Earlier this month, Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk told reporters that the new autopilot will make his company’s vehicles one of the safest on the road, and may have prevented the May accident.
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Updates have become a regular fixture with phones, tablets and computers, but they’re yet to fully take hold in the vehicle world.
Voice commands: Voice commands can now be used with a single tap (as opposed to the previous method of holding a button down).
The company said Thursday the driver-assist has been tuned to drive more smoothly in stop-and-go traffic.
Autosteer is now capable of navigating highway interchanges.
Another new feature is the cabin overheat protection function..
Tesla has added or refined 200 Autopilot functions, not least of which is the warning indicator to inform the driver when Autopilot has been engaged (now clearer). With radar, it should also be able to spot hazards two cars ahead of the vehicle and prepare better for heavy braking. When activated, the system uses the car’s battery pack to run the air conditioning and keep the cabin temperature below 105° F (41° C).
Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the Autopilot improvements might have prevented a crash that killed an OH man in May, when his Model S slammed into a truck.
The updates follow a May crash that put Tesla in the hot seat.
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