Tesla Motors has announced a new update to its self-driving auto system, following a fatality in one of its electric cars earlier this year.
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Tesla’s head Elon Musk mentioned that improvements in the company’s Autopilot technology could have prevented the accident on May7 in Ohio.
Regardless of the update, the Tesla head is not promising one hundred percent safety, “Perfect safety is really an impossible goal, it’s about improving the probability of safety”.
The guys from Tesla Motors’ Autopilot technology have made a move to upgrade its vehicles’ radar function following a crash reported months back.
Musk called the upgrades a “massive enhancement”, but he said that Tesla cars are already the safest on the road.
The so-called “false alarm” braking that would result from this has left radar on the sidelines behind the main Autopilot cameras and image processors.
Tesla believes the switch to making the onboard radar the primary control sensor will reduce the potential risk of collisions.
Musk cautioned the improvement “doesn’t mean ideal safety”.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the electric auto company is making major improvements to the Autopilot system used by its vehicles, which will dramatically reduce the number and severity of crashes they’re involved in. “There won’t ever be zero fatalities”.
Tesla’s 8.0 update to its Autopilot software will be rolled out within a few weeks.
Instead it’s merely the latest stage in Tesla’s continual improvement of its products. Therefore conditions in which a human would normally struggle driving, like fog, dust, rain and snow, Tesla’s autopilot can now perform well in. He claimed that with the improved radar system of the technology, Autopilot would be able to see large metal objects across the road and determine if the object does or does not pose a threat. Drivers still will need to stay attentive and, he noted, if they aren’t, if they refuse to put their hands of the wheel and ignore alarms, the vehicle won’t stay in Autopilot. Safety activists such as Consumer Reports have urged Tesla to disable the automatic steering function and to stop marketing the system as an Autopilot.
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