Testing Tesla FSD Supervised. Photo by CleanTechnica.
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One of the gripes of early Tesla “Full Self Driving” adopters (like me) is we were told that our cars would have all of the hardware necessary for true full self driving — the kind where you can go to sleep or watch a movie while the car drives. Recently, Tesla Technoking Elon Musk conceded that the hardware on cars like mine really wasn’t going to cut it. The company is now planning to offer hardware retrofits to such cars … at some point.
In the meantime, though, Tesla software engineers are working on trying to give us Full Self Driving (FSD) that’s something like what drivers with Tesla’s latest hardware have. That is being called “Full Self-Driving V14 Lite.” However, repeating what I basically already said above, Musk recently said they they’ve determined this really isn’t going to ever be hands-off, eyes-off self driving. Still, better than what we have been using! That’s the idea anyway.
The news this week is that Full Self-Driving V14 Lite has started rolling out to these older Teslas. (I have not received an opportunity to update yet.) Note that this older self-driving hardware is referred to as “Hardware 3,” whereas what newer Teslas have is “Hardware 4,” which includes more cameras, better cameras, and better computers, among other things. The following are the full release notes for FSD V14 Lite:
