Tesla switched to electromechanical brakes with the introduction of it's Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (“autopilot”) system. https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/you

Tesla switched to electromechanical brakes with the introduction of it's Traffic-Aware Cruise Control (“autopilot”) system. https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/your-autopilot-has-arrived https://www.teslamotors.com/blog/your-autopilot-has-arrived says “In October of last year we started equipping Model S with hardware to allow for the incremental introduction of self-driving technology: […] and a high-precision digitally-controlled electric assist braking system.” On the one hand, this makes it sound like a technical limitation with hydraulic brakes. On the other hand, learning the response of your particular car's brakes seems similar to a number of tasks that the car automation has to do anyway. It's a different program and running on different processors, but ABS is an existence proof of this and works fine with a variety of braking systems. I'd be interested in hearing from someone who knows more about automative systems and automation.