Lane changes

2018.21.9 release notes and video

See release notes below. The improvement showing the adjacent lanes’ cars is new in AP2 and AP2.5.

2018.32.2.1 introduced lane departure avoidance and emergency lane departure avoidance for Model S and Model X

This has been out for several weeks for Model 3 but just got released for Model S and Model X. Thanks Sofiaan!

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2018.48.1 NoAP now prompts to move out of passing lane

Now we just need enough people on Teslas and with NoAP so the passing lane in California can be actually used for… passing :)

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AP2 allowing changing lanes in roads that weren't available before

Multiple people have reported this in Norway, Finland, and the Netherlands.

Auto-Lane change in real-world driving scenarios

Blinker detection in AP when merging in traffic

We’d all love our Tesla to predict when cars are merging, specially when there’s a lot of traffic. It seems this feature is already in development, according to Elon Musk’s tweet.

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Changing lanes away from cones

As far as I know, this is only for HW3 cars running 2019.36.1 or later. For what is worth one person on Twitter told us that if there are cones on both sides of the road the car keeps on switching lanes, I guess there is still some unwrinkling to do.

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Example of emergency lane departure avoidance working as intended

Onwer ended up with his head in the clouds (his words, not mine) for a moment, and didn’t notice how the road was curving. The emergency lane departure feature saved him from an expensive repair.

First look at Tesla v10 release notes: Here’s what’s coming

v10 got released to folks in the Early Access Program a few days ago, here’s what’s new:

• Tesla Theater: As Elon advanced on Twitter, Tesla are getting Netflix and YouTube through dedicated apps
• Caraoke: Card + Karaoke = Caraoke. This feature allows users to sign along their favorite tracks. According to the release notes, this feature is only available while in park. We think it’d be fun to have it while driving too, for passengers only of course
• Cuphead: Tesla Arcade is getting some serious games, Cuphead was announced a while ago and now is hitting the cars
• I’m feeling lucky / I’m feeling hungry: As we advanced a few weeks ago thanks to greentheonly, these two options are now part of the navigation
• Maps improvements: When searching for a destination the autocomplete now shows the distance to the place
• Sentry mode improvements: Sentry mode now records videos in a new folder to easily distinguish between Sentry recorded videos and Dashcam videos that you saved. It also overrides older Sentry videos when full
• Joe Mode: Quieter chimes to avoid waking up your Joe’s family
• Driving visuals: Additional objects, lane lines, and adjust the zoom and viewing angle
• Automatic lane change: The visualization now displays where the car is going

Read more: Teslarati

First look at warning and steering back into the lane without AP on

Lane departure avoidance in action

As we said above lane departure avoidance has been out for a while for the Model 3 but it’s new for Model S and Model X, here is a good look at it in action.

Mad Max mode is real

Elon’s screenshot has revealed not only blind spot detection with different modes when changing lanes including Mad Max mode (woot?!) but also:

• Follow nav: The car would follow the navigation directions
• Blinker to fork: some people seem to think that this is the possibility of telling the car where to go on a fork by using the blinker
• ULC: maybe Unassisted Lane Change?

Read more: Twitter

More news about v9 release

The wide release of v9 isn’t here yet but there is a lot of new information about it - as you will see by the amount of videos and photos below. Elon Musk said “Got to make sure we iron out the details though. Long tail of tricky edge cases”. Some news since last week are:

• Confirmation that EAP in v9 uses the repeater and the b pillar cameras.
• New neural network for the rearview camera. Rumors before v9 were that it wasn’t going to be used for EAP or FSD since it didn’t have any neural network, it seems like it is going to be used!
• ‘Navigate on AutoPilot’ but… ‘Automatic Lane Change’ is gone. The driver will have to do a single pull on the AP stalk to confirm the lane change. From there the car will turn on the blinker, change lanes, and turn it off.
• Allows lane changes at any speed (not just above 30mph), and will slow down and find a place in traffic to merge. appleguru used it today in heavy traffic to merge in moving 2-3mph and was really impressed.
• Uses maps to help with navigating tricky road sections.

These and much more on the TMC thread

Tesla Lane Departure Avoidance (v2019.16.2)

Michael - aka Teslatunity - went through this feature on his Model 3 running 2018.16.2, definetly worth watching!

Tesla v9 Beta: AP drive by nav feature

As we stated above “Auto Lane Change” isn’t getting shipped in the first release of v9 but here is an awesome video by dennis_d from TMC. These are his words:

“Car drives itself. Mad Max mode enabled. Turn confirmation is disabled. The car basically drives itself, whenever you see a blue line in the middle it’s driven by autopilot.

It actually drove pretty well, there were couple moments where I had to take over, cause I thought it going to do something stupid like turn between two cars in the very tight space (I was on Mad Max mode tho). Had two moments with phantom braking next to a track.

All the turns AP was doing itself, I didn’t touch the stalk. There were two moments with red lines where I wanted to overtake (red lines) but it seems to handle it like a boss.”

What's in Tesla's software update 2019.40.1.1

2019.40.1.1 started rolling out on November 27th, here are the highlights:

• Model 3 Standard Range and Standard Range Plus have now a charging rate of up to 170 kW, while the Mid Range can go up to 200 kW
• Automatic wiper improvements
• Automatic lane change improvements

As of today, it seems Tesla has stopped the rollout of this version. We’ll keep updating this article as we get new information.

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