On early Monday morning, Tesla CEO said the company will be able to have ‘superhuman’ self-driving, when the company moves its neural nets to 8-camera surround video.
Replying to a Full Self-Driving video from @WholeMarsBlog touting the learning advantages of Autopilot, Musk added, “Tesla is steadily moving all NNs to 8 camera surround video. This will enable superhuman self-driving.”
Tesla is steadily moving all NNs to 8 camera surround video. This will enable superhuman self-driving.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2021
When asked by Viv (@flcnhvy), “Will standard Autopilot run on 8-camera surround video as well, ie same NN as FSD, just with limited functionality/disabled features?”, Musk replied, “Yes, although it will be crazy not to turn on FSD.” This means those without a Full Self-Driving add-on will still benefit from this upgrade on regular Autopilot.
Yes, although it will be crazy not to turn on FSD
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2021
The Tesla CEO also clarified, “the entire “stack” from data collection through labeling & inference has to be in surround video. This is a hard problem. Critically, however, this does not require a hardware change to cars in field.”
Tesla’s current FSD beta is only available in the United States, but expansion to Canada is expected soon. Musk also recently clarified a new numbering and naming scheme is coming for FSD beta. Despite the most recently FSD beta release showing as 10.8, Musk says the current build is actually considered “8.1”.
We’re switching to a more sensible FSD version numbering to distinguish between major & minor updates. Current build is FSD 8.1. It drove me to an unfamiliar location in LA & back last night with no interventions!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 23, 2021
