Tuesday, November 19

Tesla Full Self-Driving has flaws in its latest update


Tesla Full Self-Driving es un sistema de conducción semiautónoma de nivel 2, según la escala SAE.
Tesla Full Self-Driving is a level 2 semi-autonomous driving system, according to the SAE scale.

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After the launch of the new Full Self-Driving update, announced a few weeks ago, Tesla registered some problems that forced it to suspend it , as reported by Roadshow . The semi-autonomous driving system of level 2 on the scale of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE, for its acronym in English), reached its beta version for a few hours 09. 3, but due to these inconveniences the update was reverted to the previous version.

Seeing some issues with 10. 3, so rolling back to 10. 2 temporarily.

Please note, this is to be expected with beta software. It is impossible to test all hardware configs in all conditions with internal QA, hence public beta.

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 21, 2021

The problems were reported by users on social networks, who assured that their cars were not responding to certain functions after the update went into progress . According to the claims of such owners, the failures were related to some safety systems, such as automatic emergency braking or forward collision warnings, features that did not work properly during the march. Some people also experienced their cars stopping suddenly without their intervention. All these facts made Elon Musk, CEO of the company, soon comment on the matter through Twitter, as usual, offering some details about the measure.

Foto del interior de un Model Y de Tesla
As part of its investigation, NHTSA intends to compare the performance of Autopilot with other systems similar existing in the industry./ Photo: courtesy Tesla.

Through your official account, Elon Musk assured that this measure will be temporary and recalled that this type of update depends a lot on the intervention of users , therefore , is not without its problems. The granting of certain responsibility to drivers has also been one of the measures that the company has implemented after the began the investigation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) : to determine the role of drivers in various crashes of their cars against emergency vehicles while they were in autopilot, Tesla will implement the use of cameras inside the cockpit from now on .

Foto del interior del Model 3 de Tesla
With the launch, the company offered greater openness so that owners would have the opportunity to test their technology, as long as they registered a good performance. / Photo: courtesy Tesla.

Despite being considered by the company as a system that offers complete autonomy , Full Self-Driving does not correspond to this The description is not at level 5, which is the maximum level set by the SAE to designate fully autonomous vehicles. In that sense, because it is at level 2, it really is a semi-autonomous driving system that requires the presence of the driver in order to operate safely.

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