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I don't believe AutoPilot is network dependent.

• crunchlibrarian 8y ago
  My understanding is that everything in the car is network dependent. You can't run it offline, at least not long term.
  • beamatronic 8y ago
    Do you have a source or citation for that?
  • Shivetya 8y ago
    Not entirely. When they had a recent network outage, site down and such I lost my phone app. It could not talk to the car as it apparently goes to Tesla first. However I was able to unlock, start, and drive just fine. Autopilot, both the traffic aware cruise control and auto steer, worked without issue. now I did not need to use a super charger but one would hope they don't need network access to work and would just keep a local database of cars that are allowed. would be damn silly to require a call to the mothership for each charging session.
    • ReverseCold 8y ago
      > unlock, start, and drive just fine. With the key card?
      • Shivetya 8y ago
        no, just walked up to it with my phone in my pocket
• jonknee 8y ago
  The part where they sold it based on promised future capabilities is.
  • ryanhuff 8y ago
    You mean Full Self Driving?
    • jonknee 8y ago
      That too, but they claim that it will keep getting better: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot https://www.tesla.com/autopilot > Tesla’s Enhanced Autopilot software has begun rolling out and features will continue to be introduced as validation is completed, subject to regulatory approval.