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Reader Response Draft 2

  The Tesla autopilot system, also known as Full Self Driving (FSD) is a revolutionary autopilot system designed to become fully autonomous soon (The Economic Times, 2023). Our research focuses primarily on the safety features of the system, the autopilot software, and how they work in conjunction with the Graphical User Interface (GUI). There are three levels of the autopilot system which vary based on how much you pay for the vehicle. It starts with the basic autopiloting system, the enhanced autopiloting system, and the full self-driving capability system, which costs more than the base features of the autopilot system (Ahsan, 2023). Tesla Vision, which consists of eight externally installed cameras around the vehicle provides a 360-degree view of its surroundings, to identify whatever obstacles you might encounter on the road (Dnistran, 2023). Tesla has also gotten rid of the traditional buttons and controls on the dashboard and has replaced them with just one big touchscreen devic

Reader Response Draft 1

  The Tesla autopilot system, also known as the Full Self Driving (FSD) is a revolutionary autopilot system designed to become fully autonomous in the near future. (The Economic Times, 2023) Our research is focused primarily on the safety features of the system, the autopilot software and how they work in conjunction with the Graphical User Interface (GUI). There are three levels to the autopilot system which vary based on how much you pay for the vehicle. It starts off with the basic autopiloting system, the enhanced autopiloting system and lastly the full self-driving capability system, which unfortunately costs way more than the base features of the autopilot system. (Ahsan, 2023) Tesla Vision, which are eight externally installed cameras around the vehicle provide a 360-degree view of its surroundings, so as to identify whatever obstacles you might encounter on the road. Tesla recently made the switch from radar to cameras as they believe that the cameras will be able to view its s