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‘Summon Your Tesla Across Continents In Future’: Autopilot Completes 1 Billion Miles, Elon Musk Rejoices
Swarajya Staff
Nov 29, 2018, 12:20 PM | Updated 12:20 PM IST
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Tesla users across the globe have completed a humungous one billion auto pilot assisted miles, tweeted Tesla. The total autopilot assisted miles accounts to 10 per cent of the total miles driven by all Tesla cars. CEO Elon Musk sees the future in ‘Full Self-Driving’ cars.
Meanwhile continuing their research and development, today cars are shipped with basic autopilot features such as Automatic emergency braking, front collision warning and side collision warning.
With an additional $5,000 Tesla’s can be upgraded with to the ‘Enhanced Autopilot’ feature in which the car can steer, brake and accelerate through almost any traffic lane. It can also navigate on most highways, and can navigate to interchanges and exits.
Tesla follows the strategy of shipping cars with necessary hardware for fully self-driving cars with over-the-air software updates that unlock new features day by day.
As of today Tesla owners have driven 1 billion (!) miles with Autopilot engaged pic.twitter.com/16jMYrAZ7u
— Tesla (@Tesla) November 28, 2018
Responding to a post by Tesla customer who used the summon feature of Tesla to board his car, Musk cheered with a retweet about the functioning of the summon feature.
The feature allows the customer to park and retrieve the car by controlling through Tesla’s mobile app.
You can summon your Tesla from your phone. Only short distances today, but in a few years summon will work from across the continent. https://t.co/Xcj67ajZ8H
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2018
Musk added “In a few years it can be summoned across the continents”, hinting at the self-driving features.
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