Self-DrivingIncorrect
“The Tesla Semi will go into production in 2019, with Enhanced Autopilot — automatic emergency braking, automatic lane keeping and lane departure warning — standard on the truck, which is also platooning-enabled.”
Said Nov 16, 2017Deadline Dec 31, 2019Tesla Semi unveiling, Hawthorne CA, November 16, 2017; Commercial Carrier Journal
Production did not begin in 2019: the timeline slipped to 2020, then 2021, then 2022, with only a handful of trucks delivered to PepsiCo at the end of 2022 and the first high-volume-line Semi rolling out of Giga Nevada in April 2026. Convoy mode and the self-driving claims were quietly dropped from Tesla's messaging.