Version 14 of Tesla‘s Full Self Driving (FSD) is now scheduled to be deployed “by the end of the year,” the chief executive Elon Musk said in a new interview aired Tuesday.
Previously scheduled to start being rolled out later this month, the CEO updated the timeline, delaying it by about 2-3 months.
On August 21, Musk had written on X a list of upcoming main events across his companies, where it was included that the V14 would be released “also next month.”
Speaking at the ‘All-In Summit’, the CEO reaffirmed that “Version 14 will be the biggest upgrade in Tesla software since version 12,” as the EV maker is “increasing the parameter count by an order of magnitude.”
“There’s a lot of reinforcement learning that’s been used,” Musk explained. “You can think of AI as a way of compressing reality, and some of those compression steps were too lossy, and we addressed the lossiness in the compression steps.”
“These are all software updates that will go out, so just over the air (OTA) updates. Your car is sentient by the end of the year,” he concluded.
In early August, the chief executive had already teased major improvements coming with the V14. “Once we confirm real-world safety of FSD 14, which we think will be amazing, the car will nag you much less,” Musk wrote on X in August.
Later in the month, the CEO commented on a clip of William Blair’s analyst Jed Dorsheimer, who praised the Robotaxi experience on CNBC after testing it, saying that the analyst experienced the version 13 of the software — while teasing a major update with the launch of V14.
“(He was just on version 13). Version 14 of Tesla self-driving feels sentient,” the chief executive wrote on X, adding that it is “the second biggest update to Tesla AI/Autopilot ever after V12. It feels alive.”
In a reply on X, he added that “there are so many rare situations irl [in real life] that even V14, while capable of being much safer than the average human driver, will take a few months to debug post release.”
In August, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA launched an investigation on Tesla regarding potential delays in reporting vehicle crashes that involve advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) or self-driving vehicles.
Tesla‘s FSD is available for purchase in the United States, with a single payment of $8,000, or as a monthly subscription of $99.
The system is pending regulatory approval in Europe with the company expecting the Dutch market to be one of the first to allow the usage of the technology.
