Talk:Tesla Autopilot

Sonkaments reverted edit about Morgan Stanley indicating that only Tesla is an automaker making money with there autonomous software? Is that in dispute? Is there another automaker making money? Then promotes another analyst that says Tesla is last. Very bias in my opinion. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 16:01, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Autopilot is explicitly *not* autonomous software. It is a level 2 ("hands off") advanced driver-assistance system. Of course there are numerous other automakers selling cars with advanced driver-assistance systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_systems#Implementations

https://www.cars.com/articles/which-cars-have-self-driving-features-for-2020-418934/

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/11/03/repairing-advanced-safety-systems-create-conflict/

As far as true level 4 autonomous vehicles, to my knowledge the only project that has starting serving paid customers is Waymo - https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833215/waymo-self-driving-car-taxi-passenger-feedback-review Stonkaments (talk) 19:43, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

I fail to see how your comments relate to the bias editing. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 20:29, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Can you be more specific on the bias you see in the article? I was focused on the specific claim in your edits, and it seems clear to me from the sources that:

1) Tesla Autopilot is an advanced driver-assistance system, not autonomous driving software

2) there is a competitor (Waymo) that is actively monetizing their autonomous cars.

Thus the claim that Tesla is the only company “fully monetizing its autonomous driving assets at scale" seems wrong on both fronts, and doesn't seem fit for inclusion.

The Nagigant study you're referring to seems to be the most respected third-party analysis of the autonomous driving industry. There is a well-documented pattern of optimism and hype in the industry,^[1] so it's important to rely on neutral and objective sources. Sell-side analysts are frequently biased towards an overly optimistic view of the companies they cover.Stonkaments (talk) 21:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have been more clear. Instead of making money, I should have said making a profit. Waymo is losing close to a billion dollars per quarter, if my memory of readings is correct. In terms of bias editing you are only putting negative info in the lead. Without your edit there is balanced negative and positive. The negative is the earlier sentence. How do you define "autonomous driving software". It meets the definition of level 2 autonomous system. I don't think anyone should consider losing a billion dollars per quarter as “fully monetizing its autonomous driving assets at scale" or making money. Quite the opposite is true, Waymo is losing a staggering amount of money. Navigant study respected? By whom? Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 21:56, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

WP:NPOV calls for "representing fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." Navigant's studies of the autonomous driving industry have been widely cited throughout the years,^[2][3][4] and the fact that they place Tesla in last place is clearly a significant view, and worthy of inclusion.

As for the analyst's claim, as I noted above, I don't believe a sell-side analyst's opinion should be considered reliable or significant, due to their tendency to write overly optimistic notes on the companies they cover. Plus, as I also noted earlier, many other auto manufactures are also making a profit on their level 2 advanced driver-assistance systems, so the analyst's claim is false and misleading, and does not belong in the article. Stonkaments (talk) 22:33, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

The article refers to HW3 as a “Tesla designed SOC” which is of course not the case.

The HW3 was designed and produced by Samsung, though arguably Tesla had some input in the design.

It’s an SOC that uses standard ARM72 cores and standard ARM Mali GPUs.

The article gives the impression that Tesla designed the entire chip themselves, whereas in reality they picked some of Samsung/ARM’s “off the shelf” parts and combined them into an SOC.

The best comparison would be when say.... Nokia, is making a new cellphone and buys an SOC from Samsung. They come up with some specifications (price, battery life, speed) and together with Samsung pick the parts that meet the pricepoint and the particular performance needed.

There is a rather huge difference between DESIGNING an SOC (A multi billion dollar venture that takes 3-4 years) and ordering a customized version of an existing SOC, which is the case here and which the article should reflect.

A good comparison would be a fast food meal. There is a difference between peeling all the potatoes, cutting them into fries, making hamburger patties and baking buns. And going to McDonald’s and picking items off their menu, which is what Tesla did.

