Tesla's Latest Update Enhances Smart Summon, FSD, and Introduces Hands-Free Frunk

December 6, 2024
Tesla's Latest Update Enhances Smart Summon, FSD, and Introduces Hands-Free Frunk
  • The latest update to Tesla's Actually Smart Summon (ASS) feature includes enhancements for high-speed road maneuvers and refined behavior for manual car movement via the app.

  • ASS allows vehicles to autonomously navigate to a chosen location or return to the user, emphasizing the need for driver supervision during its use.

  • Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities have been upgraded, enabling vehicles to perform various driving tasks like lane changes and navigation under driver supervision, while still requiring attentiveness.

  • Sentry Mode has been enhanced to pulse headlights when threats are detected, indicating active recording, while navigation now highlights construction zones along routes.

  • Vehicle visualizations have been improved for smoother performance, addressing long-standing issues in the rendering engine.

  • The mobile app now notifies users when tire service is needed, simplifying the scheduling process directly through the app.

  • New features allow users to exclude their home location from automatic and hands-free trunk operations, enhancing usability.

  • FSD (Supervised) v12.5.6.4 has upgraded the driving stack to a single end-to-end neural network trained on millions of video clips, replacing over 300,000 lines of C++ code.

  • When FSD is active, the driver monitoring system utilizes a cabin camera to assess attentiveness, escalating warnings for inattentiveness.

  • Users can now opt to share sound detection data with Tesla to enhance emergency vehicle detection, ensuring privacy as the data is not linked to personal accounts.

  • The Hands-Free Frunk feature has been introduced, allowing the frunk to open automatically when approached, but it requires specific iPhone models and app versions.

  • The update includes improved lane change decisions that are earlier and more natural, along with updated speed profiles for roads with speed limits of 50 mph or higher.

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