Tesla Enhanced Autopilot comes to Australia for $5100

Tesla’s ‘Enhanced Autopilot’ (EAP) system has been added as an option in Australia, entering beneath the ‘Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) system.

Priced at $5100, EAP debuts as a more affordable alternative to the top-shelf FSD package, which at $10,100 is twice the price and still hasn’t made it to Australia – although if Elon Musk’s latest missive to a curious tweeter is any indication, a late-2022 debut could now be on the cards.

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How do the systems differ?

Enhanced Autopilot adds Navigate on Autopilot, Auto Lane Change, Autopark and Smart Summon.

Opting for FSD brings Traffic Light and Stop Sign control, and it’s these extra functions that round out what is still officially described as a ‘beta’ system.

While EAP and FSD are cost options, all Tesla models come standard with basic Autopilot, which adds auto-steering and adaptive cruise control – common ‘level 1’ and ‘level 2’ autonomous technologies now featured in many new cars.

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In all cases, and despite regular posts online revealing that many drivers don’t comply, Tesla makes clear on its website that all of its “self-driving” systems require active human supervision – while Australian laws still do not allow motorists to take their hands off the wheel while driving. Indeed, even one-handed steering is technically only allowed, and briefly, while changing gears or indicating.

Following its launch in the US, EAP reached the right-hand-drive UK market last year. Today’s news also sees Singapore and New Zealand opened up to the new option.