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The current situation of self-driving technology, including after a number of crashes, has raised legal and regulatory questions among quite a few parties.
Two steps forward, one step backward:
Elon Musk has announced several times, but so far those promises could not be fulfilled.-
Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at the agency Guidehouse Insights, pointed out that
Tesla has made a number of changes to the hardware of its younger-generation cars, so that a number of functions of the Full Self-Driving software package temporarily cannot be activated.
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Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at the agency Guidehouse Insights, pointed out that
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Late last year,
Tesla decided to remove ultrasonic sensors from the Model 3 and Model Y types. The company added that a number of features would be temporarily unavailable.- These included Smart Summon, a technology that lets the car automatically drive to a selected location.
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Autopark, an application that allows a
Tesla car to automatically park itself in a regulatory parking space in the public domain, was also temporarily removed from the offering.
Tesla is offering the Full Self Driving software package as an option on the market at a cost of$15,000 .-
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Tesla has with its Full Self-Driving platform," Musk clarified in that regard. -
At the time when self-driving technology is introduced into traffic, he said
Tesla's cars will have a clear added value for the driver.
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Reflected in quarterly figures:
- "These deferred revenues will therefore have to be factored in when the software does become more fully deployable," Kirkhorn stressed.
Tesla posted revenue of$23.3 billion (21.3 billion euros ) year.-
That represented a 36 percent increase over the same period last year. However, net profit fell by 24 percent to
$2.5 billion in the process. -
In doing so,
Elon Musk emphasized once again that the company deliberately prefers selling higher volumes of cars to higher profit margins. Tesla sold 422,875 cars during the first three months of this year. That represented a 36 percent increase from the same period last year.
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That represented a 36 percent increase over the same period last year. However, net profit fell by 24 percent to
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