Silicon Valley-based automaker Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) has updated its website yesterday with a subtle change that Tesla enthusiasts noticed. Now the anima

Tesla replaces forward radar with vision-based Autopilot/FSD on its website

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2021-05-25 21:30:07

Silicon Valley-based automaker Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) has updated its website yesterday with a subtle change that Tesla enthusiasts noticed. Now the animated representation and specifications of the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) show the vision-based capabilities of the system and the mention of the forward-facing radar has been removed.

Almost a month ago, CEO Elon Musk said that with the release of FSD Beta V9.0 software, Tesla is moving towards a pure vision-based system and getting rid of the radar. He even said that the radar hardware will completely be removed from the next production cars.

With this important update to the website, it seems that the radar and related hardware has already been removed from the cars currently in production at Tesla Fremont and Giga Shanghai.

Tesla’s website for Model S, 3, X, and Y’s Autopilot section now mentions “250 meters of powerful vision processing” instead of the previous “160 meters forward-facing radar”.