Tesla’s full self-driving autonomous vehicle feature is coming. An image leaked on Tuesday apparently shows the new user interface of a test-car. The image shows how the autopilot software/system views and interprets the world. The view has strong similarities to previous autonomous driving videos released by Tesla, there is now an option called "full self-driving” indicating a more advanced mode suggesting complete autonomy of the car.
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The new feature builds on Tesla's current autopilot through software updates, but this is still speculative.
“... [we are] pretty excited about how much progress we’re making on the neural net front ... [it will] feel like, ‘well this is a lame driver, lame driver, well actually this is a pretty good driver, like holy cow this driver’s good.’”
It is unclear on when full autonomy will ship to the masses. Elon Musk said during a call in February that autonomy was around three to six months away, but he also said during a panel discussion at SXSW, last month that “self-driving will encompass all modes of driving by the end of the next year [2019].”
The autonomous future of cars is seemingly very nearly here.