Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that the company plans to bring some of the advancements powering its unsupervised Robotaxi software to upcoming public builds of Full Self-Driving (FSD).
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Musk revealed that Tesla’s general-purpose FSD software is about to receive a “step change” in performance, thanks to integrations of new capabilities from the version powering Robotaxi vehicles in the company’s Austin pilot program.
“We need to validate that improvements for Austin don’t cause regressions elsewhere,” Musk explained, noting that some of these changes require more testing before they can roll out fleet-wide. As for global customers, Musk added that Tesla is currently “awaiting regulatory approval” for FSD in Europe and China, and remains hopeful that it will come “soon.”
Musk first teased these Robotaxi upgrades back in June, when he revealed that the Austin fleet would run on an entirely new version of Tesla’s FSD software. At the time, he said this branch would eventually merge into the main production release.
The Tesla chief also mentioned a separate, more powerful model in alpha testing, with around four times as many parameters. That model, he said at the time, still needed some polish. On Sunday, Musk offered a follow-up update, saying it’s “looking good so far” for a release in Q3.
In a final tease, Musk said Tesla hopes to expand its Robotaxi pilot to the Bay Area “as soon as the regulators approve,” adding that authorities there are “being quite reasonable” at the moment.
With major improvements to Tesla’s FSD stack on the horizon, and expanded Robotaxi deployments potentially around the corner, the company’s autonomous ambitions appear to be accelerating rapidly.
