Since its launch in October 2020, Full Self Driving was offered in beta in the United States and Canada before being suspended last March.
As a reminder, Tesla FSD was originally known as autopilot, and today it is characterized as “the possibility of fully autonomous driving”, “the possibility of fully autonomous driving” in the original version, with which the manufacturer promises the term automated city driving.
This option was priced in gold, as the customer had to pay no less than 15,000 USD equip your car. About 1.5 million Teslas are eligible (including those already on the road due to upgrades), and about 20% of them have the “Completely autonomous driving” option..
The next one will be good
After pulling his option from the market to possibly make a few tweaks, Elon Musk just announced on Twitter that FSD 12 will be the final version. In other words, given that we are using version 11, the next big update will be one.
Version 12 will not be a beta version
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023
This begs the question: when will version 12 appear? On that Elon Musk obviously hasn’t said anything yet. It may be available in six months, a year or even more. And how many v11 updates will arrive by then? Secrecy.
Level 5 objective for Tesla
FSD is currently in beta version 11. Among the latest updates received, the most significant one concerns the fact that it now runs on the same processor as Autopilot. This new scheme allowed for a closer integration of the two technologies and should allow Tesla to develop with greater range both on the highway and in urban conditions.
As for the software part, this evolution is usually accompanied by the introduction of serious innovations that improve work. It’s likely that the same will be true of fully autonomous driving, although we’re still a long way from Tesla’s ultimate goal. which should offer its customers autonomous driving level 5.
It currently sits at Level 2. According to Consumer Reports, Tesla’s driver assistance technology is only the seventh best after Ford BlueCruise, General Motors SuperCruise, Mercedes-Benz’s Driver Assistance, BMW’s Driving Assistance Professional, Toyota’s Safety Sense 3.0 and Travel Assist from Volkswagen.
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Source: Auto Plus
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