192.38.141.210 (talk) 13:26, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

That's a good point - do you by chance have a link to a reliable source describing the design process for HW3? Stonkaments (talk) 21:01, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

That is an inaccurate description of HW3. Every boutique chipmaker combines off the shelf parts along with custom design. The bulk of the NN processing is not done by the Arm chip, which Samsung licensed from Arm. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 01:43, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Some of the features like summons and autosteer are not listed on Tesla's web page as beta: https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot , but I now know that in the car these features are listed as beta. If I would have known that prior to my edit, I would NOT have removed the beta markers. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 01:45, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

What do think of categorizing the Safety Concerns section into HW1 and HW2? And in the future there will be a hardware 3 subsection. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 18:52, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

FSD will grow in interest. If more people are coming here to learn about FSD, should article primarily focus on that? Should article be renamed FSD? Autopilot can be about HW1+. FSD should be about HW3 or latest hardware. Article split might make sense in the future.   Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:44, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

We can have a separate article Tesla Full Self Driving, but this article should not be renamed in my opinion. These are different things, and Tesla Autopilot is very notable by itself. I think we should also make clear the distinction between basic Autopilot and FSD. --Ita140188 (talk) 03:04, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

I was also thinking about creating a new article. Should be a good idea. Mrconter1 (talk) 07:07, 28 September 2021 (UTC)

Can we remove the cleanup tag from the history section now? I have done some work on that section. If the tag needs to remain, what other work needs to be done? ReferenceMan (talk) 15:57, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Right now it is basically a collection of one-liners organized in semi-chronological order, so no I would say it isn't cleaned up. It needs to read like how a section of an encyclopedic entry normally reads, that is with well-constructed and full paragraphs that convey progressions like in Incidents section.QRep2020 (talk) 23:18, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

I have done a number of improvements, and it is now much less a collection of one-liners, although not perfect. Any further suggestions you have would be welcome.ReferenceMan (talk) 14:47, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

I should have some time tomorrow to give it a close proofread. It does look better though. QRep2020 (talk) 23:04, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

There are multiple citations to not only the Tesla website but also to Teslarati and the Tesla Motor Club message board - independent reliable third-party sources are needed. There is also a citation from the Federal Aviation Administration in the middle of the third paragraph for some reason. QRep2020 (talk) 03:57, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

 Done I believe I have resolved those issues. Please review. What other changes are necessary to remove the "cleanup" tag? ReferenceMan (talk) 15:57, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

What other changes are necessary to remove the "cleanup" tag? ReferenceMan (talk) 01:58, 5 June 2021 (UTC)

There is a reference in the text to outstanding crashes where there might or might not be a relation to the Tesla autopilot. I feel like its important to even have reference to ongoing cases, but the pure reference to an external article is not covering it sufficiently. This is also true as the list might change over time and also in terms of a near term content creation and provision ability for Wikipedia. --Alexander.stohr (talk) 08:48, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Sure, feel free to start that subsection in the new section I have created from the former Crashes subsection. I am guessing the Woodlands incident would go in this Outstanding Crashes subsection then, yes?

Should Tesla Dojo be a standalone article, or would it be better to merge here (or maybe History of Tesla, Inc.)? Your input would be appreciated; the discussion can be found at Talk:Tesla Dojo#Should this be a standalone article? Stonkaments (talk) 11:52, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Second. QRep2020 (talk) 15:51, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

The section is erroneously popular because initial report said no one was in the driver's seat. Yes it was an error. We don't need to put mistaken "autopilot use", when autopilot was not in use in article about autopilot. Can put info in Tesla Model S notable crashes. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 17:49, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

The latest update from the NTSB investigation, per the https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/ntsb-driver-seat-occupied-in-fatal-tesla-crash-in-spring-texas.html article, stated that a full investigation was still underway, one "includ[es] Tesla’s advanced driver assistance system, the postcrash fire, occupant egress, and results of the driver’s toxicological tests." Therefore, the reasonable hypothesis, as claimed by the sources regarding Autopilot being involved in this incident, has not been discredited. QRep2020 (talk) 01:58, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

Ridiculous to put crashes in this article as long as use of autopilot has not been discredited. Should only put articles in autopilot article that are about autopilot. Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 16:53, 10 December 2021 (UTC)

In this case, it has been discredited, so the section about the Woodlands, TX, crash should be removed in its entirety, because it was theorized that Autopilot was used, but that theory was later proven wrong. Unknown0124 (talk) 19:49, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

And yet Consumer Reports (known Tesla haters), believing the initial narrative that Autopilot was active during the crash, go out and egg on more people to do more of those stunts and post videos of them on places like TikTok. Unknown0124 (talk) 19:46, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

I've removed the section. As concluded by the NTSB investigation, Autopilot was not involved in this accident. Thus there's no reason to keep it in the article.

