Hardware

Autopilot 1.0 (Mobileye)

Autopilot 1.0 (Mobileye) was dropped on 19 Oct 2016, 2 years after it launched on 9 Oct 2014.

Launched 9 Oct 2014 Killed 19 Oct 2016 Lived 2 years Dead 9 years ago

The first Autopilot, built on Mobileye's EyeQ3 vision chip. The partnership collapsed publicly after the 2016 Florida fatality, with each company blaming the other, and Tesla replaced it with in-house Hardware 2. HW1 cars can never be upgraded.

Archived screenshot of the source reporting the end of Autopilot 1.0 (Mobileye) — Screenshot of the live page, captured 21 Aug 2026. Kept on this server so the record survives the page it came from.

Electrek — 26 Jul 2016

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