Last night, Tesla finally rolled out FSD V13.2, giving its early access testers a host of new features with update 2024.39.10. While they barely missed the Thanksgiving deadline, they still managed to deliver it in November, marking another major win for Tesla's AI team.

Early access only

FSD V13.2 is starting to roll out to early access testers - who often get to experience the latest version for themselves before anyone else. They are the equivalent of Tesla's trusted testers who don't run internal builds - they are able to capture more scenarios outside of Tesla's rather extensive safety training suite.

If no major issues are found, Tesla will begin slowly rolling out the push to more and more vehicles in the coming weeks. Assuming all goes well with this release, it will probably be in the hands of most customers by Christmas.

A reminder, of course, that the FSD V13 is still limited to vehicles equipped with AI4 - for now, anything but the Cybertruck. The Cybertruck is located on its own FSD branch and doesn't have access to Actually Smart Summon and Speed Profiles, but has end-to-end functionality on the highway. The Cybertruck was recently upgraded to Update 2024.39.5 (FSD V12.5.5.3).

FSD V13.2 Function

Let's take a look at everything in FSD V13.2 - this is the build that is now available on Tesla Software Update 2024.39.10. While we previously gave a brief preview of what to expect in V13, now we can see everything included in FSD V13.2.

Start FSD by stopping, reversing and stopping at destination

Parked to Parked has been a goal of the FSD for a long time. Elon Musk has been saying that with the release of V12.3.6, this will be the key to showing off Tesla's autopilot framework - at the time V12.5 was just a glimmer of light in the eyes of Tesla's AI team.

Now, in V13, FSD integrates three key features.

Unpark: You can now start FSD while you are still parked. Simply set your destination and click and hold the new Start FSD button. The car will now shift out of park gear and into forward or reverse gear to reach its destination.

Reversal: FSD has finally gained the ability to transfer. The vehicle can now not only reverse, but also seamlessly switch between parking, driving and reversing on its own. It can perform a 3-point turn.

Parking: When the FSD arrives at its destination, it will now park itself if it finds an empty space near its final location. Tesla says this is being further improved and in the future drivers will be able to choose between pulling over, parking in a parking space, driveway or garage.

If the driving goes well, the user will no longer need to provide any input to the vehicle, from its original location to the final parking space. Unless intervention is required, there is no need for more user intervention beyond monitoring.

Full resolution AI4 video input

So far, FSD V12.5 and V12.6 have been using reduced image quality and reduced frame rates to match the lower resolution and lower refresh rate offered by Hardware 3 cameras. For the first time, FSD will use the AI4 (formerly known as Hardware 4) camera at a higher resolution and at 36 frames per second.

In short, this means better image quality in training and use, and greater accuracy for things like signage and distance measurements.

Speed profile for all roads

FSD V12.5.6.2 brings new and improved speed profiles to city streets and highways, including the new Hurry Mode, which replaces Assertive Mode. However, on V12.5.6.2, there are some limitations - the road requires a fairly high minimum speed limit of 50 MPH (80 km/h) or more. That is no longer the case. City Streets now has speed profiles for all speed limits.

5 times training calculation

The Cortex is Tesla's massive new supercomputer cluster at Giga Texas that is now online and processing data at truly insane speeds. It is one of the fastest AI clusters in the world and is dedicated to FSD. Tesla reduced the training computation processing time by a factor of five by a factor of nine to address the March of 9 issue as FSD functionality was nearing completion.

Faster decision making

Tesla refactored the way it handles images to processing in the FSD V13, another set of big changes to improve performance. In this version, the photonic to control delay is improved by a factor of 2, which is huge. In layman's terms - that is, faster decision-making - it's already faster than humans, and now it's twice as fast as before.

Audio input collected data

One of the features listed by Tesla in FSD V13.2 is the vehicle's ability to collect and share audio clips with Tesla. The vehicle will ask you if you agree to share a 10-second audio file with Tesla so that the vehicle can detect emergency vehicles by sound in the future.

Camera visibility detection

If visibility issues are detected, the vehicle will now prompt you at the end of the drive. The new options are under Controls > Service > Camera Visibility. When the vehicle experiences visibility issues while driving, Tesla also retains images from the camera so you can analyze them later.

Starting with FSD V12.5.6.2, your Tesla will warn you when it needs cleaning and guide you to help clean the camera. This, along with the less annoying notification of the FSD downgrade, will be great change for those who don't drive in sunny weather.

Better collision avoidance

With all the changes made to the AI model in V13, it also brings changes in the way AI senses and handles collision avoidance.

FSD has already earned a reputation for cleanly avoiding T-bone collisions during red light incidents, but it's going to get better from here on out.

Vehicle-to-fleet communication

One of the features V12.5 should bring is queue-based dynamic routing. If one route closes, your Tesla will turn around and navigate through another path - and warn the rest of the fleet to close.

The V13 lets the AI4 cars do just that, which is another element of the Robotaxi network that Tesla needs to launch to make sure that once they start deploying their first fleet - they're running well. So far, with the new post of Robotaxi Engineers and talks with Palo Alto to launch a Robotaxi service, both Unsupervised FSD and Robotaxi are on track sometime in 2025.

Better traffic control

Another major update is the redesigned traffic controller - which can track other vehicles and objects around them more smoothly and accurately. We delve into how traffic controllers process information in this article, where you can learn all about how Tesla's signal processing works.


Upcoming improvements

Tesla also mentioned a number of upcoming FSD V13 panel improvements, including a larger model, audio input, better navigation and routing, improvements to false braking, destination options, and better camera occlusion handling. That's a pretty big list for V13, so we'll be keeping an eye out for all of these upcoming features that are expected in future releases.