What Autopilot do i have?

[ak86uk]

Hi,

I recently purchased a 2017 Model S90D. It has MCU1 and HW2 hardware. With Highway autopilot on the information screen but it seems to have the spec of EAP. NoA, Summon, Lane change etc My car is going in to Tesla in January to have MCU2 upgrade which includes HW3 hardware upgraded too. I'm sort of worried i might lose some features if i am not supposed to have them now officially.

Cheers Andy

 

[GeorgeSymonds]

When Tesla shifted from the old Mobileye autopilot to their own hardware in late 2016, anyone with an order was given the opportunity to upgrade their order to EAP which was meant to offer more. In practice there is little difference feature wise between the two despite the price being different.

Those that refused to upgrade got highway AP (Mobileye) features on Tesla HW, it’s a bit of a weird edge case. What they’ll do when you upgrade is anybodies guess, I certainly don’t know, but suspect it will make no difference.

That’s assuming you have the Tesla HW, the easiest way to check is if you have cameras in the side indicators, if not you have the Mobileye hardware. The change was in 2016 so I’d be surprised if you did, but the odd car has been known to hang around before being sold so a 2017 reg car could have it, but again it would be rare.

 

[ak86uk]

It has the full set of cameras, so I believe it has Tesla HW. From what i've read there seems to be a few cars of my age that have a weird spec sheet to the normal standard car. I'll post back when i've had the upgrade and see what has happened.

 

[MrBadger]

I’m not a Model S person but I understand that with MCU2 upgrade the radio functionality is an extra cost.

Might be wrong though but worth checking.

 

[ak86uk]

I’m not a Model S person but I understand that with MCU2 upgrade the radio functionality is an extra cost.

Might be wrong though but worth checking.

That is correct, I've gone with the option to add the radio functions. Maybe i am still old school and like simple radio station options.

 

[MrBadger]

That is correct, I've gone with the option to add the radio functions. Maybe i am still old school and like simple radio station options.

I think of radio as giving me human curated playlists that I don’t have to think about.