--- title: "Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month" description: "Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month." date: "2020-03-05" modified: "2020-03-05" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-new-self-driving-features" categories: - "Advanced Transport" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "Self-Driving Vehicles" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "elon musk" - "Self-driving cars" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk: New Self-Driving Features Will Come Out This Month ![Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expecting his electric car company Tesla to release more full self driving features later this month.]() *\Image: Tesla\* ## No Hands! According to [a tweet]() by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the electric car company is going to "release more \[Full Self-Driving\] features later this month." While Musk hasn't confirmed what these features will turn out to be, we can make some educated guesses — and it might even be the long-awaited "City Autopilot" feature. ## FSD Teslas already have an intelligent lane-keep assist and cruise control as part of their included Autopilot package. Full Self-Driving Capability (FSD), however, comes at a steep $7,000 extra and allows the car to get on and off highways, change lanes, parallel park, and even navigate parking lots autonomously. Despite its name, the FSD package does not currently allow Tesla vehicles to completely take care of driving. Human drivers still have to keep their hands on the steering wheel with eyes on the road. As such, the name has rubbed some lawmakers the wrong way. Last year, EU regulators [required]() Tesla to roll back some Autopilot features. ## City Streets So what's next? Tesla has been promising "automatic driving on city streets" since February 2019, as [*Electrek* points out](). This means Tesla vehicles could learn how to read traffic lights and stop signs and navigate around built-up areas, not just highways. The carmaker even promised the city streets feature to be "coming later this year," according to *Electrek* — except that was 2019. **READ MORE:** [Tesla to release more self-driving features in March — city street autopilot?]() \[*Electrek*\] **More on Tesla:** *[Tesla Computer Hardware Stuns Competitors: “We Cannot Do It”]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()