Nearly nine years ago, Elon Musk promised Tesla vehicles to support a self -driving car. This week, his last confession was presented that many of them are not.
Musk said at a phone conference on Wednesday evening that the Tesla cars equipped with the so -called devices 3 will need to be upgraded before they can support the non -supervision self -driving program that is still being developed by the auto industry company. These vehicles 3 are equipped for the devices, which are sold between 2019 and 2023, with the oldest version of the computer that runs the “supervising) driver’s” supervising) driver’s assistance program “.
He said: “I think the sincere answer is that we will have to upgrade the People hardware 3 computer for those who bought full self -driving.” “This will be painful and difficult, but we will do it.”
This is not surprising to anyone who follows the company closely.
On a large scale, Musk has been repeatedly overwhelmed with the Tesla timetable to sell a vehicle you can drive independently without human intervention. But the company has surrendered repeatedly in 2016 claim Every car contained the devices required to fully drive itself with the heart of the key – the unpleasant promise was a pivotal to evaluate Tesla for years. (Tesla has since then delete Blog post from its website.)
Tesla made this claim in October 2016, several months after the separation of roads with Mobileye, which provided the original computer for its Autopilot Driver. Tesla was released on its initial devices at home-the devices that were referring to in the 2016 Declaration-“hardware 2.0”. A year later, I began to integrate the “Hardware 2.5” computer.
Nevertheless, none of these computers were on the level of the task, as evidenced by the fact that when Tesla started charging cars using the “Hardware 3” computer in 2019, owners who enjoyed older promotion devices to this new computer had to have a new computer In order to purchase the full subject to supervision, self -driving programs. Tesla was initially imposed on this upgrade, but one owner took one The company to the court of small claims And she obtained a judge to judge that Tesla’s promise for 2016 was a “false declaration”, and that the promotions should be free.
Tesla has since moved to the construction of cars using “Hardware 4” computers, which contained some The owners are wondering What this means for the equipped 3 cars. Musk and other Tesla executives said they believe they are able to develop programs that enable Hardware 3 to drive themselves without supervision, and one of this claim was repeated on Wednesday. But musk continued by saying that he surrendered.
His acceptance on Wednesday confirms only that Tesla and Misk were wrong when they made this famous advertisement in 2016.
Musk was not unambiguous and challenging at that time, as well, as the media was “killing people” by writing “negative” articles about incidents involving the Tesla, Autopilot driver. “You effectively discourage people from using an independent vehicle.”
This is not the case today, as Waymo runs a commercial robotics service in multiple cities.
Musk said on Wednesday that Tesla intends to prove that she can do the same with a pilot program that she hopes to launch in Austin next June. Then he wants to charge the update of a car program that contains the latest “Hardware 4” computers that will allow them to drive themselves. For these reasons, he claimed that the year 2025 would be “perhaps the most important year in the history of Tesla.”
