Tesla (TSLA) has slowed-down the rollout of new point releases of its current FSD v12 self-driving software. Apparently, Tesla is not planning to release a new version beyond a point release of FSD v12.5.
This whole scenario suggests that the Tesla AI software and hardware teams are solely focusing on the next major release of the Tesla Full Self Driving software i.e. FSD v13.
In a previous update about FSD v13, Tesla gave a tentative release date of around Thanksgiving. This year’s Thanksgiving is coming on Thursday 28th November. That suggests that we are close to the FSD 13 release. But Tesla folks tend to get curious and excited by each passing day, Musk took to X (Twitter) to let them know that FSD v13 is still on schedule.
In response to a podcast video clip on X in which investor Brad Gerstner talked about Tesla FSD v13 and compared it to Waymo, Elon Musk replied “Coming soon”. Which suggests that Tesla is soon going to release FSD 13 to some external beta testers.
As it’s Elon Time, the OTA software update might get delayed due to technical and safety reasons. So, the FSD v13 rollout can begin anytime before Thanksgiving on Thursday to over the weekend or even delayed 1-2 weeks.
With the release of the FSD v13, Tesla expects the system to be improved around 1000x compared to how safe it was at the start of this year. With the passage of each release, the AI tech automaker expects to improve safety and miles between interventions exponentially.
With the advent of new self-driving technologies globally, new terms have been invented to represent newly developed features. To calculate Autopilot/FSD human interventions, experts have coined the term MCPI (miles per critical intervention). MCPI is a measure of how many miles were driven autonomously before the AI needed intervention by a human driver—also known as a disengagement.
In an Autopilot safety report earlier this year, Tesla reported a car crash every 1.4 million miles. With 1000x improvements coming with FSD v13 and subsequent point releases toward the end of this year, this number should theoretically increase to a crash every 1.4 billion miles of autonomous driving in a Tesla vehicle.
Initially, Tesla is going to release FSD v13 only to the newer HW4 vehicles. FSD v13 is going to be much safer and better as it’s going to utilize the power of the Nvidia H100 GPU cluster built at Giga Texas for the first time.
Hardware 3 (HW3) vehicles will be enabled later down the road or offered a free retrofit computer in the future to catchup with the newer HW4 and HW5 (AI5) cars.
This is going to be an exciting journey for Tesla, self-driving technology, and the entire automotive industry — stay tuned as we bring you the latest and most exciting news and Tesla FSD content.
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