Autonomous Vehicle News
After years selling its controversial Full-Self Driving software upgrade for thousands of dollars, Tesla today issued a recall for every one of the nearly 363,000 vehicles using the feature. Drivers will be able to continue to use the feature as Tesla builds a software patch for the defects. Humans do not work that way, says Philip Koopman, who studies self-driving car safety as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. The car is designed to buzz and beep when it determines that the human driver needs to take over. The probe looked into why vehicles using Tesla’s Autopilot feature have a history of colliding with stationary first responder vehicles.