If someone wants to move the information somewhere else, the latest version of the article with the section still present is here. --Veikk0.ma 00:30, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

@QRep2020:: I see you reverted my deletion of this massive section of non-Autopilot related information. Unless there's some kind of a real argument for keeping it, I'll probably just do it again. "The section explains the situation just fine" is completely irrelevant when the situation has nothing to do with Autopilot in the first place. This article is about Autopilot, it is not a noticeboard of car accidents involving Teslas.

If this car accident really needs to be mentioned, we should dedicate maybe 1-3 sentences to it at most, just to make it clear that it wasn't Autopilot-related. We certainly don't need 6 paragraphs, 10,000 characters and an animated GIF to illustrate an event that has nothing to do with the subject matter of the article. --Veikk0.ma 19:40, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Disagree, it is fine as it stands. I presented an argument in the recent revision purpose: "There are likely users who do not know that the NTSB made this conclusion after all of the coverage, and where else on here would they learn otherwise?" Additionally, the accident got an inordinate amount of attention by the media - the subsection reflects that. QRep2020 (talk) 22:33, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

I don't see how an item of Toyota following Tesla is relevant as a rebuttal to expert analysis of the technical merits, it's a synthetic combination. --StellarNerd (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The fact about Toyota following Tesla's vision approach (as argued in the source material) is relevant to the article but was presented in the wrong way, agreed. QRep2020 (talk) 20:54, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

The language regarding the three motorcycle crashes is a bit complicated - both of the sources claim that there were three cases involving a motorcycle and a Tesla that was using Autopilot. Yes, the CNN article also includes something about Riverside police saying that the Tesla in that case did not hit the motorcycle while the rider was on it, but it does so without addressing the tension that I think ReferenceMan and Ptrnext are concerned with. Does the sentence as it stands constitute Original Research then? Or maybe there needs to be other sources included? Or can the point be rephrased somehow to dissolve the tension entirely? QRep2020 (talk) 23:48, 25 December 2022 (UTC)

I rephrased it as "multiple" crashes without mentioning a specific number. I think that's a reasonable compromise that does not contradict the references while accurately discounting the Riverside crash. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 17:43, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

The text says "The Tesla was proceeding west on Artesia against the red light when it struck the Civic, which was turning left from Vermont onto Artesia."

but the accompanying animation shows the Civic emerging from the straight lane, rather than a left-turn lane. 98.51.94.150 (talk) 09:13, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Speaking of the animations, who made them exactly? Can we get some more, pretty please? QRep2020 (talk) 11:26, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

The start of the article is over-long, overly-technical and serms to read like a poor public relations hand out. Given that the safety of hands-free/self-driving car remains a major issue of concern, should not the 'Safety, statistics and concerns' section be placed nearer the top of the article - and given greater importance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.151.2.44 (talk) 20:34, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Given the continued, demonstrably false claims by Elon Musk that fully autonomous vehicles are coming soon, stretching back to 2013, I do not believe we should place any further credibility in Musk's predictions and references that primarily repeat his statements should be discounted. In addition, news organizations have been asked to view Musk's words skeptically.^[1] I have taken the time to document these prior claims and determined whether or not they were met, based on the simple criterion "Did a Tesla vehicle meet SAE Level 5 autonomy by the date claimed?", as noted below.

More information Date, Prediction ...

