Tesla leak confirms 100-year Aussie first
A Tesla leak has confirmed the biggest change in Aussie motoring in a century is rolling out on roads across the country.
A Tesla leak has confirmed the biggest change in Aussie motoring in a century is rolling out on roads across the country.
Elon Musk’s EV giant on Friday began the Australian rollout of its Fully Self-Driving (Supervised) software with select clients.
A handful of company employees who own Teslas and an exclusive group of influencers had the software update downloaded and enabled on their vehicles overnight and are now operating the FSD (supervised) on our roads.
Tesla invited a handful of reporters to experience the feature on public streets in Queensland – not a private road or test track.
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A wider rollout of the ‘game-changing software’ for Tesla customers is expected in the next few weeks.
That means Tesla owners who drive the company’s latest models and have already paid for the FSD (Supervised) software or want to purchase it will be able to do so very soon.
Depending on the software configurations of individual vehicles, the FSD (Supervised) update will cost between around $5000 and $10,000.
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It now means self-driving cars are operating on Australia roads.
After much bluster and hype, Musk has delivered on his promise to be the first to bring the tech into the cabins of Aussie cars.
It’s arguably the biggest change to Aussie motoring since petrol cars such as the Model T Ford were first driven in Australia over a century ago.
BREAKING: Tesla is officially launching FSD (Supervised) in Australia! Every new Tesla sold will come with a 30-day trial of FSD (Supervised), will start at $10,100 or via subscription, and the rollout will begin with HW4 Tesla Model 3 & Ys. Let’s go @Tesla! pic.twitter.com/wtJe0SSJAy
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ENORMOUS ADVANTAGE
The cutting edge technology has already been rolled out in larger markets including the US and China.
Known as Full Self Driving (Supervised), the tech will be an option for customers who own the brand’s latest models, one that gives Tesla an enormous edge over the competition.
Tesla states this new technology is “not autonomous driving”, but it is close.
Officially, this is a Level 2 Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS), compliant with all current state and federal laws.
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Level 2 ADAS means the driver must remain in control, keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel and is treated the same as adaptive cruise control or lane-keeping assist.
But Tesla’s system are far more advanced than that.
Unlike space-age rivals such as Google’s Waymo, which use expensive LIDAR and radar sensors, Tesla relies on vision only.
Eight exterior cameras feed into a powerful on-board computer running neural networks trained on billions of kilometres of driving data uploaded by Tesla owners worldwide.
The data then constructs a real-time representation of the road environment.
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It reads road markings, traffic lights, pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles, then calculates the most probable path forward. Tesla argues this approach is closer to how humans see and react, never tired and never drunk.
The latest FSD (Supervised) software version 12 guides the car, allowing it to accelerate, brake, steer, signal, and merge, but legally and practically.
It’s somewhat akin to supervising a learner driver – you watch, but don’t need to hold the wheel.
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