For almost nine years, Elon Musk has promised that Tesla vehicles had the material needed to support a self-guiding car. This week he made his last assumption that many are not.
Musk told a teleconference on Wednesday night that Tesla cars equipped with so-called 3 will need upgrade before they can support the self-guidance software that the automotive industry is still growing. These material 3 vehicles, sold between 2019 and 2023, are equipped with the earlier version of the computer authorized by the Company’s “Full Driving” Guide.
“I think the honest answer is that we need to upgrade the Hardware 3 computer for those who have bought full self-guidance,” he said. “This will be painful and difficult. But we will.”
This is not surprising to anyone who followed the company’s progress.
In general, Musk has repeatedly been caused by Tesla’s timetable for the sale of a vehicle that can drive autonomously without human intervention. But the company now has repeatedly depressing for its 2016 claim That every car built had the material required for one day to fully drive with the flip of a switch – an unfulfilled promise that has been central to Tesla valuation for years. (Tesla has since deleted This blog post from its website.)
Tesla made this requirement in October 2016, several months after separately with Mobileye, which provided the original computer for the automatic pilot driver’s help software. Tesla was named his original material-the material mentioned in the 2016- “Hardware 2.0” announcement. A year later he began incorporating a “hardware 2.5” computer.
None of these computers were ready for the project, but it is evidenced by the fact that when Tesla started sending cars with a “hardware 3” computer in 2019, owners with older material had to upgrade to this new computer to buy Supervised complete self-guiding software. Tesla was originally charged for this upgrade but a owner got The company in court of minor claims And he took a judge to decide that Tesla’s 2016 promise was “false advertising”, and that upgrades should be free.
Since then, Tesla has moved to building “Hardware 4” cars, which had some The owners are wondering What it meant about cars with 3 equipped materials. Musk and other Tesla executives said they believed they could develop software that would allow the material 3 cars to drive themselves without supervision and someone repeated this allegation on Wednesday. But Musk followed, saying he had resigned.
His acceptance on Wednesday only stresses that Tesla and Musk were wrong when they made this famous declaration in 2016.
The Musk was undoubtedly and provocative at that time, also going until saying that the media “kill people” by writing “negative” articles on the Tesla driver’s driver help system, an automatic pilot. “Effectively discourage people from using an autonomous vehicle,” he said at a 2016 teleconference, a time when there was no fully autonomous vehicles.
This is not the case today, as Waymo exploits a Robotaxi trade service in many cities.
Musk said Wednesday that Tesla intends to prove that he can do the same with a pilot program that hopes to start at Austin next June. Then he wants to send a software update to cars with newer “4” material computers that will allow them to drive themselves. For these reasons, he claimed that 2025 would be “perhaps the most important year in Tesla’s history”.
