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Tesla's Full Self Driving is improving rapidly since the company moved to Version 12 of their software which is a significant shift in architecture. At a high level, the car's computer can take video in from the cameras, understand the environment, plot a safe path through it and output the controls to make it happen. As each point release rolls out (currently 12.3.5), the system...

Tesla's Cybertruck has been on somewhat of a global tour recently despite only being delivered to customers in North America. When Cybertruck was announced back in November 2019, the Cybertruck was available to reserve in Australia and even today still has an AU page on Tesla's website, strongly suggesting the company will offer it here. Last night, the Tesla Australia New Zealand Instagram account...

Coming to Australian roads in July, the new Tesla Model 3 Performance was officially announced yesterday and is now available to order. The new car features many new upgrades over the first Model 3 Performance offered in Australia in late 2019. The Model 3 Performance, All-Wheel Drive features a 528km range (WLPT), a top speed of 262 km/h and faster 0-100 km/h time of...

Over the weekend, the official Tesla account published information about the upcoming Spring Release software update. While we're still waiting for that to reach customer cars, we've now got our first look at the new update running on a vehicle. X user @The_Alfather has shared a photo of the latest 2024.14 build that shows for the first time, a full-screen visualisation of Autopilot. For...

I recently had the chance to spend a week with the 2024 Tesla Model 3 Highland Refresh and now it's time to detail my thoughts in a full review. The first major update to the Model 3 since its inception more than 5 years ago is a big one, while the car shares the same nameplate, the car features changes to almost every part of...

Tesla has made a major change to their Full Self-Driving price overnight. The monthly cost for their software upgrade in the US and Canada has been slashed to US$99 and CAD$99 respectively, a significant change that has the potential to shake up the way we think about autonomous driving technology. Recently Tesla offered a 1-month free trial to Tesla owners in the US and Canada,...

Elon Musk has just announced on X that Tesla will hold a Robotaxi unveil event on August 8th, 2024. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1776351450542768368 For Tesla's robotaxi (no steering wheel and pedals) to be unveiled and ultimately head to production, the company needs to have the software locked away. We have seen good progress with Version 12 of FSD, but there are still items that need to be addressed...

Right now, version 12.3 of Tesla's Full Self Driving software is rolling out across millions of vehicles from North America to Canada, showing that Tesla has confidence the technology is ready for prime time. In the last week, the company announced that all compatible cars in NA would receive a 1 month free trial of the software. This has never been done before. Over...