Tesla has sent out version 12.5 of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. While CEO Elon Musk used the occasion to reiterate the impending advent of totally unsupervised self-driving, we should have known better by now.
Tesla Full Self-Driving version 12.5
The newest FSD version is now available for vehicles equipped with Tesla’s Hardware 4 (HW4) array of sensors and processors. Owners of earlier Tesla Cybertruck cars with HW3 will have to wait as the firm works on adapting the software for the less powerful hardware. Musk predicts a ten-day delay, but history suggests it may take longer. According to Electrek, The performance disparity between HW3 and HW4 highlights a rising issue among Tesla watchers: Can the company’s older technology sustain the more complicated software necessary for FSD in its current condition, never alone true autonomous driving? With each update requiring more computing power, HW3 will almost certainly never attain the promised degree of autonomy. For those who own HW4, version 12.5 promises considerable improvements. Musk has suggested that drivers might go a year without needing to intervene, a bold assertion that has sparked criticism. Even Tesla devotees, who are anxious to test the new software, find such a claim difficult to accept. The merger of highway and street driving stacks, which was intended to boost the system’s capacity to handle complicated driving scenarios, has been postponed until a later update once again. This lowers expectations for version 12.5 and emphasizes the difficulties Tesla confronts in combining the varying requirements of various driving scenarios. Despite the continuing questions and delays, the introduction of FSD 12.5 represents another step forward in Tesla’s goal of autonomous driving. While the CEO’s expectations may never be fulfilled by the current generation of cars, the progress done thus far is obvious. Related
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