This morning Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla is releasing FSD v12.4.1 to employees today.
FSD v12.4 was released to employees on May 20th and was expected to go out to Tesla owners the following week. However, it looks like Tesla needed to fix some issues before rolling out the update publicly.
Improvements in FSD v12.4
FSD v12.4 is expected to be a vast improvement over the current version of 12.3.6. According to Musk, it's expected to include:
Improve comfort by reducing hard braking and acceleration
Retrained models
Reduced interventions by a scale of 5-10x
According to the release notes, there will also be an improved strike system in FSD v12.4. Tesla will start removing a strike for every week that you go without gaining any new strikes.
If you reach five strikes (or three with vehicles without a cabin camera), then you'll still be suspended for a week.
Improved Interventions
Musk previously said that FSD v12.4 will see a big decrease in interventions with Tesla’s estimates being a reduction of 5-10x. In his post today, he talked a little bit about FSD v12.5 and v12.6, saying that it’s getting to the point where interventions may be more than a year apart.
Musk also said that the improvements in v12.4.1 are so big that it should arguably be called v13. Although Musk is known for hyping FSD releases, the list of improvements above does indicate a massive release.
Who's Eligible to Receive FSD v12.4.1
There's a lot of confusion and frustration right now around Tesla branches.
Unfortunately, FSD v12.4 is update 2024.9.5, which means that only users on 2024.8.x and below would be eligible to receive this update. This is why if you're on update 2024.8.9 or 2024.3.25, you haven't been updated to the Spring Update (2024.14). Tesla wants to make sure you are eligible for FSD's latest release.
Since Tesla isn't updating FSD owners in the US and Canada to 2024.14, we expect FSD v12.4.1 to still be based on the 2024.9 branch. So unfortunately it appears that FSD users will have to wait a bit longer for Tesla's beautiful redesign in update 2024.14.
Updated Release Date
Musk also provided a new estimate for the release of FSD v12.4.1 to customers. He stated that if all goes well with the employee release today and during testing the update will start rolling out in a limited fashion to customers this coming weekend. This could mean that we just have to wait a few more days until a lucky few start receiving the latest FSD improvements.
