Wow, this is huge. Tesla is introducing a new active safety feature called Automatic Collision Evasion.
We know Full Self-Driving is great at avoiding accidents, but that's only when it's on. This new feature, when enabled, will allow the vehicle to enable FSD itself when necessary to avoid a collision.
Now, instead of just applying Automatic Emergency Braking to stop the vehicle, the vehicle will be able to steer to avoid a crash as well. Great to see.
Interestingly, the accelerator pedal, brake pedal, and steering will be muted while the evasive maneuver is in progress.
Not a Tesla App reports that the feature will only be available to users who paid for FSD. Not sure if that's true, but if it is I would encourage Tesla to make it available to all Tesla owners if possible. Safety at Tesla always comes standard, not behind a paywall.