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                                                                    Tech T@lk


              spotify’s ‘only You’ gives users                                         Tesla’s in-car cameras will now


                    personalised experience                                               monitor its autopilot driving



                 udio streaming app  ists they would invite to a din-                   or owners  of the Tesla
                 Spotify has announced  ner party with Spotify making                   Model 3 or Model Y, it
        Aa new digital experience  a mix for each artist. Another                Fis apparently now possi-
        on Wednesday called ‘Only You.’  is ‘Your Artist Pairs,’ which           ble  that  the  in-car  camera will
        It will give users personalised  highlights unique pairings that         soon be monitoring the vehicle
        playlists in a shareable form. show off a listener’s musical             while on autopilot. According
            According to The Verge,  range, as  well  as ‘Your Audio             to TechCrunch, Tesla has re-
        the new feature has been in- Birth Chart,’ which gives users             portedly enabled the capability  only a few days after Tesla CEO
        spired by the company’s feature  their ‘Sun artist,’ or the person       through a software update. The  Elon Musk confirmed the com-
        ‘Wrapped’ that gives users cu- they listened to the most over            use of the new feature was orig- pany’s Model 3 and Model Y
        mulative stats on all the things  the past six months.                   inally spotted on Twitter after  vehicles, in North America,
        one listened to on Spotify in a         It will also include a new       a current Tesla owner took to  were being made without ra-
        given year.                          feature a ‘Moon artist’ option      the platform to post images of  dar. In a blog post, Tesla said it
            The     in-app    experience which is the artist they listen to      the latest software version on  will instead “rely on camera vi-
        ‘Only You’ will give users a vari- those shows off their emotion-        his Model Y. As noted by Tech- sion and neural net processing
        ety of playlists and data insights  al side; and their ‘Rising artist,’   Crunch, Tesla’s vehicles  origi- to deliver Autopilot, Full-Self
        based on their music listening  which is one they have recently          nally used sensors built into the  Driving and certain active safety
        habits, and a new feature called  found.                                 steering wheel to keep drivers’  features.”
        ‘Blend’ will let two friends au-        The ‘Audio Birth Chart’ and      hands on the wheel while on Au-          The  sensors  in  conjunction
        tomatically merge their musical  ‘Dream Dinner Party’ will up-           topilot. But according to plenty  with the cameras and LiDar are
        tastes into a playlist.              date daily, while the other data    of articles on the internet, it is  mainly used to detect spacing
            Per The Verge, among the  visualisation aspects of the fea-          very easy to fool the system into  and objects around it for things
        new experience highlights is  ture, like ‘Your Artist Pairs’, is         thinking your hands are on the  like blind spots, forward colli-
        ‘Your Dream Dinner Party,’  based on a limited set of time               wheel.                               sion warnings, automatic emer-
        which lets users pick three art- and will not update regularly.              The new feature also comes  gency braking, and more.


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