Tesla Full Self-Driving (Beta) V12.1 Rolls Out To Wave1

Sunday - January 7 2024, 03:48 UTC - 10 months ago

Tesla has rolled out V12.1 of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta to Wave1, which includes 15,000+ personally-owned vehicles. This transition to a single stack end-to-end neural network eliminates the need for over 300,000 lines of human-written C++ code. The rollout of FSD V12.1 to Wave1 marks a major milestone in the development of the Autopilot system, and brings Tesla one step closer to its goal of a fully self-driving vehicle.

TeslaScope tracks Tesla software and they confirm that Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta V12.1 has now rolled out to Wave1, which includes 15,000+ personally-owned vehicles. The release notes for FSD beta v12.1 appear to show just a single paragraph detailing the change, which TeslaScope expects will be added to before its public release to non-employees.The account has also noted that those involved in the first wave of the rollout could include between 16,500 and 20,000 vehicles total, and that all of those in the initial wave are subject to strict non-disclosure agreements at the risk of termination or removal from the FSD beta program.

FSD beta v12 transitions the autosteer on city streets system to a single stack end-to-end neural network that is trained on millions of video clips, eliminating the need for over 300,000 lines of human-written C++ code. CEO Elon Musk demonstrated an early build of FSD v12 in a live-stream in August, and he confirmed late last month that the version was already rolling out to some employees. Musk has also said that the FSD v12 would lose the 'beta' distinction, though it’s not yet clear if this will be the case or not, and the screenshot shared by TeslaScope still includes the word.

The rollout of Full Self-Driving (Beta) V12.1 to Wave1 marks a major milestone in the development of the Autopilot system, and brings Tesla one step closer to its goal of a fully self-driving vehicle. It is also likely to help Tesla maintain their position as the leader in autonomous technology. With the advancements that they have made in just 8 years of development, one can only imagine what the future holds for Tesla's Autopilot system.