Business Desk 
Feb 25, 2025
Amid rapid escalation in the battle of driverless cars worldwide, Tesla has rolled out the city navigation system, part of the "autopilot" feature of its electric vehicles (EVs), in China.
Designed to autonomously navigate city streets, the driver-assistance feature made its way to Tesla vehicles in China with an autopilot update, according to Reuters.
The software update's promise for the autopilot feature was made to Tesla users in China via in-app notification, with major capabilities including automatic lane-changing, based on speed and route, reading traffic signal lights at intersections, and then deciding whether to turn.
Under the hood of Tesla vehicles, all of the aforementioned features are executed in the presence of an in-car camera observing driver attention, as stated in the notification displayed to Tesla China users.
These driver-assisting functionalities are an imitation of those available in Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" (FSD). The only distinctive property is that these features are not as efficient as in the US, owing to less data training on Chinese roads and traffic rules.
While the array of FSD driving-assistance technologies leverages generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) to address intricate traffic conditions, the autopilot system is responsible for the oversight of conditions encountered more commonly while driving.
