noted that the 8.0 update to the software would provide more advanced processing of radar signals, but now the visionary entrepreneur has detailed just what this will mean for Autopilot. All…
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Elon Musk Teases a Major Upgrade to Tesla’s Autopilot
Tesla’s Autopilot autonomous driving software has received a lot of mixed feedback recently, both being blamed for fatal incidents but also praised by a man who believed that the software saved his life. There is no doubt that the software is currently far from perfect and Tesla is hardly…
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Tesla Improving Autopilot With Even More Sensors
With all of the Tesla news regarding its autopilot feature, a system designed to take people from A to B with little to no human interaction, the system has come under recent scrutiny with several people holding it responsible for crashes and a death possibly being linked to the system. The…
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Tesla’s Autopilot May Have Saved a Man’s Life
With the recent safety allegations against Tesla’s driving assistance feature after a recent incident, some may have come to question whether the Autopilot software is actually a more of a hazard than a help. Now the feature may have just saved the life of a driver in Missouri who suffered…
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Elon Musk Leaps to Defend Tesla Autopilot Following Fatality
Elon Musk has rushed to the defence of Autopilot, the autonomous driving program onboard his company’s premier electric sedan, following the first reported fatality related to the software. Last week it was revealed that Joshua Brown was killed in a car crash after the Autopilot of his Tesla Model S…
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Killed Tesla Driver Previously Saved from Crash by Autopilot
Joshua Brown, who sadly lost his life in a road traffic accident while his Tesla Model S was in Autopilot mode, was saved from a collision with a boom lift truck by the car’s self-driving technology a matter of weeks before the fatal incident. Back in April of this year,…
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Killed Tesla Driver Reportedly Watched Harry Potter During Crash
The victim of the first reported fatality related to Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving technology may have been watching a Harry Potter movie during the crash, according to the driver of the truck the electric car collided with. Joshua Brown’s Tesla Model S electric car crashed into the trailer of Frank Baressi’s 18-wheel…
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Tesla Reports First Autopilot-Related Death
Tesla Motors has revealed the sad news that one of its electric cars was involved in a crash while in Autopilot mode, resulting in the death of the driver. The incident occurred on 7th May in Williston, Florida when the Autopilot feature of Joshua Brown’s Model S failed to recognise…
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Tesla Driver Accuses Car of Crashing Itself
A Tesla Model X owner who, with his wife, was involved in a crash, has blamed the car’s autopilot feature for the accident. Puzant Ozbag crashed his Tesla into a building in Irvine, California at high-speed, and the driver accused the car itself of causing the crash after it accelerated…
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