Just how much better is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (beta) add-on, compared to regular Autopilot? A new video shares a direct comparison between both, and clarifies just how much better the $10,000 USD add-on is for Tesla owners.
YouTube channel CMePrint released a new video recently, showing a side-by-side comparison between Tesla’s regular Autopilot system and its newest Full Self-Driving beta version 8.1. The difference is stunning, to say the least, and it gives the viewer a tangible idea of how FSD is a major upgrade to the Autopilot system.
The video begins on a windy, uphill street, where the regular Autopilot reportedly was not able to complete the trip on its own. In the host’s FSD beta video, however, we can see the Tesla navigating the curvy road, even swerving around out of place traffic cones, while remaining in its lane.
“Our per-camera networks analyze raw images to perform semantic segmentation, object detection and monocular depth estimation. Our birds-eye-view networks take video from all cameras to output the road layout, static infrastructure and 3D objects directly in the top-down view,” describes Tesla’s Autopilot website.
“Our networks learn from the most complicated and diverse scenarios in the world, iteratively sourced from our fleet of nearly 1M vehicles in real time. A full build of Autopilot neural networks involves 48 networks that take 70,000 GPU hours to train ?. Together, they output 1,000 distinct tensors (predictions) at each timestep.”
Elon Musk previously said he was ‘extremely confident’ of a Full Self-Driving release in 2021. Currently, there are over 1,000 FSD beta testers, according to Musk, who also said FSD subscriptions are coming soon, in the next 1-2 months.
