Tesla has started rolling out Full Self-Driving v12.1 to employees on Friday, as noted by Tesla Info (@TeslaInfoCom).
This is part of software update 2023.44.30.10, with release notes showing as “FSD Beta v12.1” in the car.
“FSD Beta v12 upgrades the city-streets driving stack to a single end-to-end neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing over 300k lines of explicit C++ code,” reads the release notes, seen on employee vehicles in the U.S. on a Model 3 and Model Y.
Back in August, Tesla CEO Elon Musk live-streamed a demo drive of FSD beta v12 on the streets of Palo Alto, California.
“It’s really smooth sailing in the car itself,” Musk said at the time while driving through a construction zone near Tesla’s headquarters. “It has never seen this construction before, but it’s just driving around it.” Musk continued to say, “There’s no line of code that tells the car to slow down for speed bumps or give clearance to bicyclists. This is all neural nets.”
In late November, FSD beta v12 was rolling out to employees with software update 2023.38.10. Now, we’re seeing 2023.44.30.10 include FSD beta v12.1. Tesla’s release notes confirm the driving stack is now based on a “single end-to-end neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing over 300k lines of explicit C++ code.” That sounds pretty insane. It remains unclear when early FSD beta testers will get to try v12, but expect that to happen sometime in the New Year.
