Cybertruck to get HW4 Full Self-Driving soon as FSD 12 night drive puts Tesla's AI update to the test

The "end-to-end AI" Full Self-Driving Beta 12 update is rolling out to the general Tesla public, after being tested by its employees in the past few months. Back in August, Elon Musk demonstrated an earlier FSD 12 build with a generous autonomous driving session around Palo Alto, touting the virtues of the single-stack, AI-driven FSD update.

Instead of using hundreds of thousands of lines of code to identify each traffic participant or situation, the Full Self-Driving Beta (yes, it's still a beta software) AI algorithms are now relying on a vast amount of video they've been fed to learn. This makes FSD 12 able to work without data connection on unfamiliar roads. Elon said that Tesla has been testing it in places as far out as Japan, New Zealand, Norway, or Thailand, even though it doesn't officially offer the Full Self-Driving Beta option outside North America.

The FSD 12 update also brings other niceties like automatic curb parking at self-identified spaces the driver can pick from, or maximum HW3 camera frame rate support for faster analysis of the surrounding environment. During the demo, the Hardware 3.0 cameras captured at their 36 FPS maximum, while the AI can theoretically process 50 FPS but can work as intended even with 24 FPS, too. In the FSD 12 test drive at night below, the cameras do their duties with aplomb despite the rainy weather and worsened visibility.

Speaking of cameras, the FSD 12 update is now rolling out to Tesla cars with the newest Hardware 4.0 kit  that has more cameras with larger sensors, while during the Tesla employee testing phase it was only available on HW3 vehicles. This goes to show that HW4 Teslas are no longer an afterthought when it comes to the Full Self-Driving feature, so there's now hope that the Cybertruck's FSD option will arrive very soon. 

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