He posted a video from the last test
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was testing a Model S equipped with the Full Self-Driving V12 system a couple of days ago live on X (Twitter). The video showed how far the brand has come in developing its AI-controlled autopilot.
Musk was at the controls of the Model S recording video, accompanied by Ashok Elluswami, head of the Autopilot software team. An electric sedan drove them through the streets of Palo Alto on a sunny day at rush hour.
According to Musk, Tesla’s FSD V12 works like a human brain, using neural networks and eyes (cameras). The system is trained using video from millions of Tesla vehicles already cruising the streets around the world and mimics human drivers.
The eyes of the system are eight cameras, with a frame rate of 36 fps. The modules could theoretically run at 50 frames per second, Musk said, but the company imposed a software cap, likely to reduce the amount of data. He also mentioned that test drives are being held in various countries including New Zealand, Thailand, Norway and Japan.
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You will definitely need a lot of training data to make this work. You need millions of dollars or training equipment. And you need to run the equipment to train the neural network. It is not easy. The amazing thing is that there is not a single line of code here.
At one of the roundabouts, the Model S waited for two approaching cars to pass and resumed traffic when the roundabout cleared. It also turned out that the algorithm adheres to the lane, recognizes pedestrians and cyclists, and makes active decisions.
Musk also explained how V12 differs from V11: “There is not a single line in the code that says that there is a workaround that we have in the explicit control stack in version 11. Version 11 contains over 300,000 lines of C++, and in Version 12 is almost non-existent.”
Not everything was perfect. At one intersection, the Model S slowed down at a stop sign instead of coming to a complete stop. However, according to Elluswami, who cites data analyzed by Tesla, only 0.5% of people actually stop at stop signs.
At one point, the car nearly ran a red light before Musk intervened, indicating that the FSD V12 still needs more training.