Elon Musk's predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles

Date	Prediction	Quote	Met	Ref(s).
Sep 2013	2016	"We should be able to do 90 percent of miles driven [autonomously] within three years."	No	[2]
Oct 2014	2015	"A Tesla car next year will probably be 90-percent capable of autopilot. Like, so 90 percent of your miles can be on auto. For sure highway travel."	AP/HW1 released Oct 2015 for highways[3]	[4][5]
Oct 2015	2018	"From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner."	No	[6]
Dec 2015	2018	"We're going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years."	No	[7]
Jan 2016	2018	"Ultimately you'll be able to summon your car anywhere … your car can get to you. I think that within two years, you'll be able to summon your car from across the country. It will meet you wherever your phone is … and it will just automatically charge itself along the entire journey."	No	[8]
Jun 2016	2019	"I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved problem. ... We're less than two years away from complete autonomy. Regulators however will take at least another year; they'll want to see billions of miles of data."	No	[9]
Oct 2016	Dec 2017	"Our goal is, and I feel pretty good about this goal, that we'll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from LA to New York, from home in LA to let's say dropping you off in Times Square in New York, and then having the car go park itself, by the end of next year. Without the need for a single touch, including the charger."	No	[10][11][12]
Apr 2017	Dec 2017	"November or December of this year, we should be able to go from a parking lot in California to a parking lot in New York, no controls touched at any point during the entire journey."	No	[13]
May 2017	2019	"I think [a driver will be able to sleep at the wheel in] about two years. So the real trick of it is not how do you make it work say 99.9 percent of the time, because, like, if a car crashes one in a thousand times, then you're probably still not going to be comfortable falling asleep. You shouldn't be, certainly."	No	[14][15]
Feb 2018	Aug 2018	"[Autopilot is] going to kind of be like [the progression of DeepMind's AlphaGo] for self-driving. It will feel like well this is a lame driver, lame driver. Like okay, that's a pretty good driver. Like holy cow, this driver's good. It'll be like that. I mean, timing-wise, I think we could probably do a coast-to-coast drive in three months, six months at the outside."	No	[16]
Nov 2018	2019	"You know, I think we'll get to full self-driving next year. As a generalized solution, I think. But that's a ... Like we're on track to do that next year. So I don't know. I don't think anyone else is on track to do it next year."	No	[17]
Feb 2019	Dec 2019	"I think we will be feature complete — full self-driving — this year, meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up and take you all the way to your destination without an intervention, this year. I would say I am of certain of that. That is not a question mark."	No	[18]
Apr 2019	2020	"I feel very confident predicting that there will be autonomous robotaxis from Tesla next year — not in all jurisdictions because we won't have regulatory approval everywhere." "From our standpoint, if you fast forward a year, maybe a year and three months, but next year for sure, we'll have over a million robotaxis on the road."	No	[19]
Apr 2020	2020	"[Robotaxi] functionality still looking good for this year. Regulatory approval is the big unknown."	No	[20][21]
Jul 2020	Dec 2020	"I'm extremely confident that level five - or essentially complete autonomy - will happen and I think will happen very quickly. I feel like we are very close. I remain confident that we will have the basic functionality for level five autonomy complete this year. There are no fundamental challenges remaining. There are many small problems. And then there's the challenge of solving all those small problems and putting the whole system together."	No	[22][23]
Jan 2021	Dec 2021	"And it's now actually more -- it's more common than not for the car to have no interventions, even on a complex drive. So -- and this is -- basically I'm highly confident the car will drive itself for the reliability in excess of a human this year. This is a very big deal."	No	[24]
Apr 2022	Dec 2022	"The whole road system is made for biological neural nets and eyes. And so actually, when you think about it, in order to solve driving, we have to solve neural nets and cameras to a degree of capability that is on par with, or really exceeds humans. And I think we will achieve that this year."	No	[25]
Aug 2022	Dec 2022	"The two technologies I am focused on, trying to ideally get done before the end of the year, are getting our Starship into orbit ... and then having Tesla cars to be able to do self-driving. ... Have self-driving in wide release at least in the U.S., and ... potentially in Europe, depending on regulatory approval."	FSD beta wide release Nov 2022	[26]
May 2023	Dec 2023	"I mean, it does look like [full autonomy is] gonna happen this year. ... Well, we're now at the point where the car can drive on highways and in cities with and where a human dimension is extremely rare. So I mean, just – I was able to drive for several days, just dropping a navigation pin in random locations in the Greater Austin area with no interventions. And the same in San Francisco, which is a very difficult place to drive."	No	[27]
Jul 2023	Dec 2023	"People have sort of made fun of me and perhaps quite fairly have made fun of me, my predictions about achieving full self-driving have been optimistic in the past ... I'm the boy who cried FSD, but I think we'll be better than human by the end of this year. I've been wrong in the past, I may be wrong this time."	No	[28]
Jan 2024	Dec 2024	"You know, I really think lots of car companies should be asking for [full self-driving] licenses. [...] we've had some tentative conversations, but I think they don't believe it's real quite yet. I think that that will become obvious probably this year."	TBD	[29]
Oct 2024	Dec 2025	"We do expect actually to start fully autonomous, unsupervised FSD in Texas and California next year. And obviously that's with the Model 3 and Model Y and then we expect to be in production with the CyberCab which is really highly optimized for autonomous transport in probably, well, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames ... but in 2026. So yeah, before 2027, let me put it that way."	TBD	[30]

