Tesla FSD 12.5 Good Reviews But 12.5.X Releases for More Features and Improvements

Tesla FSD 12.5.X will add Actually Smart Summon in about a month. It could be in the 2-4 week timeframe to get 12.5.3 released and then widely released.

Tesla FSD 12.5 is showing some reverse driving for an automatic park.

Tesla FSD Tracker only has 17 drives submitted for FSD 12.5 and three had issues. This is not a sufficient sample to get the higher intervention rate properly measured.

Jeff Lutz had NEVER driven 3 consecutive routes with zero interventions, EVER. Until FSD 12.5. He Never touched the wheel, accelerator, or brake in his first 3 routes.

This is a meaningfully different level of performance in my experience so far. More to do.

Whole Mars drive Tesla FSD 12.5 drives for over an hour through LA rush hour traffic completely hands free with zero interventions.

2 thoughts on “Tesla FSD 12.5 Good Reviews But 12.5.X Releases for More Features and Improvements”

  1. Ok, 34 miles between interventions according to Tesla fsd tracker. Sure, the testers have only driven 144 miles, but what are the odds that the true number is, say, 2000 miles between interventions? So a small incremental improvement at best…

  2. My concern about Banish and ASS – it’s level 4 driving. FSD has to not just be ‘perfect’ for public parking lot under normal conditions (which is already parking lot chaos), it has a higher bar to cross – it has to handle adversarial use cases. Once people start using this, nefarious people will intentionally drive or jump in front of a TESLA in pursuit of a personal injury payment. I would NEVER engage Banish or ASS UNLESS Tesla was taking liability. And to date, there has been no mention of when and under what conditions TESLA will take liability for a crash. I don’t think you can have a responsible conversation about rollout of these features without a discussion on Tesla taking liability for a crash. Overall, until we start to hear specifics about the transfer of crash liability to Tesla, I’m not confident we’re realistically close to rollout of any Level 4 features.

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