Featured Tesla cautiously addresses upcoming Autopilot 2.0 software update

Since you posted tesla has put out 2 minor updates of autopilot.

From reading updated information, part of the slow roll out, is hardware 2.5 went out in august, and they needed to get the software working on the new hardware. The model 3 has a driver facing camera as well but that does not seem to be implemented yet.

It seems now, autopilot version 8.1 - 2017 44 released last weekend, does most things as well as autopilot 1 did, while increasing safety. Automated Local Road Lane Change is in software but disabled until they determine this is safe. It can do automated lane changes on interstate highways.

The two main features it is missing
1) Ability to read speed limit signs
2) Auto wipers from seeing the rain

IMHO 2 is really stupid, they should have been putting rain sensors in the car, its a cheap part, and would probably make the autowipers more effective even after they have the software working.

The new features appear to be

GM Supercruise appears to do 2 things better than tesla's autopilot. First it looks at the driver to check for paying attention. This gets rid of the need to feel the drivers hands on the wheel. The second is that the new cadillac appears to turn smoother.

The new camera in the model 3 should allow tesla to do this same trick. GM supercruise remembers how to drive the curvers, while the model S thinks about how to drive on the curved road based on other cars and markings. GM's system can only work on highways it has mapped, while the tesla system can work anywhere. As tesla's get more miles they should learn to turn better, but perhaps they should create new databases of curves, and how drivers best drove them, and implement a remembered system too ;-)