This Week in Tesla: Teslas Will Be Able to Drop You Off and Park, Cybertruck Updates

Teslas Will Be Able to Drop You Off and Park -

Tesla’s autopilot system received a big update last summer with the release of Smart Summon, a system that would allow one to summon their car from a parking spot to anywhere else in the parking lot. As of now, it appears that this summer we will receive a similar update, allowing Tesla owners to exit their vehicles at the front of a store and then send the car to go find a parking spot for them. It was revealed via a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk that this feature will be part of the “core autopilot software update for FSD later this year.” Seeing as the amount of good (and bad) press Tesla got when they released the Smart Summon feature, it would be safe to guess that this feature will have to record a lot of real world information from Tesla owners around the world who will be using it, in order to improve the situational awareness of the software.

Cybertruck Updates -

Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously stated that the Cybertruck would be available in a matte black paint option, although now it has been brought into question whether or not Tesla will be painting the cars at all. Seeing as the “exoskeleton” of the Cybertruck is made from a “ultra-hard 30X cold-rolled stainless-steel” there have been questions as to the paintability of the truck. Although the strong exoskeleton provides rigidity, durability, and safety, it is looking doubtful that it will be painted by Tesla. Most of the prototypes seen to date are only sporting the unpainted stainless-steel and it is beginning to look like that is the only color buyers will be offered directly from Tesla. This week, Musk stated that “you will be able to wrap it in any color or pattern” which appears to allude to the fact that owners will have to pay to get their Cybertrucks wrapped by a third party, rather than from Tesla itself.