Tesla releases FSD 12 update to employees. But is it the “real” autonomous driving promised?

How many times have we heard promises to Musk that the Full Self-Driving (FSD) was coming soon? Several times, but a few months ago the promise became that the “true” FSD (therefore a truly complete autonomous driving) would have arrived by the end of the year, and for this reason it would have deserved an update with dedicated numbering, therefore the version 12 (do you know how assisted driving works?).

Well, now the FSD v12 it’s finally here, and Tesla has started releasing it to the first testers, namely the company’s employees. But it will be a guide truly autonomous?

Let’s start right away by saying that this update is really important, as the car will not decide the actions to be undertaken based on one programmed scenario in the code (hard codedit is said in English), but thanks to neural networks.

This result is only the pinnacle of a process strongly desired by Musk and begun some time ago with the removal of radars from Teslas to launch into what has been called Tesla Vision.

That is, the capacity of computer to recognize the situations he encounters exclusively thanks to cameras, just like a human being would do, and not to radar, a solution adopted by all the other market players,

The extremely risky move was undertaken thanks to the enormous amount of data collected from all Tesla in the world, and used for training artificial intelligence.

In recent years, the American electric car manufacturer has indeed launched a great beta testing (in the United States), allowing users to try the autonomous driving functionality of the software (at a high price, more than $10,000which many also paid years ago on trust) while specifying that it was not a guide “Truly” autonomous, as it always had to be maintained check of the vehicle (which would make it level 2 autonomous driving, i.e. assisted driving).

The problem is that some users have left dazzle from the proclamations of fully autonomous driving, “forgetting” or ignoring warnings.

Which has resulted in accidents and even lawsuits from some regulatory bodies Americans, as the company had advertised the function otherwise.

But now that it has arrived the awaited update to the first testers? Tesla will take on its own responsibility and will it define its fully self-driving program (really)?

First of all, there is still no regulation in this sense, as to drive autonomously, Teslas would need a particular license currently granted only in some states to some companies such as Google and Waymo. But let’s leave the legal issue aside for a moment.

The thing is, Tesla hasn’t mentioned that the FSD v12 has the fully autonomous driving, nor Musk (which says a lot). And if we think that this test for employees generally precedes the release to users (in turn beta testers) shortly, this does not leave many hopes in this sense.

So it could very well be that the FSD v12 has the ability to drive independentlybut Tesla continues to say it must maintain control of the vehicle, which is equivalent to saying that it is not hired no liability about the software.

That’s the point. Tesla does not seem to have any intention, beyond the proclamations, to carry out the big step forward promised, just as they were not presented data to the regulatory authorities to have level 3 autonomous driving approved, much less 4 or 5. Data about which the company has never been particularly transparent.

At the moment, therefore, users will continue to act as a testereven if they were to receive the FSD v12 before the end of the year. And at this point, that the FSD v12 whether it is truly autonomous driving or not makes perhaps little difference.