Following the previous cancellation of the configuration of the millimeter-wave radar and the sensing of the related AutoPilot functions by the Tesla Vision vision lens system, the original Tesla factory recently announced on the official website that since the beginning of October, it will be sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Taiwan. All Model 3 and Model Y vehicles will no longer be equipped with USS ultrasonic sensors. A total of 12 ultrasonic sensors on the front and rear bumpers will be cancelled, which is equal to the distance sensing during parking. Tesla Vision Vision Lens Detection. However, the cancellation of vehicles equipped with USS sensors in the early stage of delivery will temporarily disable the automatic parking and summoning functions of the FSD system.
The original Tesla Vision vision solution only operates on APs, etc., and the USS is still used for parking at close distances.
In the past, the Autopilot driving assistance system used a combination of lenses and millimeter-wave radar, and the parking distance was measured by up to 12 USS ultrasonic sensors on the front and rear bumpers of the vehicle. The Tesla Vision vision technology, which was launched in May 2021, simply uses a camera lens and is equipped with neural network back-end processing. Many new Tesla vehicles are no longer equipped with millimeter-wave radar, and the vision system has a “250-meter powerful field of view processing.” Even the optional FSD (Full Self-Driving) fully automatic assisted driving suite can fully rely on Tesla Vision vision technology to detect movements.
The picture shows the related description of 12 USS ultrasonic sensors in the past.
The Model 3 car series introduced in the Taiwan market since the beginning of 2022 has been changed to the Tesla Vision vision lens solution as the detection of AutoPilot assisted driving and FSD fully automatic assisted driving suite. Even the original Tesla factory will disable the detection mechanism that the original car is equipped with millimeter-wave radar through OTA updates, and also change the Tesla Vision vision solution as the basis for assisted driving.
However, the proximity sensing when parking is still handled by the USS ultrasonic sensor. Like the Model 3 and Model Y, a total of 12 USS ultrasonic sensors are configured on the front and rear bumpers to display relevant information and warnings that are a few centimeters away from the front and rear on the central control screen.
In the past, the Model 3 and Model Y sold around the world were equipped with a total of 12 USS ultrasonic sensors on the front and rear bumpers for parking distance measurement.
Say goodbye to USS sensing, Taiwan’s Model Y and the new Model 3 will all use Tesla Vision
However, such a combination seems to have become “the past tense”. Tesla’s original factory has quietly revised relevant information on its official website recently, announcing that from early October 2022, all Model 3 and Model Y sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan will no longer be equipped with ultrasonic sensors. And changed to provide “Autopilot Automatic Assisted Driving”, “Enhanced Autopilot Automatic Assisted Driving (EAP)”, “Fully Automatic Assisted Driving (FSD)” and active safety protection functions provided by Tesla Vision alone.
In the next few months, Tesla Model 3 and Model Y new cars sold in other parts of the world will also remove the USS sensor, and this change will also be applied to the Model S and Model X vehicles in 2023.
Tesla’s original factory has quietly revised relevant information on its official website recently, announcing that from early October 2022, all Model 3 and Model Y sold in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Taiwan will no longer be equipped with ultrasonic sensors.
The domestic Tesla official website has canceled the description of the USS sensor in the past on the relevant model page.
In other words, as soon as the Taiwan market finally announced in September 2022 that the German Berlin-made Model Y, which was officially sold at 2.2999 million and 2.5999 million, will be officially delivered in the fourth quarter, the whole car will have been removed. 12 version of the USS sensor. Similarly, the Model 3 series introduced in Taiwan after October will also be fully handed over to Tesla Vision vision solutions for long-distance driving assistance and short-distance parking distance detection.
The Taiwan market finally announced in September 2022 that the Model Y, which was officially sold at 2.2999 million and 2.5999 million, will be the version with 12 USS sensors removed from the whole car when it is officially delivered in the fourth quarter.
But in the early days of this transition, Tesla also stated that these vehicles delivered after October 2022 without USS sensors will temporarily limit or disable the four major functions when they are delivered. These functions include the “parking assistance” that is generally carried on standard vehicles, as well as the functions of “automatic parking”, “summoning”, and “smart calling” that are used by vehicles with optional EAP or FSD systems. Tesla’s original factory will restore the above functions through OTA software updates in the future.
In the early days of the transition, Tesla’s original factory also stated that these vehicles without USS sensors will be delivered after October 2022, and the four major functions will be temporarily limited or disabled during delivery.
And for vehicles delivered in October 2022 and later, will Model 3 and Model Y safety ratings be affected by switching to Tesla Vision, which does not use ultrasonic sensors? Tesla’s original factory also stated that this major change will not affect the safety evaluation of relevant agencies, emphasizing that vehicles equipped with Tesla Vision have the exact same crash safety rating as vehicles with vision + radar + USS.
In addition, for the old owner’s vehicle that is equipped with 12 USS sensor hardware in the whole car, Tesla’s original factory said that it does not plan to remove the function of the USS ultrasonic sensor in the existing vehicle at present. The USS sensor function for older car owners will not be canceled through an OTA software update, as was previously forced to disable the mmWave radar function.
