Early Tesla Model S gets ‘Autopilot’ retrofit and it works surprisingly well

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 8, 2019 George Hotz of comma.ai sees his open-sourced driver-assist system openpilot as the Android of the full self-driving market. While Tesla’s Autopilot system is much like Apple’s iOS in the way that it is confined to the electric car maker’s parameters, openpilot allows owners to dig deeper into …

Tesla Sentry Mode captures most senseless attack against Model 3 to date

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 3, 2019 Since Tesla rolled out Sentry Mode, the built-in security feature has captured its own fair share of shocking incidents, from deliberate keying attacks to random acts of vandalism. Yet, even among the alarmingly large number of videos depicting such incidents, one recent Sentry Mode footage from a …

Tesla Model Y bashed by auto veteran: ‘It’s terminally ugly. I don’t know who’s gonna buy that’

By Simon Alvarez Posted on October 27, 2019 The Tesla Model Y is expected to be the company’s highest-volume vehicle yet, with Elon Musk noting during the recently-held third-quarter earnings call that he expects the crossover to outsell Model S, Model X, and Model 3 combined. Former GM vice chair Bob Lutz, on the other …