(credit: Mashable)
During a quarterly financial call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed some interesting details about the future of the Model S's Autopilot feature. Most notably, Musk said that "additional constraints" will be added to the activation of Autopilot, to "minimize the possibility of people doing crazy things."
Musk said on the call that around 40,000 Model Ses currently have Autopilot mode available to them. He said those 40,000 cars are logging about a million miles of driving per day—but he didn't clarify if that was the total number of miles driven, or the number of Autopiloted miles driven. In any case, Musk said that the "early data is very positive... we're very aware of many accidents that were prevented by Autopilot, and not aware of any that were caused by Autopilot."
Still, Musk wasn't pleased with "some fairly crazy videos" on YouTube. "This is not good. We will be putting some additional constraints on when Autopilot can be activated to minimise the possibility of people doing crazy things." Musk didn't say when those constraints would arrive, but considering Autopilot is still in beta testing, we'd expect an over-the-air software update sooner rather than later.
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