Tesla has unveiled a 3D reconstruction park help system that serves because the long-awaited bird-eye view.

Chicken’s eye view, a imaginative and prescient monitoring system that renders a view of a automobile from the highest to assist park and navigate tight areas, has turn into a preferred characteristic in premium autos and it has even moved down market over the previous few years.

It’s nearly ubiquitous in most trendy luxurious vehicles and supplied in tech packages in lots of inexpensive autos.

But, Tesla, a premium model, has by no means supplied the characteristic.

CEO Elon Musk mentioned that the characteristic is coming, however that was all the way in which again in 2020.

It took greater than 3 years, however it’s lastly right here – kind of.

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s head of Autopilot software program, introduced a brand new “high-fidelity park help” characteristic in a publish on X:

Whereas not a conventional “bird-eye view”, it principally performs the identical perform and extra.

Elluswamy describes the characteristic:

This replaces the 2D impediment band that clients had with a high-resolution 3D reconstruction of the Tesla’s environment. That is an extension of our Occupancy Community, with a lot larger decision to assist with tight parking maneuvers. The obstacles are modeled as a steady distance area. This enables us to signify arbitrary shapes in a clean and computationally environment friendly approach. The autos you see aren’t some fastened meshes, however the community’s real-time prediction of the form.

The engineer says that the characteristic is now coming as a part of the Tesla Vacation Replace, which is a welcomed addition as we beforehand reported that the replace was in any other case fairly weak.

Nevertheless, the characteristic is barely coming to Tesla Imaginative and prescient autos with out ultrasonic sensors (Mannequin 3/Y since 2022 and Mannequin S/X since 2023).

Elluswamy says that the characteristic will finally additionally come to older Tesla autos outfitted with ultrasonic sensors, however he didn’t affirm a timeline.