Over the past few days, Tesla owners using FSD v13 on update 2025.38 began to receive an unexpected treat. Without a download or notification of a new patch, the vehicle’s visualization suddenly began showing new visualizations.
Users are now reporting seeing some of the 15 new vehicle visualizations. The full list includes models of emergency and service vehicles, trains, trailers, vulnerable road users, and other small vehicles, such as golf carts. The new visualizations help give drivers more insight into what FSD sees and that it’ll be able to handle the situation appropriately.
What About FSD V14?
Many users on FSD V13 suddenly began seeing these new assets, which many thought would be intended for FSD V14. These new features, however, were enabled without a software update. Instead, Tesla already had the assets ready to go in the current update and enabled them by changing a server-side configuration that the vehicle checks periodically.
These new assets were part of software update 2025.38, while FSD V14 is still based on update 2025.32, except for the Cybertruck. The next FSD V14 build may also be based on 2025.38, and these visualizations are likely to start showing up then — as long as Tesla keeps the feature flag enabled.
Thought I was going crazy when I saw this the first time 😂😅 https://t.co/XOU3iOXVAX pic.twitter.com/na4P7c045Y
— Brandon (@teslaflexx) November 6, 2025
Server-Side Configurations
By enabling a feature remotely, Tesla decouples deployment from activation, allowing them to enable or disable features across their fleet easily.
For example, with server-side controls, Tesla can treat its entire fleet as a live, dynamic A/B test. Tesla could deploy a version of FSD with multiple flags, whose controls are centrally managed and updated by Tesla when appropriate. When the vehicle checks the remote configuration, it can enable or disable features based on the new values. Tesla can update the entire fleet, individual vehicles, or segments, letting them test new features before deploying them fleet-wide.
Right now, several users on FSD v13 are reporting seeing golf carts. However, they’re not always properly identified. For example, the system is showing Smart cars, forklifts, and other types of vehicles as golf carts. It’s not clear whether this is intentional. While it’s not technically correct, showing a forklift as a golf cart is likely more accurate than showing it as a traditional vehicle. However, if they’re showing a Smart car as a golf cart, these vehicles can upload images whenever they encounter a “golf cart,” and Tesla can tweak tolerances for these visuals as needed.
Hardware 3 and Intel?
These new visualizations are exciting, as the vehicle has long shown some odd visualizations, such as displaying a train as a large convoy of trucks. These new visualizations include a lot more variety of what drivers see on the road almost every day, including strollers and skateboarders.
While we now know these new visualizations will apply to FSD V13, it’s not clear whether they’ll also apply to older hardware, such as HW3 or Intel infotainment units. The good news is that these models aren’t more complex than the existing FSD models and still feature boxy visuals.
We know that FSD V14 Lite is coming to HW3 vehicles, and we’ll hopefully see these new visualizations enabled by that point, if not sooner.
For FSD V14 users, it should only be a little longer before they start seeing these new visualizations. For now, check out the 15 new visualizations that are coming.
