The company is also currently facing a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in California for deceptive marketing about Autopilot's capabilities.

Here's what's happening: If you buy a new Tesla car in the U.S., you will no longer receive the Basic Autopilot set of features, which was previously included with every Tesla. Instead, you're getting Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, which is a feature that maintains set driving speed and slows down when there's a slower vehicle in front of you.

Tesla removes Autopilot from new cars, pushing FSD subscriptions. Here's how the change affects drivers, costs, safety, and Tesla's self-driving future.

Jan 23 (Reuters) - Tesla on Thursday discontinued its basic driver-assistance system, Autopilot, in Canada and the U.S., in an attempt to push customers toward a more advanced version of the technology branded as Full Self-Driving (Supervised).

There’s another wrinkle in things. Even though General Motors and Ford charge a subscription fee for their hands-free driving assists— SuperCruise and BlueCruise, respectively—it comes with a three-year trial period. Tesla will charge $99 per month after 30 days.

Tesla has officially discontinued Autopilot in the US and Canada, leaving all new owners with no free driver assistance system besides adaptive cruise control

Silicon Valley stopped finding that stuff sexy years ago, and no other electric vehicle startup has been able to generate a value within an order of magnitude of the amount that Tesla has been determined to be worth by investors.

Tesla is ending Autopilot and steering customers toward higher-priced FSD subscriptions, signalling a major shift in its driver-assistance strategy. The post Tesla kills Autopilot for good and Musk warns of FSD price hikes appeared first on Digital Trends.

Tesla EVs have a new Autopilot computer and sensor suite dubbed HW4.5, making it even less likely that the HW3 vehicles will be supported for FSD Unsupervised