Tesla's New Self-Driving Chips Reportedly Short-Circuiting in Brand New Cars

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Tesla's New Self-Driving Chips Reportedly Short-Circuiting in Brand New Cars
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Tesla is facing mounting complaints about its latest self-driving hardware (HW4) causing widespread failures in brand new vehicles. Issues range from disabling Autopilot and Full Self-Driving to affecting essential features like cameras, GPS, navigation, and active safety systems. The problem appears to stem from short-circuiting in the HW4 chips, possibly due to battery issues. Tesla is reportedly downplaying the severity of the issue to avoid public panic.

It seems that Tesla 's self-driving efforts have hit another snag, because the computers built into its cars that run its

When the computers malfunction, it disables not only the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving modes, but more commonly used features like the vehicle's extensive suite of cameras, its GPS, navigation features, and active safety features, the site found.investigation, the issue is related to the newest version of Tesla's onboard self-driving chips, dubbed HW4, which are reportedly "short-circuiting.

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