- The new version nine of Tesla software
is coming in August, so pretty soon here,
and as Elon stated,
with the first full self-driving features.
So if you're unfamiliar, we're currently on version eight.
I think it's eight point two, maybe eight point one.
And this is the model SNX taxonomy.
The Model 3 has its own different one,
but we all think it's generally the same
core technology underlying.
With version nine, this would be the biggest upgrade
in a couple years, and I just wanted to recap like
what it can do today, versus what it might be able to do.
Currently, the car can do Lane Keep,
where as the road turns, and you can see it
on the graphic here, that it actually stays in your lane.
Right, simple enough.
And it will turn for you, depending on how sharp that is.
People have tested it on the clover,
freeway on, and off ramps, and it doesn't do that well.
So, things like that.
Generally just keeps you in your lane
on a normal road on a highway.
It also has what what's known as adaptive cruise control.
Other people call this traffic aware cruise control.
So this will speed up, and slow down based
on the cars in front of you.
That is auto-pilot, essentially,
it'll keep you in your lane; it'll speed up,
and slow down; giving you the sense of
like it's practically driving for you.
It also has a couple of other features
that are included in this.
This is the self-parking,
where it can do a perpendicular park,
or it can do a parallel park.
And that's actually a pretty awesome feature.
Now it isn't, again, without its faults.
I know I've heard stories of people
where there is is pot hole, and it doesn't see it;
dips down, and it hits the curb; those kind of things.
So it's not perfect, but that's also what it can do today.
Then you have Summon where from your phone,
on the Model S, and X, not the 3;
you can actually have it go back, and forth
in between a tight parking space,
which I can tell you, I can't wait
for this to come on the 3, because there's a lot
of times where I've used that.
That's like currently what's possible, right?
That's kind of like the full gamut of it.
Now what it might be able to do,
in version nine is basically what is currently advertised.
If you go over to the website here,
where it has the actual auto-pilot stuff.
You can see that what is currently advertised,
but not actually functional is this idea, the first one of,
actually moving around, and through traffic.
It's the idea that will basically allow you
to find your way, so if you're navigating somewhere,
it will then change lanes, and it will,
if someone is slow in front of you, it'll go around them,
and all those kind of things.
The next one is the on on-ramp to off-ramp
where it'll actually get you on the freeway,
and exit you off the freeway.
So these are features that are advertised
on the website right here, tesla.com/autopilot
but don't actually exist.
This doesn't happen, or it's not not-useful.
Now, the other one is this Autosteer+.
This kind of exists where it handles really tight turns,
and things like that.
I think it's pretty good, but it could be better.
Now the Smart Summon, so the Summon I mentioned
before where you can kind of
have the car come out come out, and meet you.
It's basically only straight.
It's only one direction.
You go in, and you come out, that's it.
Here's a great example where imagine
if you're garage was around the corner at your house,
you could hit a button, and it would go turn,
and then park, and then come back out.
So currently it doesn't do that,
but that would be something that
we can hope to expect to see in this next version.
Now of course there is the full self-driving capability,
and this is like
basically the fully autonomous car,
where you get in your car, you don't even have
to tell it where you're going,
it takes you there if it's in your calendar.
It parks, and all of that kind of stuff.
Personally, I'm interested in this
from a kind of a Batmobile standpoint.
If are of a certain age, you remember
when Michael Keaton was the Batman,
and he had one of the coolest features ever
of his car, where he could be off on a building somewhere;
tells his little device, come pick me up.
And the car would actually find him,
and come directly below him, and he would jump right in,
and those kind of things.
Which might be technically possible in the Roadster.
Maybe we'll have to do a little Batsuit kind
of demonstration someday.
But anyways, those are future things
that I don't think we're gonna expect
to see any of that stuff yet.
So it'll hopefully be able to do everything
that is advertised on auto-pilot.
Or sorry, in the current advertisement
of enhanced auto-pilot.
So, there you have it.