Tesla FSD hits 1.6 billion cumulative miles

Tesla has achieved 1.6 billion cumulative miles of driving for the Full Self Driving (FSD) supervised version. The latest changes and speed of FSD expansion are enabling the EV maker to achieve new numbers.

It took Tesla three years to achieve less than 1 billion miles until late last year. However, version 12 has helped the company to skyrocket this figure in the first half of 2024 and achieved 600 million miles. These numbers are way too much compared to the previous FSD versions.

FSD is a self-driving technology that enables Tesla cars to navigate on the road and in complicated traffic using onboard cameras and AI technologies. It can detect any on-road hazard and react in real time.

Version 12 takes this tech two steps further by removing a large chunk of manual code and using neural networks to train the system in real time. Over the past six months, Tesla has completely revamped the FSD architecture and it’s working on advanced algorithms to make the training efficient.

FSD 12 users say the driving experience has improved in comparison to version 11. Aspects include acceleration, pause, driving intelligence, navigation, steering, and monitoring systems. Although Tesla’s self-driving tech has a long journey to become fully autonomous, supervised driving is still on top in terms of real-world driving miles count.

Along with this information, Tesla has shared its Q2 2024 vehicle safety report.

The company has reported about 7 million miles before an accident occurred while using autopilot. Around 1.5 million miles before an accident occurred without autopilot. On average, there’s one accident below every 1 million miles in the US.

“In the 2nd quarter, we recorded one crash for every 6.88 million miles driven in which drivers were using Autopilot technology. For drivers who were not using Autopilot technology, we recorded one crash for every 1.45 million miles driven. By comparison, the most recent data available from NHTSA and FHWA (from 2022) shows that in the United States, there was an automobile crash approximately every 670,000 miles.” wrote Tesla while publishing these new figures.