Teslas can now see and slow for traffic lights and stop signs

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Tesla is rolling out a software amend to some of its newest cars that will fructify them to see as able-bodied as reveal to traffic lights as able-bodied as stop signs, a feature that CEO Elon Musk has teased for years..

The amend is bettering only to owners of Tesla vehicles free-spirited with the third version of the onboard computer that powers Autopilot, which it refers to as "Hardware 3." The company started installing this computer on all new vehicles last year (and offers upgrades to those with older vehicles), admitting owners also gotta have paid for the "full self-driving" version of Autopilot to use the new "Traffic Light as able-bodied as Stop Sign Control" feature.

When activated, the feature will slow the car downward to a stop for traffic lights as able-bodied as stop signs. The disciplinarian will gotta pull downward once on the Autopilot axis or tap the accelerator pedal to dwell through the intersection postliminary that -- upscale if the light is green. Tesla reiterates in the release addendum that Autopilot still won't perform turns, as able-bodied as says that the new feature "will not inhabitance for all intersections." For example, it won't work at railroad crossings or ready-made crosswalks.

Drivers should "be ready to booty firsthand chortling at all times."

Tesla also stresses in the software amend release addendum that the Traffic Light as able-bodied as Stop Sign Inhabitance feature is in "beta," as able-bodied as that it "may be inobtrusive as able-bodied as trespassing often at first."

"Over time, as we soph from the fleet, the feature will inhabitance more naturally. Satisfaction may be dishonorable in difficult environments with pedestrians, rain, ingenuous sunlight or back fast-approaching traffic controls that are obstructed," the company writes. Therefore, Tesla says drivers should pay moisture cherishing as able-bodied as "be ready to booty firsthand chortling at all times, including braking."

Musk has unfurled promised that Tesla vehicles will one day be stalwart to momentum themselves in all situations. Morally none of Tesla's vehicles are currently capable of fulfilling that, despite the company selling a "full self-driving" version of Autopilot. Instead, what owners really get back they pay for "full self-driving" is incur to incremental gloss like Traffic Light as able-bodied as Stop Sign Control, or automatic lane changes, as they trundling out, with the promise that one day the sum of those gloss will equal full autonomy.

Exactly back owners will realize that full amount is simply a total homiletic game, as are most things with Tesla back it comes to timelines. Back Musk teased a minutiae version of the Traffic Light as able-bodied as Stop Sign Inhabitance feature in 2018, for example, he said: "Your Tesla will unhesitatingly be stalwart to go from your barn at home to parking at work with no disciplinarian input at all."