[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Tesla’s “Navigate on Autopilot” feature has finally received a wide release.
Chief Executive Elon Musk announced Friday the wide rollout to vehicles equipped with the V9 software. Tesla also released a blog post and a demo video of Navigate on Autopilot.
Navigate on Autopilot is an active guidance feature for Enhanced Autopilot that, with driver supervision, guides a car from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting and making lane changes, navigating highway interchanges, and taking exits. It’s designed to make finding and following the most efficient path to your destination even easier on the highway when Autopilot is in use.
“While drivers should always be attentive when using Autopilot, stalk confirmation for lane changes allows us to ensure that drivers are paying attention at the exact moment they need to, and combined with the redundancy of eight external cameras, radar and ultrasonic sensors, it provides an additional layer of safety that two eyes alone would not have,” Tesla’s blog post said.
Navigate on Autopilot can be customized to a driver’s preferences, including four settings for speed-based lane changes (Disabled, Mild, Average, or Mad Max). When enabled, Navigate on Autopilot’s speed-based lane changes will suggest transitions into adjacent lanes that are moving faster, in the event that your vehicle is traveling slower than the set cruise speed (for instance, if you approach a slow-moving car or truck ahead). The Mild setting suggests lane changes when you’re traveling significantly slower than your set speed, whereas Mad Max will suggest lane changes when traveling just below your set speed.
Check out the demo video below.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/292246943?player_id=292246943″ video_title=”1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]