---
title: "Tesla’s Updated Autopilot to Launch Next Weekend"
description: "Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that the Autopilot release for HW2 Suite Teslas will go wide next weekend."
date: "2017-06-12"
modified: "2017-06-12"
authors:
  - name: "Karla Lant"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/karla"
url: "https://futurism.com/teslas-updated-hw2-to-launch-next-weekend"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "autopilot"
  - "elon musk"
  - "tesla"
---

# Tesla’s Updated Autopilot to Launch Next Weekend

![tesla autopilot elon musk](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/TESSA-1.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: \<a href="https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/images/videos/tesla_autopilot_2_video.jpg" target="\_blank"\>Tesla\</a\>\</em\>*

This Sunday afternoon, [Elon Musk tweeted](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/873984057431949312>) about the imminent Autopilot release for HW2 Suite Teslas which, as promised, will launch next weekend.

HW2 Autopilot release should go wide next weekend with additional smoothness improvements to longitudinal control

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) [June 11, 2017](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/873984057431949312>)

The update will be deployed only to HW2 Tesla cars (which have been in production since October, 2016), because the first-generation (HW1) cars [lack sufficient computing power](<http://mashable.com/2017/05/22/tesla-smooth-autopilot/>) and sensors to handle it. This update will correct issues with the original control algorithm, which was “[safe, but unpleasant,](<https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/866472504541368321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2017%2F05%2F22%2Ftesla-smooth-autopilot%2F>)” to use Musk's own words. [Rain sensors and perpendicular parking](<https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/teslas-next-autopilot-update-is-all-about-the-smooth-ride/>) may also be part of the update.

![Image Credit: Tesla](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Tesla-autopilot-1200x642.png>)
*Image Credit: Screenshot, Tesla*

Tesla's focus this time around has been on refining the control algorithm, not only to improve safety and add features like those in this update, but also to achieve the velvety smoothness that they have promised customers. It's the finer points of the algorithm that control the tinier stops and starts, and those minor jolts are what have made the Autopilot ride less than perfect thus far. This version will hopefully prove to be both smoother and safer.

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[Twitter](<https://x.com/KarlaLant>)