Here is a review of Tesla FSD 12.1. FSD 12.1 has single-stack end-to-end neural nets trained with millions of video clips for the driving controls.
The car drives more like a human.
You’re driving in the fast lane (left) of a two-lane highway because slower cars stay in the right lane. Then a faster car approaches from behind. FSD v12 signals, safely switches to the slower lane, lets the faster car pass, then switches back into the fast lane and stays there.
Speed control is much smoother and appears to adjust itself smoothly with the surrounding traffic flow.
FSD v12 is more patient and assertive during lane-changing maneuvers. There’s no more “middle-of-the-change hesitation” (changing mind in the middle of a lane change).
#FSD beta v12.1 is finally here. I received the OTA update while our family was vacationing at Universal Studios in LA. I couldn't wait to get home and upgrade to FSD. The release notes for 12.1 were surprisingly simple, stating that v12 has single-stack end-to-end neural nets… pic.twitter.com/MYDDcSmtD2
— Tony Tong (@GoProAI) January 1, 2024
All previous FSD versions struggled and tended to snake left and right within what the car perceived as a “wide” lane. The snaking problem is finally gone in v12 with the end-to-end neural networks for driving controls – it simply learns how a good human driver would handle such a situation – just stays the course.
FSD v12 is a step change that fundamentally solves those hard-to-solve issues by just mimicing video of many, many human drivers.
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We in America have been taught during the last 40+ years that it is always someone else’s fault. Tesla says pay attention at all times. Lawyers say that is not clear enough. The fact that you are stupid, or negligent, or distracted by a cell phone is not YOUR fault. People need to take responsibility for their own lives!
People belong in jail for building and promoting this dangerous FSD, many killed which they would never acknowledge,the number could be thousands or hundreds, we will never know as Elon has the courts and regulators corrupted as Al Capone had Chicago.
Even if it worked, we would never know,as they have cried wolf a hundreds of times.
Same for Henry Ford, responsable for +10 million death worldwide.
People belong in jail for building and promoting dangerous farming combines and grain storage equipment. Who cares how much better the world is with abundant food? The only thing that matters is that thousands have died because of high-powered farm equipment and grain silos.
Let’s murder everyone who tries to make the world better and safer.
He said that Tesla should be able to do self driving from LA to NY in 2017. Now it is 2024.
They did a lot but perhaps it was mistake to ditch radar. There are so many exceptions and driving is delicate thing so there will need to be true intelligence to safely drive without intervention. It can drive fine 99,99 % of the time, but when that exception comes, it is a problem.
They need to take it slow, because if something happens it could damage the company a lot.
They are taking it pretty slow. They figured out programming only gets you so far…the car needs to learn, like people do. Which is why this update is the biggest one yet, FSD cars NEED AI, unless it’s a simple pre-programmed route, like a airport shuttle or something.
Tesla is huge on safety, always get 5 stars, and when YOUR driving with autopilot on, it’s the safest car on the road.
The radar and cameras were providing conflicting information to the decision software. Tesla tried to work through the problem but eventually decided that the only solution was to delete the radar inputs.
Fixing nuisances is fine, nice even.
How does it handle unexpected stationary objects in the road?
Ramming parked fire trucks at 80mph is a bad look.
Yet it is still officially level 2 self-driving.
Those SAE levels were clearly written around the geofenced, Lidar and hi def maps approach. FSD 12+ seems clearly capable of driving anywhere within a system of rules and customs it’s been trained on, much like a human driver. The only thing keeping it officially at level 2 is liability and regulation.