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Inside a model X on a highway. (Credit: Getty)
This is the scenario on which autopilot skeptics warned. Today, several Tesla model 3 and S model pilots reported that the autopilot was disabled while driving with the semi-autonomous feature enabled.
Tesla owner Seth Low said on Twitter that the autopilot had stopped operating for no obvious reason that morning, forcing him to take control of the vehicle without warning.
His experience was not unique: several owners of Model 3 and Model S also described the same autopilot failure on Reddit. And no, neither the restart of the car nor the reboot of the system has handed the feature online.
The bug appears to affect vehicles equipped with Tesla Autopilot firmware 2018.42.2, 42.3 and 42.4. The customer support of this electric vehicle manufacturer has confirmed that it was "a known software bug" responsible for disabling the feature, according to Low. However, Tesla told him that the patch could be remotely performed by the server. The autopilot returned to work after stopping overfeeding.
Earlier this month, Seeing Machines, an Australian manufacturer of vehicle monitoring systems, reported on a study that found that drivers were slower to respond to emergency situations when the autopilot was activated. His study revealed that the Teslas pilots had an average reaction time of 1.5 seconds, but that the time had more than doubled to 3.5 seconds with the autopilot.
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Inside a model X on a highway. (Credit: Getty)
This is the scenario on which autopilot skeptics warned. Today, several Tesla model 3 and S model pilots reported that the autopilot was disabled while driving with the semi-autonomous feature enabled.
Tesla owner Seth Low said on Twitter that the autopilot had stopped operating for no obvious reason that morning, obliging him to take control of the vehicle with a minimum warning.
His experience was not unique: several owners of Model 3 and Model S also described the same autopilot failure on Reddit. And no, neither the restart of the car nor the reboot of the system has handed the feature online.
The bug appears to affect vehicles equipped with Tesla Autopilot firmware 2018.42.2, 42.3 and 42.4. The customer support of this electric vehicle manufacturer has confirmed that it was "a known software bug" responsible for disabling the feature, according to Low. However, Tesla told him that the patch could be remotely performed by the server. The autopilot returned to work after stopping overfeeding.
Earlier this month, Seeing Machines, an Australian manufacturer of vehicle monitoring systems, reported on a study that found that drivers were slower to respond to emergency situations when the autopilot was activated. His study revealed that the Teslas pilots had an average reaction time of 1.5 seconds, but that the time had more than doubled to 3.5 seconds with the autopilot.
