Just before the new year began to roll in across the globe, Tesla announced a significant software update to its Autopilot feature for a select handful of ?Hardware 2? vehicles produced after October 2016 that enable full self-driving capabilities.
To put the update in context, it is first important to give a brief history of Tesla?s autopilot feature rollout. A few months ago, company chief executive Elon Musk announced that all Model S and Model X vehicles produced at the company?s Fremont, California factory after October would include an upgraded self-driving Autopilot hardware suite called ?Hardware 2.? Rather than featuring a single monochrome camera and twelve ultrasonic sensors, these vehicles are now equipped with eight cameras, one radar antenna, twelve ultrasonic sensors with double the range, and Nvidia?s Drive PX 2 computing platform with updated image processing software.
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