Tesla is Already Pushing Improvements to FSD

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is already being improved with learnings collected from the “cautious” drivers and owners with early access that have received the software push in the past two weeks.

Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted thanks to the “great Autopilot/AI team” for “working super hard” to make quick improvements to the system. Tesla released the new 2020.40.8.12 Friday, which observers said offered noticeable improvements for FSD and a new interface visualizations.

Musk said the company is currently measuring improvement primarily in “intervention probability.” While the car is in “Full Self-Driving” mode, drivers actually have to keep a hand on the wheel in case an intervention is necessary.

“This update addressed several issues, resulting in perhaps ~1/3 fewer interventions,” Musk said. “Many of the improvements consist of fixing silly bugs vs grand eureka moments. True for most beta releases in my experience.”

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Tesla plans to update the software every 5 to 10 days before a wide release by the end of the year.

Musk admitted that the system will never be perfect, but the company believes it can prove that Autopilot is safer than a human driver, which would give them confidence to remove the need for a driver’s hand on the wheel.

 

[Blucenturion]

Day after day, after day, my 2019 SR+ HW3 cannot solve this intersection and kicks off Autosteer, giving me a Red Steering Wheel and various alarms. I am following the Gray car that's rounded the bend.

 

[Blucenturion]

 

[captanzuelo]

These improvements won't help you any. You don't have the new Autopilot software yet

 

[LACALawyer]

These improvements won't help you any. You don't have the new Autopilot software yet

Priceless...

 

[golfpilot]

They stopped improving the cars ability to navigate a freeway and providing updates to the majority of its users like a year and a half ago.

 

[MrYenko]

Software updates will henceforth be distributed in descending order of combined social media follower/YouTube subscriber total.

 

[idriveacar]

I get the joke, but they reached the limits of what their previous stack could do, and had to take a few steps back. I'm happy to keep using the older implementation until they demonstrate the newer implementation is actually better.

 

[Terminator857]

> Tesla is Already Pushing Improvements to FSD
Has then been true for the past 5 years and will be true for the next 30 years?

 

[mark95476]

AP has gotten better since I've had my Tesla for ~1 year.

It used to follow the lead car into the turning lane ocassionally when going through intersections. Always left turns, but never right. It hasn't done this in a while (>2 weeks) with the 12.25.7 firmware, however, I'm hesitant to say it's been fixed since it takes time to manifest.

There are a lot of cyclists on the roads here and I can drive next to them without AP being overly cautious and braking. I think AP is judging distances to cyclists a lot better now. Say >5 ft and it won't brake.