Tesla uses expensive sensors during training time and distilling that into vision only model. Scaling hardware problems is much harder than software problems. Large amount of human data and expensive sensory data is done for each pre-training and fine-tuning.
FSD12 - important
Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 - a critical update to self-driving effort
Tesla has started releasing to employees its FSD v12 update, which is apparently critical to Tesla’s achieving its self-driving goal....
https://electrek.co/2023/11/24/tesla-releasing-employees-fsd-v12-a-critical-update-self-driving-effort/

How Elon Musk set Tesla on a new course for self-driving
Tesla's latest version of FSD had taught itself how to drive by processing billions of frames of video of how humans do it, Isaacson writes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/09/ai-for-cars-walter-isaacson-biography-of-elon-musk-excerpt.html

Elon Musk demonstrates Tesla FSD 12 in a live stream on X, not a single line of code is used to build this non-beta version of Autopilot - Tesla Oracle
Tesla CEO Elon Musk shows the capabilities of Tesla Autopilot FSD V12 in a live-stream. How it all works (neural nets, AI, programming) and the video.
https://www.teslaoracle.com/2023/08/27/elon-musk-demonstrates-tesla-fsd-12-no-code-autopilot-ai

Tesla to start offering 'Enhanced Autopilot' for roughly half the cost of FSD
As the features of Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) option have improved over time, Tesla has also increased the cost of the package. FSD was priced at $5,000 in April of 2019, and its cost has slowly increased to the current $12,000. The last price increase was in January 2022.
https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/795/tesla-to-start-offering-enhanced-autopilot-for-roughly-half-the-cost-of-fsd

Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Beta is now available to everyone in North America
Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" Beta, which has been gradually rolling out over the past couple of years, is now available to anyone who's paid for the feature in North America, CEO Elon Musk has announced. "Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen," Musk tweeted, "assuming you have bought this option."
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/24/23476570/teslas-full-self-driving-beta-release-north-america-safety-score
Elon Mode
Tesla's Hidden 'Elon Mode' Unveiled: A Sneak Peek into the Future of FSD [Video]
Explore the mystery of Tesla's hidden 'Elon Mode' discovered by well-known Tesla hacker, @GreenTheOnly, and his intriguing journey on Full Self-Driving (FSD) Be
https://www.notateslaapp.com/software-updates/upcoming-features/id/1485/tesla-s-hidden-elon-mode-unveiled-a-sneak-peek-into-the-future-of-fsd-video
![Tesla's Hidden 'Elon Mode' Unveiled: A Sneak Peek into the Future of FSD [Video]](https://www.notateslaapp.com/images/news/2022/fsd-beta-inside.jpg)
License
Tesla in discussion to license Full Self-Driving software to another automaker
Musk did not name the other company.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800972/tesla-fsd-license-car-company-driver-assist

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