Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy has been working on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) platform for several years now, and in a new Robot Brains Podcast with Pieter Abbeel, Karpathy details his path to working with artificial intelligence, how Tesla’s FSD is going, what it’s like to work with CEO Elon Musk, comparisons between Waymo and […]
According to the company’s website, Tesla has changed the price of an infotainment computer upgrade for, the MCU2 Retrofit, to $2,000 (USD) for Model S and Model X vehicles with Autopilot 2 or 2.5 (via @tesla_adri), an increase of $500 USD. Those with older Autopilot Computers, like many pre-2018 units of the Models S and […]
Tesla has again delayed its Hardware 3 (HW3) retrofit for Model 3 owners in Europe. As noted by @Tesla_adri, the delay has now reached over a year. “It’s getting silly. Tesla Model 3 owners in most of Europe are still waiting for the HW3 Upgrade. it just got pushed back again. please address this @elonmusk,” said […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday the company plans to expand its Full Self-Driving beta program, starting with the current version 8.2, released earlier this week. “If you want the Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta downloaded to your car, let us know. Doubling beta program size now with 8.2 & probably 10X size with 8.3. […]
On Wednesday evening, Tesla released a new software update for its Full Self-Driving beta testers. Software update 2021.4.11.1, also known as FSD beta 8.2, has impressed early testers so far. New Tesla FSD Beta updating pic.twitter.com/cN0a4prKhs — vincentyu.eth (@vincent13031925) March 4, 2021 Wow!!!!!!! Awesome! Editing videos 🤯🤯🤯@elonmusk #FSDBeta 8.2 is amazing! — James Locke (@arctechinc) […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared some new updates regarding the status of the company’s Full Self-Driving add-on for Autopilot. According to Musk on Tuesday evening, he reiterated the FSD beta build he’s using “normally” can drive him around without any interventions. He also teased the next version is a “big step change” beyond version […]
We now have an update on when Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) subscriptions will launch, according to the company’s CEO Elon Musk. Back in December, Musk said FSD subscriptions would be releasing “early next year”. On Monday, Musk has now clarified, responding “Q2 for sure”, when asked by @WholeMarsBlog about the launch timeline. Q2 for sure […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is supposedly receiving “superhuman” improvements to come soon, set to benefit the standard Autopilot system too. Until then, we’ll just have to settle for “average human” self-driving, which, as it turns out, is still pretty impressive. In a new video released by Sofiaan Fraval and James Locke, both FSD beta testers […]
One burning question Tesla owners have had for the longest time is whether their Autopilot add-on of Full Self-Driving, would be transferrable to their vehicle purchase from the company. According to this exact question posed during today’s Q4 2020 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk answered it to say it’s not coming anytime soon. The Tesla […]
Currently, Tesla’s Autopilot Full Self-Driving (FSD) add-on costs a cool $10,000 USD. But that add-on follows the car and not the owner who paid for it. What about if you purchased FSD and then want to trade in your Tesla for a newer model? It would make sense for FSD to be considered as part […]
Tesla offered a last-minute incentive during the final days of 2020 to push for deliveries, offering a free 3-month trial to Full Self-Driving (FSD) for new owners. This freebie may have helped the company achieve its goal of surpassing 500,000 cars built in a single year. Now, we’re seeing new Tesla owners share 3-month FSD […]
In a final push for end of year deliveries, Tesla will be giving a free 3-month trial of Full Self-Driving to the last deliveries of 2020. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday afternoon, “All Tesla cars delivered in the final three days of the year will get three months of the Full Self-Driving option […]
Tesla has dropped the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) upgrade for select Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) owners, as the price is now showing as $5,000 USD in the U.S. The upgrade would bring full FSD features such as Traffic Light and Stop Sign Control. To those EAP owners who wanted a cheaper FSD @marc_benton it […]
In a new ranking of multiple advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) popular in China from 42Mark, the Tesla Model 3’s Full Self-Driving landed first place in a set of criteria that takes multiple situations and environments into account (via @Ray4Tesla; translated). The made-in-China (MIC) Model 3 landed a total score of 283, with the BMW X5, […]
Last night, Tesla released its 2020.44.15.4 software update for Full Self-Driving beta testers. As expected, testers were quick to test this latest beta software and have again shared videos online. The release notes don’t include any major changes, so this update is for bug fixes and ongoing improvements to FSD. 2020.44.15.4 releases notes can be […]
