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Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on Weibo on Oct. 26 that there is no discount on the car sold to Hertz, which is the same as the price its consumers buy. Tao Lin, vice president of foreign affairs of Tesla, forwarded the Weibo on the morning of October 27, saying that employees buy cars at the same price as customers, but they can activate the FSD function for free. Welcome to join Tesla.

Yesterday, Hertz car Rental announced that it had ordered 100000 electric cars from Tesla and planned to rent them in major US markets and parts of Europe from November. It is understood that the order value of the electric car is 4.2 billion US dollars.

According to Tesla's official website, Tesla China offers two paid autopilot packages, enhanced autopilot and full autopilot, which are priced at 32000 and 64000 respectively, while the basic version of Autopilot (BAP) is free for all models. Among them, the enhanced autopilot functions include: automatic navigation driving, automatic lane change, intelligent summoning, automatic parking and other functions. fully autopilot capabilities include: active cruise control, auxiliary steering, automatic lane change, automatic navigation driving, automatic parking, intelligent summoning, identification and response of traffic lights and stop signs, and auxiliary driving in urban streets.

The vehicle has the function of "autopilot", which can bring a lot of convenience in daily driving, and can reduce the driving burden of the driver to a certain extent. However, from the current point of view, the safety and reliability of "autopilot" is not very high, for some complex road conditions, the computer is not as timely as the human brain. Although the current technology research and development has reached a certain height, there are still many years to go before computers replace the human brain, and it is obviously unrealistic to realize "fully autonomous driving" in a few years. Tesla is also under investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration because of his autopilot function. On Aug. 16, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would launch a formal investigation into Tesla's 11 previous traffic accidents caused by the use of autopilot assistance systems.

It is worth noting that electric carmaker Tesla officially launched the "fully self-driving" software test version FSD Beta 10.3 on October 24th. However, Tesla Musk announced the temporary withdrawal of the upgraded version after test drivers complained that the system issued a false crash alarm and other errors. "Tesla found some problems in FSD Beta 10.3, so he temporarily returned to version 10.2," Musk said on Twitter. Please note that this is to be expected in beta software. After all, we can't test all the hardware configurations under all conditions, so we need to test publicly. " Foreign media The Verge said that there may be two problems with FSD Beta 10.3. It is possible that this version of the software will issue a collision warning before the error. Secondly, the automatic steering option is cancelled, and some problems may occur after the traffic perceptual cruise control system is updated. In addition, it also said that Tesla's FSD system can not make the vehicle fully self-driving, the system still needs manual supervision, can not be called a fully self-driving car.

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