Tesla to Release “Limited FSD Beta” Next Week

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the company’s ‘Full Self-Driving Beta’ will be released to some customers as early as next week.

Elon Musk has been very vocal in the past few months about Tesla’s continued work on its new core change to Tesla Autopilot calling it a “significant foundational rewrite.” A rewrite that is expected to overall performance and allow for a faster release of new features. Musk even went as far as to call the rewrite a “quantum leap” in August.

The FSD improvement will come as a quantum leap, because it’s a fundamental architectural rewrite, not an incremental tweak. I drive the bleeding edge alpha build in my car personally. Almost at zero interventions between home & work. Limited public release in 6 to 10 weeks.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 14, 2020

Shortly after the CEO’s statements about the  fundamental architectural rewrite, it was delayed for an additional “2 to 4 weeks.” Fast forward to current day, Musk said we should expect the “limited FSD beta” to be released next week in a response to CleanTechnica via Twitter:

Limited FSD beta releasing on Tuesday next week, as promised. This will, at first, be limited to a small number of people who are expert & careful drivers.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2020

Musk did not reveal anymore details regarding the upcoming software update, but it is expected to be released to the public come December, should Tesla avoid anymore delays.

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