Skeptical of FSD beta? You MUST watch this tricky drive on the new v11.3.1
5 min readMar 16, 2023
Tesla FSD will definitely be approved within a year or two. IMO.
Here’s why.
Why regulatory approval soon?
This extensive (but often sped-up) drive demonstrates the new FSD beta 11.3.1 of March 2023 handling numerous ambiguous situations beautifully and the drive only required a single intervention due to a single (rare, first time I’ve seen it) ‘system error’.
But here’s why this is so exciting.
- This tricky drive is very impressive (as are numerous others) performing very human-like: smoothly, safely, smartly, pro-actively, confidently and virtually intervention-free
- v11.3.1 is the very first partly public release of the newly architected version 11 and thus open to significant iteration
- The software is now essentially feature complete
- Now the Tesla FSD team can finally purely focus on accuracy and safety and intervention-free drives heading towards Lvl 4 regulatory approval (rather than getting new features working at all)
- AVs (autonomous vehicles) do not need to be perfect: as long as (1) avoidable crashes and human harm are avoided at high fidelity & (2) AVs are not a pest to other vehicles