Elon Musk took it for a spin Beta V12 Edition of Autonomous Driving System, just as Tesla’s CEO promised earlier in the week.
Elon Musk noted that the driver assistance software has become much smoother and handles difficult tasks like turning left at intersections better. “Very intuitive and smooth acceleration and turning”, he commented, since they hardly had to do an intervention or two while driving the V12.
All eight HW3 cameras ran at a maximum of 36 frames per second, which Elon Musk says can be processed faster with pure AI calculations. He also added that the software’s theoretical maximum is when processing around 50 frames per second, but in reality only 24 FPS is required for the road conditions for the FSD V12 software to do its job properly.
He mentions that now too The FSD’s AI is fed only large amounts of video to recognize what it needs to do in different situationsrather than individually coding each road element or situation as a roundabout or having to recognize each person on a scooter on the bike lane as such.
This allowed Tesla to remove hundreds of thousands of lines of code in FSD V12.This makes it lighter and more manoeuvrable, but it can also function in unfamiliar terrain without a data connection. Musk said that Tesla already has beta testers of the FSD V12 around the world, including in New Zealand, Norway, Thailand and Japan.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2023
Along with what appears to be a chief engineer at Tesla’s driver assistance software division, Musk broke down the stats the Tesla team had to grapple with on the way to developing a realistic FSD V12 driving mockup.
For example, that’s what he said Barely 0.5% of human drivers fully respect stop signs by stopping the vehicle, since they usually move at a few kilometers per hour when looking around. They used this as an example of how federal regulations on driver assistance software affect its development and real-world application.
The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which handles these regulations, has said the agency is finalizing its investigation into the behavior of Tesla’s self-driving software and will soon issue a decision and recommendations.
These likely include greater driver engagement and warning, as one of the NHTSA’s allegations against Tesla’s driver assistance software was precisely stop sign violations.