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Navigating on autopilot: automatic steering from the access ramp to the highway exit ramp, including knots and overtaking slower cars.
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Automatic lane change: Automatic lane changes while driving on the highway.
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Autopark: parallel and perpendicular spaces.
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Summon: your parked car will find you anywhere in a parking lot. Same.
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Traffic light control and stop signaling: assisted stops at traffic-controlled intersections.
Although Musk recently said that the subscription package will be available early next year, adding the technology has always had varying prices in recent months. Now, as Tesla strives to meet record delivery targets by the end of the year, this becomes an incentive.
However, not everyone is happy with the offer, especially because of how Tesla announces its autopilot “advanced safety and convenience feature” and “fully autonomous driving” technology. As Tesla’s website notes in slightly smaller letters, “The features currently activated require active driver supervision and do not make the vehicle autonomous.”
NTSB member Jennifer Homendy noticed the difference in a tweet topic, saying “’Full self-steering’ suggests that the vehicle can now drive itself without the intervention of a human operator. This is not true. There must be safeguards in place to avoid such misleading claims. “