Over the years Elon Musk has made broad predictions on the capabilities of the Full Self Driving (FSD) capabilities. There have been sparks of improvements here and there but there hasn’t been any large-scale initiative launched by Tesla to allow the average Tesla driver to implement this technology.
Reports are now coming out Tesla will soon be giving drivers these capabilities on a massive scale. Elon Musk tweeted Monday that they are planning to give customers a taste of FSD technology throughout North America
Despite its name, FSD does not allow a car to drive itself fully. The newest version of the beta software automates some driving tasks on both highways and city streets, but it still requires the driver to stay alert and take over control of the vehicle at any time.
Musk never went into details as to when it will be available beyond the borders of North America. Some analysts are looking at this as a clever trick in order to get additional data from clients dirt cheap which can then be used to improve the deep neural networks that power FSD which is still in its initial stages.
Training these systems is data intensive and reality is very complex, Musk recently released a tweet that can attest to this point.
Given the recent improvements in AI across the entire spectrum of the industry, Tesla will probably integrate some of these technologies into their overall capabilities of FSD.
Worldwide access to FSD will take sometime due to regulation and other factors such as complexity within a particular environment. These systems are not perfect as they are probabilistic and statistical models at its core which sometimes gives strange results.
