Tesla’s Hardware 4.0, the much-anticipated successor to the Hardware 3.0 computing system that currently powers the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) features in the company’s electric vehicles (EVs), was recently referenced in type approvals for the Model S and Model X in Europe.
References to FSD Hardware 4.0 were originally discovered in documents Tesla filed with the Netherlands Vehicle Authority (RDW) by a member of the German forum Tesla Fahrer und Freunde (TFF).
“Introduction of Generation 4 complex vehicle control system (Autopilot),” reads the filing. It looks like Tesla has already received approval to sell Model S and Model X units with the new Autopilot computer in Europe, indicating that deliveries could begin imminently.
In the same filings, Tesla also detailed another minor change which replaces the Tesla logo on the rear of the Model S/X with the company’s lettering.
This comes only a couple of weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company’s long-awaited Cybertruck, slated to go into production this summer, will ship with Hardware 4.0 onboard. While we don’t know a lot about HW 4.0 yet, one leak that surfaced online last month detailed the upgraded cameras and pointed to a reduction in the number of front cameras from three to two.
