Elon Musk says the Tesla FSD Beta 9.2 software is not great

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Monday that the latest version of the company’s experimental driver assistance software, FSD Beta 9.2, “isn’t really great” on Twitter.

Specifically, Musk wrote:

“FSD Beta 9.2 isn’t really a good imo, but the autopilot / AI team is concentrating on improving as fast as possible. We’re trying to have a single stack for both highway and city streets. but requires massive NN recycling “.

The company sells a full-capacity (FSD) capacity package for $ 10,000 or $ 199 a month in the US. This premium driver assistance system does not make Tesla electric vehicles safe for use without an attentive driver behind the wheel.

FSD Beta is only available to some drivers who had previously purchased FSD and Tesla employees. The beta version features new or recently revised functionality that is added to the car driver’s assistance features.

Drivers often agree to keep their experiences private, although some public users of the beta version of FSD are allowed to post videos on social media showing and criticizing the latest features they have tested on U.S. roads.

Regulators may one day decide to ban vehicle testing with non-professional drivers trained on public roads. But for now, no regulation interferes with Tesla’s ability to turn its customers and everyone with whom it shares the road into guinea pigs.

Musk’s critical tweet on Monday came just days after promoting Tesla’s skill with autonomous systems and components for them at an event called Tesla AI Day.

At this event, last week, Thursday, Tesla showed off a custom chip to train artificial intelligence networks in data centers. The chips are intended to train models to automatically identify various obstacles that appear on the road in video feeds recorded by the cameras of Tesla vehicles.

Among other things, the FSD is sold today with the promise of enabling a Tesla vehicle to automatically change lanes, navigate the freeway, move to a parking spot, or exit one and drive for a short distance to the driver’s side at a slow pace. without anyone behind the wheel.

Tesla says that by the end of the year FSD will also include the ability to automatically drive through city streets, a feature with a lot of delay. FSD Beta has included the automatic addressing feature on city streets, albeit imperfect and incomplete.

Musk’s critical tweet also follows the launch of a formal investigation into Tesla’s autopilot system by federal vehicle safety authorities in the U.S. last week.

Autopilot is the basic version of Tesla’s driver assistance system and is currently a standard part of their cars.

Tesla autopilot vehicles, or simply traffic-controlled traffic-minded vehicles, crashed into first-aid vehicles at least 11 times in the U.S., NHTSA found, leaving at least 17 injured and 1 dead. This prompted formal investigation into whether the autopilot contains safety defects that NHTSA may require Tesla to change.

Also, late last week, newly appointed NTSB president Jennifer Homendy said in an interview with Bloomberg, “Whether it’s Tesla or anyone else, it’s up to these manufacturers to be honest about what does and does not do its technology “.