Tesla has released yet another new version of Full Self-Driving (FSD). As has been the trend with recent updates, this one is limited to cars with Hardware 4 (HW4/AI4) computers for now, and brings with a change to highway driving, new speed profiles, and more.
After months of stagnation, Tesla’s Autopilot team has been releasing FSD updates on a rapid schedule over the last few weeks. With the differentiation in versions between cars with HW4/AI4 and those with HW3/AI3 computers, and for Cybertruck and non-Cybertruck vehicles, it has been a little bit difficult to keep up with the pace of progress and all the new versions.
Until now the most up to date version of FSD was actually on the Cybertruck, which only received FSD for the first time last month. Included in that release (v12.5.5) was an update to highway driving, moving the highway stack to Tesla’s new end-to-end neural net that has been powering city streets driving in FSD since v12.3.
A few weeks later and now the end-to-end highway stack is available to non-Cybertruck vehicles with the release of software update 2024.32.30 on Monday night. According to the release notes, this update includes FSD v12.5.6, which also includes a few other notable new features and updates.
One of those is new speed profiles. You can now pick between ‘Chill,’ ‘Standard,’ and ‘Hurry.’ Here is how Tesla describes them in the menu options.
- Chill – Drives in slower lanes with minimal lane changes
- Standard – Drives at normal speed, adjusts with traffic
- Hurry – Drives faster with more frequent lane changes
Also included with the new speed profiles is an update to Speed Offset, which has been renamed to Max Speed Offset. This option gives users the ability to decide how far above the speed limit you want FSD to drive to match the flow of traffic. You can set this in 5% increments, up to as much as +40%.
Along with the changes to profiles, Tesla says in the release notes that FSD v12.5.6 has earlier and more natural lane changes. This will hopefully fix a frequent complaint among FSD users that lane changes often occur too late.
As noted above, this update is limited to non-Cybertruck Tesla vehicles that have the latest HW4/AI4 self-driving computers. It is also still in a limited release to a smaller group of testers, but if all goes well we should see a wider release to more HW4/AI4 cars later this week, and then a release to HW3/AI3 cars a few weeks after that.
Here are the full 2024.32.30 (FSD v12.5.6) release notes.
Our HW4 Model Y is currently downloading FSD 12.5.6!
— Dirty Tesla (@DirtyTesLa) October 8, 2024
This includes a slew of new changes including end to end on highway, earlier and more natural lane changes, updated driver profiles and auto set speed has been changed to Max Speed pic.twitter.com/XZMnj4JObR
