During Tesla’s Q2 2020 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk shed new details on the rollout of Autopilot’s Full Self-Driving feature, which would be a Tesla able to drive by itself without human intervention between destinations.
Musk said currently Full Self-Driving is “profoundly better than people realize,” emphasizing the release is still on track for a 2020 release.
The CEO said FSD would be “one of the biggest asset value increases in history” for Tesla owners, who invested in the add-on, citing how overnight a few million cars would “suddenly become five times more valuable.”
As for FSD, Musk said he was able to commute from home to work with the latest software in his own Tesla with nearly zero interventions.
Musk explained the Autopilot rewrite is what really matters for Full Self-Driving, adding “what we’ve been doing so far is really just mostly 2D, and not well correlated in time. It’s hard to convey just how much better a fully 4D system would work.”
The release of FSD would be of course dependent on regulatory jurisdictions, added Musk.
Again, time will tell if Tesla is able to stick to its FSD release timeline, as previously Musk has said a Tesla would be able to drive itself across the United States by the end of 2017, but that never materialized.
Earlier this month, the price of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving add-on increased to $8,000 USD.
