Tesla CEO shares an estimated FSD 12.4 rollout date

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk said the Full Self Driving (FSD) 12.4 version rollout may rollout today. The revelation comes as FSD subscribers waiting to upgrade from the FSD 12.3 branch.

Musk suggested that Tesla will skip the FSD 12.4.0 release and send the FSD 12.4.1 release as soon as today but only for employees. However, Tesla already released FSD 12.4 internally last month with a key improvement requested by many FSD users. That version hasn’t been released for the public users.

This key capability is called Vision-based attention monitoring system to remove wheel nagging. Here’s an official description:

“When Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is enabled, the driver monitoring system now primarily relies on the cabin camera to determine driver attentiveness. This enhancement is available on vehicles equipped with a cabin camera and only when the cabin has clear and continuous visibility of the driver’s eyes (e.g., the camera is not occluded, there is sufficient cabin illumination, and the driver is looking forward at the road ahead and not wearing sunglasses, a hat with a low bring, or other objects covering the eyes).

Outside of these circumstances, the driver monitoring system will continue to rely on a combination of torque-based (steering wheel) and vision-based monitoring to detect driver attentiveness.

If the camera detects the driver to be inattentive, a warning will appear. The warning can be dismissed by the driver immediately reverting their attention back to the road ahead. Warnings will escalate depending on the nature and frequency of detected inattentiveness, with continued inattention leading to a Strikeout.

Cabin camera images do not leave the vehicle itself, which means the system cannot save or transmit information unless you enable data sharing.”

Wider release?

Tesla has been testing this build for almost 15 days and there’s no confirmation when the public build will appear. Meanwhile, the Tesla chief said FSD 12.4.1 will see a wide release by the end of this week for a limited number of testers.