{"id":142602,"date":"2015-10-16T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=142602"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T10:28:41","slug":"tesla-model-s-gets-autopilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/142602-tesla-model-s-gets-autopilot.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model S gets Autopilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Model S cars have received a software upgrade which includes Autopilot &#8211; allowing for hands-free and pedal-free driving on the highway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/16\/automobiles\/tesla-adds-high-speed-autonomous-driving-to-its-bag-of-tricks.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The New York Times reported that<\/strong><\/a> the upgrade means cars may soon \u201cdrive us, rather than the other way around\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Autopilot upgrade allows the car to change lanes autonomously at the driver\u2019s request, and uses sensors to scan the road in all directions and adjust the throttle, steering, and brakes.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated this\u00a0is the first time a production vehicle available to consumers will have such advanced self-driving capabilities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Tesla<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/141088-elon-musk-teases-tesla-model-y.html\">Elon Musk teases Tesla Model Y<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/140360-new-tesla-model-x-suv-photos-details.html\"><strong>New Tesla Model X SUV \u2013 photos, details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/140108-tesla-autopilot-mode-to-launch-soon.html\"><strong>Tesla autopilot mode to launch soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s Model S cars have received Autopilot, which allows hands-free, pedal-free driving on the highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":80801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[36,33408,20719,33134],"class_list":["post-142602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-active","tag-autopilot","tag-tesla","tag-tesla-model-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142728,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142602\/revisions\/142728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}