Chuck Cook has drone video of Tesla FSD 12.5 supervised making many perfect unprotected left turns. Tesla FSD is the Full Self Driving product which is a driver assist system the human driver must supervise the driving system. As of Tesla FSD F12.3.6, human drivers will not need to touch the steering wheel.
Chuck Cook is famous in the Tesla community for his thorough testing of previous versions of Tesla FSD.
This videos shows several Tesla test cars using FSD 12.5 to make the difficult turns.
Tesla FSD 12.5 has not been released to the public but it will likely go to other Tesla employees on the weekend and could go to the first wave of the public next week.
I discuss with Herbert Ong how Tesla FSD 12.5 could change everything.
The chinese robotaxi companies and Waymo in the US have Lidar, sensor and hypermap dependent systems. This is why they are only using a few hundred to a thousand vehicles in small geofenced areas. The Chinese robotaxi companies want to rapidly scale to profitable service with tens of thousands to millions of vehicles by 2030. IF Tesla FSD 12.5 and later versions of Tesla full self driving solve driving then scaling to 100,000 vehicles next year and a million vehicles the year after can be done. This would be with human safety drivers and remote drivers until regulators are satisfied with the safety data.
However, the robotaxi partners would need to buy many Tesla vehicles to get market share and awareness in each city and they would need to work out all of the operational, charging and other issues of a full Uber-Didi ridehailing service.
Here are some of my other videos that explain how vastly improved automated driving changes the game with each tripling of miles per intervention.
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