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Tesla's big spring update brings new Self-Driving app and 'Hey Grok' voice command

Tesla is about to launch another major software update for its vehicles. On Monday, the company's official X account posted an overview of what's coming. Among the new features are a new Self-Driving app that makes it easy to subscribe to the company's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) package with a single tap. FSD has recently been made unavailable as a single purchase, and is now only available as a $99.99/month subscription. The new app has a myriad of options on how the car should behave on FSD, including speed profiles, behavior on destination, automatic parking options and more. It also has detailed self-driving stats, showing, for example, how many miles the car passed on FSD. Another major update is the ability to invoke xAI's smart companion Grok by saying "Hey Grok." The option can be enabled in Grok -> Settings, and Grok can be dismissed by saying "goodbye." Other features include new car visualization for new Model 3 and Y, more detailed trip stats, a new character (Cyberhog) to display when Pet Mode is active, stickers and emojis in Sketchpad, and custom wraps and license plates for Tesla avatars (only for Model S and X owners). Also new is the ability to automatically i

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The Hardware in Your Pre-2023 Tesla Will Never Allow It to Fully Drive Itself, Elon Musk Admits

If you bought a Tesla from before 2023 in the hopes that a future software upgrade would render it capable of unsupervised full self-driving—the as-yet unrealized dream of a truly self driving car, in other words—that’s never going to…

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The Hardware in Your Pre-2023 Tesla Will Never Allow It to Fully Drive Itself, Elon Musk Admits

If you bought a Tesla from before 2023 in the hopes that a future software upgrade would render it capable of unsupervised full self-driving—the as-yet unrealized dream of a truly self driving car, in other words—that’s…

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Tesla's big spring update brings new Self-Driving app and 'Hey Grok' voice command

Tesla is about to launch another major software update for its vehicles. On Monday, the company's official X account posted an overview of what's coming. Among the new features are a new Self-Driving app that makes it…

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