Hw4 lines up well with short range model y that wife wants anyways.
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Should I buy HW3 now or wait for hw4?
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I asked the Oracle in my Ouija board, and he said wait for HW6. It'll be an order of magnitude better.
GPinzone
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Boy am I glad I didn't get suckered into the upgrade at the "discount" price.
C141medic
Active Member
Is that the FSF (full self flying) feature?
Wait for hw 5. Should be out is a few years. Hw4 is so yesterYears. Lol.
woodisgood
Optimustic Pessimist
Not sure if serious, but generally speaking, anyone who's looking forward to the day they can just sleep in the car and nothing in-between now and then should just skip HW3.
Going to sound stupid... picking mine up Wednesday what is HW3-5
Don’t worry about tomorrow and enjoy the ride today....
xilex
Model P3D
It also has FTJ (Full Time Job) feature; the car will make $100k per year. So you don’t need to go to work anymore.
Shock-On-T
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The version of the autopilot computer.
V3 just came out.
Some people are asking whether to buy now or wait until V4 (in another 2 years or so).
Some other people are joking about waiting until V5 etc etc...
ElectricLee
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Thunder7ga
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No matter what you buy today, it is going to be outdated tomorrow. As long as the rest of the hardware still supports it, I am sure Tesla will have a path to upgrades (may be another cost for HW4 when that day comes). HW3 design was locked in August 2017, so you can see it is already 20 months old and by the time HW4 comes out it will be 4-5 years old. Just part of technology, expect upgrades every 3-5 years on quickly evolving technology.
It is more than that. Current Tesla cameras are low res. Will Tesla upgrade to higher res cameras to make viewing hand gestures and partially occluded objects easier? There is also technology for making depth perception easier called PDAF.
Google AI Blog: Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones
Will some of Tesla cameras upgrade to that? When will vehicle to vehicle communication be common?
Tesla has been gradually refining the instrumentation and computers in the car to increase its autonomous capabilities.
AP1 or HW1 was the original September 2014 package in partnership with Mobileye with a single front camera linked to a single radar and ultrasonic sensors to deliver the original Autopilot.
AP2 was the October 2016 introduction of an all Tesla solution with eight cameras and more capable ultrasound and an NVidia processor with ~40x the capacity.
AP2.5 was the quiet update in August 2017? with different cameras and radar and a new more powerful, water cooled computer.
AP3 is what they just started shipping, with a Tesla designed neural network optimized CPU and total redundancy for self driving. I haven't heard of any sensor changes to match the new CPU, but there might be.
The others are speculation. Tesla won't really know exactly what they need to solve the problem until after the problem is solved, and for something as complicated as full self driving, they might be finding edge cases the better hardware would help with for a long time after the basic problem is solved.
So it wouldn't be surprised if Tesla introduces new hardware shortly after they get FSD actually working correctly - hardware they didn't realize that they would want until then.
Knightshade
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There isn't. HW3 is just the computer swap- plug and play, by design. No change to sensors or wiring.
Kant.Ing
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