Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) Supervised Explained

Tesla is rolling out full self-driving (FSD) version 12 and it is now using the word “Supervised” instead of “Beta”. The change is quite distinctive and reflects a new direction for automatic driving.

FSD Supervised

FSD enables your Tesla to drive automatically in traffic and turn the vehicle left or right. It can switch lanes and follow routes based on navigation. It brings stop sign control and slows the vehicle to a stop-on approach.

Amid these advantages, FSD requires active drive supervision and it doesn’t make the vehicle autonomous. The driver needs to keep hands on or near the wheel to take control whenever required.

This is all “Supervised” Tesla FSD is about, It needs your active attention while the car drives itself.

No Longer Beta?

In March, Tesla distributed a new FSD software update under the beta branch to reflect that the software is still under development.

FSD 12 is the latest version of this automatic driving technology. Testers say that v12’s driving is smoother and more humanlike than v11.

Tesla has released numerous builds with improvements for its driving capability since December 2023. These updates also fixed bugs and optimized its features.

FSD V12 appears to be more stable than the past versions. Therefore, Tesla is giving away a 30-day trial to all owners across North America to test its driving capability.

This was the first time the company released builds with “Tesla FSD Supervised”. That clears its intent to move away from Beta, at least for the time being. It also rolled out FSD (Supervised) v12.3.3 within a few days after releasing FSD Beta v12.3.2.1.

Tesla FSD Trial email to a Tesla owner in Canada (Image Credit: X/Twitter)

In comparison, Supervised improves transparency than Beta. It also clarifies the user about the system’s capability which remains under development.

Unsupervised FSD:

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla said “Supervised FSD is vastly safer than human driving” in November last year while interacting on social media site X, formerly Twitter.

The chief also predicted that “Unsupervised FSD” will lead the system in the future. The end-to-end neural nets in version 12 will surpass human safety even when unsupervised he added.

Tesla engineers and the AI team are working on more improvements for version 12. It is training FSD models with millions of driving video clips to refine the driving. But the company has shared no details about the unsupervised FSD rollout which could make the car autonomous.