Tesla launched a software program improve for its in-car navigation system in China on Friday, introducing new options equivalent to displaying lane markings on its maps that correspond to the precise lanes on the street.
The corporate introduced the replace on its official WeChat account together with a collection of recent options added within the newest over-the-air improve that it claimed would cut back customers’ reliance on smartphone functions whereas driving.
Tesla didn’t specify the supplier of the lane-related mapping service whereas the official Shanghai Securities Information reported on Friday that Baidu is the map provider.
Baidu, first introduced the discharge of its V20 Baidu Maps in April, naming Tesla and Huawei among the many purchasers of the map. Baidu has been Tesla’s navigation map supplier since 2020.
The Baidu Maps V20 introduces lane-level navigation, which the corporate stated can present human drivers with detailed street info and lane suggestions to boost driving security and expertise.
Chinese language customers in China have complained about Tesla’s in-car navigation map on social media, saying it isn’t as detailed as maps out there on smartphones. Tesla in China was not instantly out there to remark.
Tesla, which solely makes use of cameras as sensors for its autonomous driving expertise, is at the moment within the means of introducing its ‘Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) software program system in China, which just lately made progress as the corporate prepares to register this technologically superior function with authorities, Reuters reported final month.
Not like high-definition maps that accumulate extra detailed, delicate geographic info to function a further sensor for autonomous driving automobiles, navigation maps have been broadly utilized in China to offer visitors info to human drivers.