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Mliu92 (talk) 14:44, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Beautiful. QRep2020 (talk) 01:43, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

Hey Mliu92, I would love to have this chart see the light of day. If we hesitate to incorporate it here, would you mind if I brought it over to Criticism of Tesla, Inc.? QRep2020 (talk) 05:51, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

@QRep2020 Sure, either way, no objections to incorporating the chart. Cheers, Mliu92 (talk) 06:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

It summarises a lot of information at a good level of detail. Unfortunately, the article as a whole reads rather hit-pieceish.

I would encourage readers interested in the technology, especially safety conscious potential buyers, to seek information directly from actual users and experience the system themselves if possible. This article does, sadly, not provide a balanced description (it seems to be a recurrent issue in the automobile industry, I recall similar criticism when seat belts were made mandatory, or when ABS and airbags were introduced, for instance). 85.160.32.101 (talk) 10:07, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Tesla changed the name of FSD to FSD Capability. Should I rename a few of the occurrences to that?   - Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 16:25, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Maybe in a few places with the full name spelled out, but 'FSD' works fine and is still used consistently by RS. QRep2020 (talk) 19:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

People complained about the size of the article, so I took to divvying it up. That said, I encourage users like Mliu92 to help summarize the many, many Autopilot accidents and fatalities at the Fatal and nonfatal crashes subsection. QRep2020 (talk) 13:37, 15 June 2024 (UTC)

Why are these figures missing? Are they too good, to show them? 2001:9E8:CAFB:F700:949D:35A5:89D2:618F (talk) 20:45, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

@RickyCourtney in a recent revision says that "FSD" does not redirect to this page, but after a quick look I found that when you search "FSD", Tesla Autopilot is one of the first pages to appear, and the disambiguation page of FSD includes this page under the science and technology section. Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of what redirection means on Wikipedia, but I thought this was strange and wanted to open a thread for discussion DistilledPizza (talk) 17:27, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Per MOS:BOLD boldface is applied at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article. Redirects are pages that send people back to this page. For example when you go to the Autosteer page it directly sends you to the Lane centering page. However, the FSD page is a disambiguation page that links here, it’s not a direct redirect. In my reading of the MOS, it therefore shouldn’t be presented in bold. RickyCourtney (talk) 17:38, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for clarifying. I felt I probably had a misunderstanding of what redirects are, as I haven't done much reading on how Wikipedia actually works. DistilledPizza (talk) 17:52, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

I noticed that there is a large disparity in releases of FSD by hardware version. For example, HW4 has been updated nearly monthly but I believe the last FSD update for HW3 was distributed to customers in February 2025. And, of course, there have been none for HW1 or HW2. Perhaps we can have a table that shows which version number and the date of release to the customer, for each hardware version. This will be important as HW5 and HW6 come out. War (talk) 03:39, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

The Tesla Autopilot and Criticism of Tesla articles have sections that cover the same topic (Tesla_Autopilot#Criticism, Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Full_Self-Driving, and Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Autopilot) and reference eachother with "see also". Yet these sections contain different text and citations, and maintaining these is likely to be (or become) burdensome. I propose merging the two sections and transcluding the text from one article to the other. Thoughts? Dbsseven (talk) 12:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)