Tesla seems to have decided to conclude the Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta program after more than three years, based on the latest 2024.3.10 Release Notes. The American electric vehicle giant now calls its advanced driver-assist system “Full Self-Driving (Supervised).”
Tesla drops the FSD “Beta” moniker
Tesla has finally delivered on its promise to remove the “Beta” moniker associated with its FSD system, marking the end of the program’s second stage of development.
It is a minor but notable shift that suggests increased confidence in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system, led by Elon Musk.
Tesla evidently referred to its advanced driver-assist system as FSD (Supervised) v12 with the release of the 2024.3.10 software update. Refer to the following sections of the latest release notes:
“Under your supervision, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can drive your Tesla almost anywhere. It will make lane changes, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects, and make left and right turns. You and anyone you authorize must use additional caution and remain attentive. It does not make your vehicle autonomous. Do not become complacent.
Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is enabled on your vehicle. To use the feature, pull the drive stalk down once (for Model 3 and Model Y) or press the right scroll wheel button once (for Model S and Model X). You can disable Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Autopilot Settings.”
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What’s special about the FSD (Supervised) v12?
According to the latest 2024.3.10 Release Notes (via Not A Tesla App), the FSD (Supervised) v12 replaced more than 300,000 human-coded lines with neural nets from millions of video data collected by Tesla cars to improve city driving.
“FSD (Supervised) v12 upgrades the city-streets driving stack to a single end-to-end neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing over 300k lines of explicit C++ code.”
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With the introduction of the end-to-end neural nets, Tesla cut the FSD’s heavy reliance on programmers’ codes. In that sense, artificial intelligence (AI) will now power the functions of Tesla EVs with the FSD suite, including the vision system, among others.
Positive feedbacks
Tesla has apparently received positive feedback for the FSD (Supervised) from early testers so far.
Users from the US and Canada reported zero engagement drives over the weekend. In addition, longtime FSD Beta users have claimed that the latest version is the most “capable, confident, and humanlike” software update in history.
CEO Musk also instructed Tesla delivery centers to provide FSD (Supervised) V12.3.1 test rides to interested customers during the delivery process.
Tesla Chief Elon Musk has been promising its customers that the FSD v12 will aid the company to finally achieve its full autonomy target. It would be crucial for Tesla to make the technology work, considering that it is already in the last phase of its FSD development. If it fails, Tesla may need to forget its goals or start from scratch.
Tesla currently offers a one-month free FSD (Supervised) trial in the US and Canada, even to owners who did not buy FSD.
