The autopilot system of Tesla Motors would not drive on roads or residential streets without center divider.
Tesla Motors does not allow its autopilot feature to drive its vehicles everywhere after a large number of owners took their videos showing handless driving in dangerous areas. The Californian organization also made an addition of a “summon” or self-parking feature to its automobiles on Saturday via an application update through the Internet, which allows the owner to fetch or park his/her automobile remotely from a distance of up to 39 feet.
CEO Elon Musk said during a third quarter conference call that the company would probably update the app in its autopilot feature, after drivers posted a large number of videos while insecure driving, such as book reading or moving to the rear seat while driving.
The new update would not allow Tesla vehicles’ autopilot function on roads or residential streets where a center divider does not exist. The autopilot would not be permitted to surpass the posted limit of speed by over 5 miles per hour.
Tesla added the autopilot system in October, which enables feet and handless driving in anything ranging from highway speeds to go and stop traffic, and has enabled a vehicle to parallel-park itself. The company exclaimed that the autopilot software has gone through a modification to enhance steering in common highway driving. The download, for example, programs the vehicle to identify upcoming curves, and cuts down the speed, as would be done by any human. In the first iteration, the automobile was able to maintain the same pace in the curve.
The park and summon feature lets the owner to come out of the car and park itself in tight spaces found in a parking area, or back out of a spot by itself. The capability of Tesla to modify its cars through over-the-air (OTA) application updates continues to be the largest feature that distinguishes itself from its rivals.
Other companies are making efforts to fill the gap, but rivals have just begun to manage app updates and are focusing on in-vehicle entertainment options. In addition, Musk said in a conference call with reporters yesterday that the company will succeed in expanding the summon ability “coast to coast,” as an individual can have his/her car drive on its own from Los Angeles to New York, stopping to get charged at charging facilities by itself and continuing to drive through the route.
This would of course be requiring automatic, mechanized charging connections on which the company is currently working. “I might be slightly optimistic on that, but I don’t think significantly optimistic that we can do that in two years. This is the first little step in that direction. It's more like remote-control parking," said Musk.
In the current scenario, the highly advanced system is not truly autonomous.
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