Tesla founder and chief executive officer Elon Musk has revealed that the company's Enhanced Autopilot support for the Model S or Model X cars set to be released soon. In a statement on Nov. 26, Musk said that the company will start rolling out the update in "about three weeks."

This means that owners of Model S or Model X cars should be able to receive the Enhanced Autopilot update sometime in mid-December. The full deployment of the update will take months to be completed, but Tesla promised that it would start releasing the update in time for the holidays.

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There are speculations that traditional safety systems will most probably comprise the first release of the update with other features being slowly rolled out in the days to come. According to Engadget, among the features expected to be activated with the update are Smart Summon, autosteer, autonomous emergency braking and adaptive cruise control. Tesla did not provide details about which car features will be activated with the upcoming update.

Despite the massive hype surrounding the upcoming update, some tech analysts have noted that Level 5 autonomy driving will not be part of the update this year. Full autonomous driving, Although this feature have been highlighted by Tesla on several previews, fully autonomous driving will most likely arrive next year.

According to CNet, all Tesla cars that are currently being manufactured are equipped with 12 ultrasonic sensors, eight cameras, a forward-facing radar, and the powerful Nvidia Titan GPU. Tesla said that the Nvidia Titan should be powerful enough to enable Level 5 autonomy once the feature rolls out. Tesla cars do not have lidar, a sensor which works like a radar but with laser light, despite the fact that most autonomous cars from other companies have this component. Tesla said that the company's upcoming Model 3 sedan would have the lidar component.