TECH - Tesla FSD Training Hits A Snag: Elon Musk Says New Version Rollout Delayed Due To Driving Smoothness Issues | Benzinga
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that it delayed rolling out the new version of its full self-driving (FSD) advanced driver-assistance technology owing to issues with driving smoothness.
What Happened: “Sorry for the delay,” Musk wrote in response to a Tesla enthusiast who noted that the new version of the technology, namely v12.4.2, has started to roll out to employees.
The company trained the new version too much on interventions and not enough on normal driving, leading to a loss of driving smoothness, the CEO said. “It's like a doctor training too much on patients in the emergency room vs training on preventative care,” he wrote.
“Our next-gen AI model after this has a lot of promise: ~5X increase in parameter count, which is very difficult to achieve without upgrading the vehicle inference computer,” he ...