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New Tesla Cars Drive Themselves into the Future
By AARON HILL
For years people have fantasized about inventions of the future, such as starships, teleportation, and flying cars. On October 14th an invention that many people have been wanting for decades arrived. Tesla Motors released a software update, Tesla Version 7.0, which allows all of their cars released since 2014, as the update requires certain radar and camera systems, to be self-driving. In short, now self-driving cars are available to the general public for purchase.
For the uniformed, Tesla is an automobile company led by billionaire inventor Elon Musk. Musk is the cofounder of Tesla Motors and PayPal, founder of SpaceX, and has had a hand in several other large companies such as Solar City. Tesla Motors is a world leader and innovator of electric cars, selling the world’s first electric vehicle with a range of over 200 miles, the Tesla Roadster. Today, they offer only two models, the Model S and the Model X, both being high-priced electric luxury cars . . .
For years people have fantasized about inventions of the future, such as starships, teleportation, and flying cars. On October 14th an invention that many people have been wanting for decades arrived. Tesla Motors released a software update, Tesla Version 7.0, which allows all of their cars released since 2014, as the update requires certain radar and camera systems, to be self-driving. In short, now self-driving cars are available to the general public for purchase.
For the uniformed, Tesla is an automobile company led by billionaire inventor Elon Musk. Musk is the cofounder of Tesla Motors and PayPal, founder of SpaceX, and has had a hand in several other large companies such as Solar City. Tesla Motors is a world leader and innovator of electric cars, selling the world’s first electric vehicle with a range of over 200 miles, the Tesla Roadster. Today, they offer only two models, the Model S and the Model X, both being high-priced electric luxury cars . . .