Tesla has taken the wraps off its latest Full Self-Driving (Supervised) V13 edition, merely a few months after it released V12.5.
Earlier, its AI team promised that FSD 13 will be done in October, perhaps in time for the Robotaxi demo, and indeed the Cybercabs at the event had been running FSD 13.
The public launch, however, just happened, and Tesla has issued a laundry list of FSD 13.2 release notes, such as a twice faster reaction and collision avoidance thanks to a three times larger AI model that has been trained on computers that are five times faster.
All these dry processing statistics like 5x-6x improved miles between necessary interventions, though, there are tangible benefits for the driver on FSD 13. They can start driving on FSD directly from Park with the touch of a button, for instance, and the new city or highway driving profiles allow for a smoother ride.
According to Tesla's Yun-Ta Tsai, the push to release FSD 13 has been unprecedented:
We refactored the entire system to drastically simplify the pipeline — direct photons to control — yet providing a lot more functionality under the same unify framework. It is probably one of the biggest rewrite in years when we began set foot on the journey of “photon count” 4 years ago.
Perhaps the most visible FSD 13 features, however, are three-point-turns and self-parking where the Tesla comes out of a parked post, reverses, or parks itself, with parking locations like driveways or garages coming in a version update. FSD 13 comes with camera visibility and cleaning improvements, and a future update will deal with camera view blocks better.
FSD 13 can detect and offer ways to go around road closures, too, as it can more efficiently process map data and navigate accordingly. Tesla has also addressed some pet peeves of FSD users such as unneeded braking as well as overly cautious and slow driving around parking lots.
Unfortunately, all the new FSD 13.2 features are only reserved for Tesla owners on the newest HW4 or AI4 set of computers and camera kits. The vast majority of Teslas are still on HW3, though, so Elon Musk teased that Tesla might upgrade them to HW4 for free if it can't make the next unsupervised FSD update run on older hardware.
Now that Elon Musk is in charge of the DOGE government efficiency department, unsupervised FSD should roll out faster, so it will soon know if it will have to issue said HW4 retrofits.
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