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Tesla releases Autopilot update with new speed adjustments, stop sign warnings, and more

https://ww.electrek.co/2019/12/06/tesla-update-autopilot-adjust-speed-stop-sign-warning/

n a new update (2019.40.2) this week, Tesla is pushing several new Autopilot features and improvements, including a new way to adjust speed on Autopilot based on the speed of an adjacent lane.

When your vehicle is moving at a significantly faster speed than vehicles in neighboring lanes, Autopilot now automatically reduces your driving speed. This is helpful in heavy traffic situations or when there is a long line of vehicles merging into a different lane or exiting onto an off-ramp. When your vehicle detects that adjacent lane traffic is significantly slower, the lane is highlighted with arrows and its vehicles are highlighted gray in the driving visualization. This speed adjustment can be temporarily overridden by pressing the accelerator pedal.

The new update also includes “Automatic lane change improvements”:

Automatic lane changes have been tuned to make lane changes with more confidence. When the adjacent lane is detected to be open, automatic lane changes will initiate faster and be more assertive.

Finally, Tesla is also introducing “Autosteer stop sign warning”:

Your car may warn you in some cases if it detects that you are about to run a stop sign, in addition to stop lights, while Autosteer is in use. This is not a substitute for an attentive driver and will not stop the car.
Would be good to get a reliable speed sign detection. Until that’s reliable I’m not so sure about trusting stop sign detection.
 
I’ve just discovered faster updates in my model s.
In the software section, I’ve always had ‘advanced’ activated as that is supposedly faster.
Anyway last few downloads on my car have stalled and required tesla to re-push them.
So I thought I’d check just now if any were sitting there stalled, and to my surprise it said “checking for updates”, and about 1 minute later it started installing a new update.
It seems that simply going to the software screen forces any update through.
 
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I took another long drive yesterday with 40.2 and I have to say the improvements in autopilot confidence (since 32.12) are striking. However, I tend to drive fairly aggressively myself and I can't help but think it is trending more towards my style of driving. Of course I love that but I'm not sure others will agree. I'm really looking forward to them unlocking more features for us in AU. Hopefully eventually it will also be more configurable in driving style to suit everyone's tastes.
 
I’ve just discovered faster updates in my model s.
In the software section, I’ve always had ‘advanced’ activated as that is supposedly faster.
Anyway last few downloads on my car have stalled and required tesla to re-push them.
So I thought I’d check just now if any were sitting there stalled, and to my surprise it said “checking for updates”, and about 1 minute later it started installing a new update.
It seems that simply going to the software screen forces any update through.

LOL ... let's not spread more false rumours similar to the "Tap advanced 5 times" BS ... it doesn't "force" the update, just by opening the software tab it now always just checks to see if there's an update available, obviously, if there's no update available it'll just say after checking "software up-to-date".
 
LOL ... let's not spread more false rumours similar to the "Tap advanced 5 times" BS ... it doesn't "force" the update, just by opening the software tab it now always just checks to see if there's an update available, obviously, if there's no update available it'll just say after checking "software up-to-date".
On the contrary, it does speed up the update. My other identical model s which is set for ‘advanced’ is still waiting. I can force it sooner by going to the updates page and letting it search.
 
It did mention bug fixes in the release notes, but I haven’t noticed anything in that regard.

The automated lane changes are much more confident.

It may be some time before I need the wiper function again so we’ll wait and see there.