Tesla FSD Examination
Is this a Proxy for Full Self Driving?
2024/08/21
- Summary
- Initial FSD Impressions
- Tesla's New Autopark Update
- Improved Driver Monitoring & Handsfree Operation!
- What Does Tesla FSD Become?
- Summary (Conclusion)
Summary
About This Report
This report was written by VSI Labs (VSI) for MarkLines' portal users. VSI is a technology research company that provides industry with deep insight and analysis on the enabling technologies used for active safety and automated driving.
Introduction
In early April 2024, after a regular software update, our 2024 Tesla Model Y displayed this message on its screen: “FSD (supervised) v12 upgrades city-street driving to a single end-to-end neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing 300k lines of explicit C++ code.”
What this means is Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system has transitioned from relying on traditional, hand-coded rules (C++ code) to using a single neural network for city-street driving. This neural network has learned from extensive video data comparing inputs vs. outputs and now directly controls the vehicle's behavior. The entire codebase is more AI-driven and less dependent on manual programming.
The purpose of this Tech Brief is to dig deeper into Tesla FSD Supervised and provide our impressions of this latest FSD release. We will also explore the impact of FSD in terms of becoming a viable robotaxi platform and a licensable asset that could potentially be used by other OEMs.
 |
| Tesla vehicle used by VSI for report (Source: VSI-Labs) |
According to Tesla Website, “Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can drive your Tesla vehicle almost anywhere. It will make lane changes, select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other vehicles and objects and make left and right turns. When using Full Self-Driving (Supervised), you and anyone you authorize must use additional caution and remain attentive. It does not make your vehicle autonomous. Do not become complacent.” Here are the features of Autopilot as presented on the Tesla Web Site:
- Navigate on Autopilot: Actively guides your vehicle from a highway’s on-ramp to off-ramp, including suggesting lane changes, navigating interchanges, automatically engaging the turn signal and taking the correct exit.
- Auto Lane Change: Assists in moving to an adjacent lane on the highway when Autosteer is engaged. (user can select from passive to assertive behavior)
- Autopark: Helps automatically parallel or perpendicular park your vehicle, with a single touch.
- Summon: Moves your vehicle in and out of a tight space using the mobile app or key.
- Smart Summon: Your vehicle will navigate more complex environments and parking spaces, maneuvering around objects as necessary to come find you in a parking lot.
- Autosteer on City Streets: Traffic and Stop Sign Control: Identifies stop signs and traffic lights and automatically slows your vehicle to a stop on approach.
Material from: Mayura Gunarathne, [Technology Brief] Tesla FSD Examination: Is this a Proxy for Full Self Driving? [June 18, 2024] [the websites of VSI Labs AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS PORTAL] reproduced with permission of VSI Labs.
VSI Labs reports:
California DMV Disengagement Report 2023: Nine Years of Trend Data (Apr. 2024)
The Future of Google in the Car: ADAS, HD Maps, & SDVs! (Nov. 2023)
Robotaxi Deployments Grow Despite Negative Setbacks (Aug. 2023)
Software-Defined Vehicles: Impact on ADAS and AVs (Apr. 2023)
Tesla AI Day 2021: FSD Autopilot Progressing Under the Hood (Oct. 2021)
Free membership registration allows you to read the rest of the article for a limited time.
