Skeptical of FSD beta? You MUST watch this tricky drive on the new v11.3.1

Paul Pallaghy, PhD
5 min readMar 16, 2023

Tesla FSD will definitely be approved within a year or two. IMO.

Here’s why.

Link is at the BOTTOM of this page . .

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.

  1. This tricky drive is very impressive (as are numerous others) performing very human-like: smoothly, safely, smartly, pro-actively, confidently and virtually intervention-free
  2. v11.3.1 is the very first partly public release of the newly architected version 11 and thus open to significant iteration
  3. The software is now essentially feature complete
  4. 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)
  5. 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

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Paul Pallaghy, PhD

PhD Physicist / AI engineer / Biophysicist / Futurist into global good, AI, startups, EVs, green tech, space, biomed | Founder Pretzel Technologies Melbourne AU