Elon Musk is at it again, claiming that the series of Tesla self-driving cars can now even drive better than a human, and better than the Google or Mercedes automated cars. According to Tesla, the carmaker is bringing in new features to the cars. Among these are new limits on highway speeds and a way for people to summon their cars.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Is All Talk and All Play
The California-based company only brought in autonomous driving technology onto their cars last year. Even then, not one of their models is fully and completely self-driving cars.
Even so, Elon Musk does great lip work of upstaging his product. He claimed the cars are better at driving than humans right now. He also added that the company is expecting exciting and quick enhancements to their cars over the next year and a half. By then, he claims, Tesla self-driving cars will drive more safely than any human.
The truth is most of their fully autonomous programs are still in beta. They are constantly being updated with data they get from the mileage carried by current semi-autonomous and autonomous car owners. So far, there have been no accidents reported. However, Musk did disclose that there were some near-incidents when drivers thought they were on auto-pilot mode when they weren’t.
Tesla Will Introduce ‘Summon’ Feature
According to Elon Musk, this new feature will allow drivers to call out to their cars from a parking space or a garage. The driver has to be standing near the car for it to work right now, but this is getting steadily upgraded with time. In two years, Elon Musk hopes to be able to summon cars from across the US.
Meanwhile, The Mercedes F015 Drives Itself to CES 2016
The new Mercedes F015 doesn’t need to say much, unlike Elon Musk. The car had a fantastic entrance to the Consumer Electronics Show on January 6, where it drove itself to the very entrance in a super cool, 100% autonomous fashion. The car is sleek, with a look that is signature Mercedes. The S-Class vehicle already has a summoning feature, though drivers must be close to the car to manage it. Needless to say, Mercedes-Benz is more into show, rather than tell.
Google Goes Without Saying
The Google self-driving car has millions of miles on its belt. There are big things coming from them, as their partnership with Ford moves forward. We could be seeing a commercial Google car from this partnership. This will definitely put Google on the carmaker map.
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