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> Tesla made one major innovation You haven't ridden in a Tesla doing its self-driving thing, have you? I didn't care about Tesla until I rode in one doing th
by carlivar 11y ago
> Tesla made one major innovation
You haven't ridden in a Tesla doing its self-driving thing, have you?
I didn't care about Tesla until I rode in one doing this.
- superuser2 11y agoOther cars at similar price points were doing the same things years, sometimes a decade ago. Tesla's innovation was marketing them to techies on the Google self driving hype train rather than as safety features for the country club set.
- carlivar 11y agoWhich ones? I don't mean just staying in your lane. The car I was in stopped at a red light (technically just following the car in front of it, which also stopped). Though I haven't researched the history of this feature.
- superuser2 11y agoFollowing distance aware cruise control came on the scene in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_cruise_control_syst... Collision avoidance systems similarly have a long history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_avoidance_system As I understand it, Tesla Autopilot is a collection of these ordinary luxury car features (lane keeping, adaptive cruise control, environment sensing/prediction and collision avoidance, integrated navigation) that with branding that recognizes them for what they are: the foundation of self-driving technology.
- oblio 11y agoAt least the Volvo V40 has that. And it's not a luxury car :)
- dysfunction 11y ago> Volvo > not a luxury car
- oblio 11y ago> Volvo > not a luxury car in Europe
- guelo 11y agoThe auto pilot tech is from some Israeli company and has been bought by several other car companies.