FSD beta v11 is even BIGGER and MORE IMPORTANT than that. V11 is "Single Stack", which means Tesla will use one unified neural net for both city and highway driving.
Better for the tech forums, but FSD is not "one unified neural net' it's a bunch of them, sometimes with one feeding results to another. The single stack thing is just that they'd not be running an entirely different bunch of them for highway use vs city streets use, they'd use the same bunch for both.
Once proven, this single stack will become the basis for standard autopilot deployed on all cars sold in N. America.
All new ones certainly.
What's interesting there is it implies those still with HW 2.x will stop getting improvements/updates, since the HW isn't capable of running that code, and with AP1 as history it's unlikely they'll put much/any effort into future updates of an abandoned codebase. It's a relatively small % of the fleet at his point, and might encourage more of them to buy FSD to get the free driving computer upgrade too if the highway stack sees significant improvements from it that they otherwise can't get.
Why is this so important? Because it means that once "single stack" becomes the production version, then ALL Tesla cars will be gathering data for FSD
This... misunderstands a lot.
First- again HW2.x cars can't run this code, so it'd actually REMOVE some folks from the useful data gathering pool since today those cars provide data for the legacy highway code and they wouldn't in a single stack world. But they're a minor % of the fleet so not a huge deal.
Second- for HW3.x cars, all cars can
already gather FSD data. That's what shadow mode is.
Karpathy and others have explained this numerous times-- that the entire fleet (that can run the code) provides data for them.
Green has explained how it works on twitter a number of times if you want a bit more of a dive into the technical details.... but the really short version is they can send campaigns out to any or all cars, regardless of if they paid for FSD or are using FSD, to collect whatever Tesla is looking for at the time, and stuff will run in the background to look for and collect it- regardless of the active FSD state of the vehicle.
It's a pretty important thing to understand for why Teslas fleet collection data set is so large and powerful- I'm kind of surprised you didn't know this.