Tesla wants to help you avoid hitting UFOs.

Seriously, that is in their latest press release. There is also some other stuff in there, about the Autopilot 8.0 update and how it will help increase driver safety, but it really all boils down to UFOs. So how is it going to do all this (more safety, fewer UFO collisions)?

In IT Blogwatch, we keep our eyes peeled for unidentified flying objects. 

So what are these updates? Alexandria Sage and David Shepardson give us the background:

Tesla… [is] updating its semi-autonomous driving system Autopilot with new limits on hands-off driving that likely would have prevented a fatality in May…the update…will be available within a week or two through an “over-the-air” software update [and will] rely foremost on radar to give Tesla’s…cars a better sense of what is around them and when to brake.

Radar, huh? How is the automaker going to do that? Shawn Knight fills in the blanks:

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