Elon Musk just announced that soon, your Tesla will take you to your destination and park automatically, unless you ask it otherwise.
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Tesla Autopark improvements and your Tesla parking for you after dropping you off
Dana Chandler is an FSD supervised driver, and she took her Tesla into a garage to have it auto park. She took her car into a garage and there were plenty of spaces on the visualization for her to choose from.
She pressed a P on one of the parking spaces on the visualization at an angle, and the car began to back up into the parking space. It began backing in at a pretty good pace, doing it at an angle and simply getting in the parking space and then putting itself in park.
It was very accurate when Dana got out of her car to see how the car parked, getting even between the lane lines of the parking spot. It was even on both sides and the parking spot was not a normal parking spot with one side having a straight line and the other a diagonal line.
Elon Musk responded to her video saying that this was pure vision auto park and that coming soon, your Tesla will be able to take you to your destination and park automatically, unless you ask it otherwise.
It's important to note that auto park is part of Tesla's FSD package, which can be purchased for $99 a month (and ends up being about $108 here in Utah due to tax), or $8,000 upfront, which becomes about $8,500 here in Utah after sales tax. Man, you gotta love taxes...
Tesla's FSD comes with more than just auto park. It will drive you everywhere while you supervise and also comes with summon and smart summon and what Elon Musk was referring to, I believe, is called a banish feature, which will allow you to ride in your Tesla to the front of a building while your car goes and finds a parking space to park.
In an packed parking lot, it will be interesting how the car figures out where to park...
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Tesla FSD Keeps Getting Better - Fast
Tesla's FSD is getting better and very quickly, with a minor update coming about every 8 to 10 days right now.
For someone who has never seen the car drive itself, it is quite a shock to them. I recently took a friend to ride in my car to show off FSD, and she was quite shocked by how well the car drove. She was nervous at first, but became at ease as the car proved itself again and again.
Banish, auto park, and summon are going to be important features in a Tesla vehicle. The car is going to have to learn to park, drop people off, and be dismissed by its owner after using it.
An owner may want to simply take his car somewhere and then dismiss it to become a robotaxi until whatever that person is doing and then take it off the robotaxi network briefly to get a ride home, and then put it back on the network again.
I believe Tesla will make this as easy as the push of a button.
All of this is made possible by the immense amount of AI spending Tesla is doing on compute and training data. Elon Musk has said that Tesla will spend about $10 billion this year, and that any company that is serious about AI will need to spend billions of dollars to remain competitive.
I am not aware of any company with as many vehicles as Tesla, spending as much money as Tesla is with the camera setup and software that Tesla has.
Tesla is years ahead of any competition, and it will be interesting to see how much longer it takes for others to catch up and have their own full self-driving, or if they will simply license Tesla's technology.
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What do you think of the auto park feature? Is it getting better?
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