[patman81]

There was another Tesla software update announced as "almost done": a major update to Autopilot 2, with an all new neural net and what not.

This all new navigation system might include functionality to help, not only the human driver, but that new Autopilot as well.

At some point Autopilot and Navigation will have to merge. Right now, both systems operate completely separate.

But if those upcoming updates will allow Autopilot to follow the navigation system changing lanes thru highway intersections, than that would indeed be 'light-years ahead'.

[ardit33]

"Almost Done" . -- Elon Musk suffers from the typical engineer's optimistic feature task/project estimation.

Some people have wrongly attributed his overpromising, and delivering late, as Elon being a salesman, while the more obvious explanation is that he is just an optimistic engineer that tends to miss deadlines because 'estimating is hard'.

We all have been there

My expectation is that when it comes it, it will kick ass, but it will be late, always a bit late, like most of our projects...