Elon Musk: Tesla will ‘most likely’ begin computer chip upgrades this year

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the business will “probably ” start upgrading older electric vehicles using its new customized processor later this season — a lofty job that may involve retrofitting thousands and thousands of Model S, X and 3s.

Musk tweeted Sunday night that the upgrades will start most likely at the end of the fourth quarter.

End of Q4, probably

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 8, 2019

Musk didn’t supply other details. He has previously said that the upgrade will be free for owners who bought the whole self-driving attribute, a software bundle that costs $6,000.

Tesla provides two distinct innovative driver assistance packages to clients: Autopilot and Full Self-Driving or FSD. Autopilot is ADAS that supplies a mix of adaptive cruise control and lane steering and is currently a standard feature on new automobiles . FSD includes Summon as well as Navigate on Autopilot, an energetic guidance system that navigates an automobile from a highway on-ramp to off-ramp, including interchanges and making lane changes.

While Tesla charges for the FSD program bundle, the vehicles are not fully autonomous.  Musk has assured that the innovative driver assistance capacities on Tesla vehicles may continue to increase until finally reaching that complete automation high-water mark.

Anyone who bought full self-driving will receive FSD computer upgrade for free. Here is the only switch between Autopilot HW2.5 & HW3. Going ahead “HW3” will only be known as FSD Computer, that will be true. No modification to vehicle sensors or wire harness needed. This is crucially significant. https://t.co/lICMpT7xnX

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 29, 2019

The custom chip unveiled in April has been couched as a essential hardware upgrade to accomplish that goal. Since March, new Model X and S vehicles also have come equipped with the processor. The Model 3 followed a month later.

The custom processor was a landmark for the company. But, it faces the considerable challenge of upgrading a large number of so-called “Hardware two ” vehicles, and of course the continuous evolution of the program.

Tesla began producing electric vehicles with a more robust suite of detectors, radar, and detectors — known as Hardware 2– at October 2016 beneath the premise and the promise that it had the hardware needed to finally drive without human intervention. At that time, the business also began promoting the updated complete self-driving bundle that Musk said would finally reach that ambitious target.

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