Tesla’s prepping to release Full Self-Driving Beta version 11.3 by testing it within its employee pool. The update contains some big changes along with small touches meant to improve the experience of Full Self-Driving. Here’s what to look for when version 11.3 finally hits the public beta testing pool.
Users will almost immediately notice the change to visualizations on the driver information display. Gone are the red road edges in favor of light grey ones accompanied by a wider vehicle path indicator. In addition, we can expect visual cues to now to be uniform across city streets and highways.
That’s because version 11.3 unifies Full Self-Driving tech with highway driving for the first time. Until now, highway driving had been left up to a legacy system that would mainly focus on lane-specific maneuvers.
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Moreover, users will now have the opportunity to leave Tesla a voice memo when something goes awry with Full Self-Driving. Upon any intervention from the driver, they’ll have the option to “send an anonymous voice message describing your experience to help improve autopilot.”
In addition, it improves lane changes by including better gap selection and by integrating information about navigation and speed-based lane changes. Tesla says that it’s also added a long-range highway lane network to enable cars to respond earlier to blocked lanes and high-curvature roads.
One feature that’s sure to gather interest is the improved automatic emergency braking. Now, a Tesla with Full Self-Driving will respond with AEB to vehicles that cross its path including in situations where other vehicles run a red light or “steal the right of way.” The automaker says that replay data of such collisions suggests that 49% would’ve been avoided with this new software.
The entire list of features coming with Full Self-Driving 11.3 (software version 2022.45.5) was first spotted by Not A Tesla App. They note that after numerous delays this updated version of FSD could pop up at any time. No word yet on whether or not it’ll have whatever changes are required to satisfy the recall imposed by the NHTSA recently.