Tesla FSD 12.5 Shows Massive Improvement, Testers Say

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Years in the past, I obtained overvalued by early Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) testers giving the impression that FSD was practically robotaxi succesful. I obtained FSD, which I had purchased years prior, activated a few 12 months later and found it was truly horrible and far worse than the earlier Autopilot options I had gotten accustomed to utilizing. I noticed the same factor play out with FSD updates a number of instances after that. So, I attempt to not get optimistic about FSD updates till I expertise them for myself.

That stated, model 12.3 of Tesla FSD was an enormous step ahead and it was lastly behaving how I anticipated it might once I first obtained it. It’s been a months since I obtained version 12.3 and have been ready for the subsequent variations, which Elon Musk stated could be significantly better. Some others have gotten as much as model 12.5 now, although, and I’ve seeing some individuals rave about it. A tweet I noticed final evening is what obtained me to cowl this replace earlier than I truly get and expertise it myself. Right here’s the tweet:

Elon arguably fulfilled all his guarantees.

1. v12.5.1.3 is ~14x higher total and ~4x safer than v12.3.6

2. This month, FSD 12.5.X already obtained ~1.4x higher total and ~2x safer pic.twitter.com/ip93swwg1K

— Raines (@raines1220) August 19, 2024

An important, impartial and down to earth Tesla fan responded with a logical query: “What is the source of this data?” The reply: “The community tracker. Unlike others, I got my data from the ‘tester view’ and compared how the experience changes within the same groups of testers (so it doesn’t matter whether they prefer to disengage more or less).”

Extra particulars are additionally offered by one other account monitoring the information:

That is my reply to the unique put up concerning hand chosen testers. U can get after the identical by filtering for testers with over 500-1k miles on the tester view tab https://t.co/SO3uZ0buME

— Elias Martinez (@eliasmrtnz1) August 19, 2024

So, that’s the deal. The info isn’t essentially the most expansive and strong (Tesla has that), but it surely’s clearly implying actual progress. Nonetheless, the information is just too restricted for now to make sturdy conclusions from it. Right here’s one more note from that poster 7 hours in the past: “the only problem with this, is that the sample size becomes very small. Only a few testers (~12) had hw4 and were reporting data prior to 12.5. 12.5.x still hasn’t gone wide, so we need to look at this again once we get more testers on this version.”

Concerning Tesla’s knowledge, Musk tweeted in mid-Might that there could be an roughly 5–10× enchancment in miles per intervention with model 12.4 in comparison with model 12.3, and model 12.5 could be out in late June.

A few month in the past, I additionally noticed an extended anecdote from one consumer who could be very pleased with the replace:

First 10 mile drive on FSD V12.5.

I wish to include myself, as a result of I’ve used prior variations which have delivered excellent experiences after which all of a sudden appeared to worsen, however right here goes…

That was by an extended shot essentially the most unbelievable FSD expertise I’ve ever had, and the…

— Mike P (@mikepat711) July 24, 2024

We’ve obtained yet one more put up from one other early tester, replying to that preliminary put up above with the graph:

My spouse who vouched that she would “never ever activate FSD” is now utilizing FSD 12.5.3 for greater than 90% of all her drives.

No quantity of graphs or knowledge can seize the success of FSD when it efficiently passes a “non-tech spouse approval test”.

Purchase TSLA!! pic.twitter.com/ghcFXcFhhs

— Vekay (@rajuvamsi007) August 19, 2024

Many people are fairly accustomed to the “wife test” and might relate to and perceive what this implies. In fact, it’s one case and one individual’s claims. Nevertheless it’s one other signal that 12.5 is certainly significantly better.

Lastly, the next is a observe from a Tesla FSD consumer and Tesla Insurance coverage subscriber who says that FSD has helped him to get cheaper and cheaper insurance coverage from Tesla:

@Tesla insurance coverage is paying for many or all the month-to-month value of FSD in my case.

I began at $163/mo for a MX plaid driving rating of 90. FSD Supervised 12.5.x has elevated my driving rating to 100 over just some months and lowered my premiums by about $70… 🤯 pic.twitter.com/TozLKhDSq1

— Jeff Lutz 🔋 (@thejefflutz) August 19, 2024

That’s interesting — little question about it. that, I certain would like to strive Tesla Insurance coverage for my 2019 Tesla Mannequin 3 SR+ with FSD right here in Florida.