Tesla kills Autopilot for good
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Here's what's happening: If you buy a new Tesla car in the U.S., you will no longer receive the Basic Autopilot set of features, which was previously included with every Tesla. Instead, you're getting Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, which is a feature that maintains set driving speed and slows down when there's a slower vehicle in front of you.
The company is also currently facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California for deceptive marketing about Autopilot's capabilities.
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Tesla currently offers a pair of so-called “level 2” partially automated driver assist systems. Autopilot is the older of these, combining Tesla’s adaptive cruise control (Tesla calls this TACC) and lane-keeping assist (Tesla calls this Autosteer).
Tesla has officially discontinued Autopilot in the US and Canada, leaving all new owners with no free driver assistance system besides adaptive cruise control
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla made a couple of moves this week — and just before its quarterly earnings drops — designed to show its progress,
There’s another wrinkle in things. Even though General Motors and Ford charge a subscription fee for their hands-free driving assists— SuperCruise and BlueCruise, respectively—it comes with a three-year trial period. Tesla will charge $99 per month after 30 days.
Tesla is killing its basic Autopilot mode in North America, encouraging customers to pay for a $99 full self-driving subscription instead.
Tesla will stop selling the Full Self-Driving (FSD) system as a one-time option. Elon Musk has announced this on X (Twitter)."Tesla will stop selling FSD after
Tesla has removed Autopilot from all new vehicles sold in the United States and Canada, making Full Self-Driving (FSD) the only available driver-assistance upgrade.