Tesla team members share their thoughts on FSD V13 improvements

The Tesla AI team has successfully released the V13 Fully Autonomous Driving (FSD) to limited external customers by the end of November. During the release of the long-awaited update, a number of Tesla employees shared information about the latest FSD (Supervised) build.

The FSD Release Notes (Supervised) V13 show that the update contains several key improvements over previous iterations. While the V13 build appears to be optimized for AI4 cars at the moment, the improvements in the update are significant, as noted by Tesla’s Autopilot engineer Arek Sredzkiwho noted that the system’s end-to-end network now allows vehicles to transport their passengers on a parking-to-parking (P2P) basis.

E2E now takes you P2P (Park 2 Park) https://t.co/E7bMljlmE3

— Arek Sredzki (@ArekSredzki) November 30, 2024

This is a significant upgrade to FSD (Supervised) V13 and is what actually makes Full Self-Driving (Supervised) the most advanced driver assistance package available to consumers today. After all, even Tesla’s staunchest critic would be hard-pressed to argue with the legitimacy of a system that shuttles vehicles from fleet to fleet.

Member of the Tesla AI team Yun-ta Tsai also noted that FSD V13, “probably one of the biggest rewrites in years since we started (on) stepping down the ‘photon counting’ path 4 years ago.” He also emphasized that FSD (Supervised) V13 is the culmination of collaboration between Tesla’s many teams, ranging from data, vision, compiler, system, firmware, UI, QA, PM and others.

Crazy product push the week of my birthday.

We’ve re-engineered the entire system to dramatically simplify the pipeline – directing photons for control – while providing much more functionality within the same unified framework.

This is probably one of the biggest correspondences in years that we… https://t.co/M0pr2KzcHv

— Yun-Ta Tsai (@YunTaTsai1) November 30, 2024

In a follow-up message, Tsai clarified that FSD (Supervised) V13 is a complete correspondence. And when asked if the transition between FSD V12 and V13 is more significant compared to the transition from FSD V11 to V12, a member of the Tesla AI team pointed out that the V13 build is quite similar to SpaceX’s Raptor Engine V3 for Starship. “If we can visualize the FSD v13, it will look very similar to the Raptor v3. Very clean,” Tesla AI team member wrote in the post on X.

For context, here are the release notes for FSD (Supervised) V13 shared by Ashok EluswamiVice President of Artificial Intelligence Software at Tesla.