Tesla has now released the public version of FSD Beta 10.5. The public release comes in as version 2021.36.8.8.
Tesla was aiming to have the beta initially available this weekend, but after releasing the beta to employees, Tesla wanted to make some changes before releasing it publicly.
Tesla employees were initially given release 2021.36.8.7, followed by 2021.36.8.8 the following day.
It's not clear what the issue was, or what Tesla fixed, but the release notes for both versions are the same and the FSD Beta version number didn't change between them as the beta remains at v10.5.
98 Safety Scores
With this release Tesla is also hoping to expand the beta to owners who have achieved a Safety Score of 98 or higher.
It appears that that is still the plan as we haven't heard otherwise as of yet, but it doesn't appear that the expansion has started yet.
It's likely that Tesla is completing the rollout to all existing beta testers and will wait a few days before expanding it to additional testers.
Release Notes
Tesla has once again posted technical release notes for the beta. It doesn't appear to have any new functionality, but instead improving various key aspects of what it already does such as better object detection and maneuvering.
The full technical release notes are below:
- Improved VRU (pedestrians, bicyclists, motorcycles) crossing velocity error by 20% from improved quality in our auto-labeling.
- Improved static world predictions (road lines, edges, and lane connectivity) by up to 13% using a new static world auto-labeler and adding 165K auto-labeled videos.
- Improved cone and sign detections by upreving the generalized static object network with 15K more video clips and adjusting oversampling and overweighting strategies (+ 4.5% precision, + 10.4% recall).
- Improved cut-in detection network by 5.5% to help reduce false slowdowns.
- Enabled "emergency collision avoidance maneuvering" in shadow mode
- Enabled behavior to lane change away from merges when safe to do so.
- Improved merge object detection recall by using multi-modal object prediction at intersections.
- Improved control for merges by increasing smoothness of arrival time constraints and considering possible merging objects beyond visibility.
- Improved lane changes by allowing larger deceleration limit in short-deadline situations.
- Improved lateral control for creeping forward to get more visibility.
- Improved modeling of road boundaries on high curvature roads for finer maneuvers.
- Improved logic to stay on-route and avoid unnecessary detours/rerouting.
The full release notes for this beta are accessible on our release notes page.
New Terms
The FSD Beta will also require you to reapprove the terms of use, which will require you to go into Controls > Autopilot before you can use FSD.
The terms appear to be the same as the previous beta, so it's not clear whether Tesla will be updating the terms or if this will be a new policy where you will have to accept the terms with each beta release.
It does serve as a reminder that this is still very much beta software and you need to be vigilant when using it.
First Look
The first videos of beta 10.5 are now becoming available. Here are some of the first videos below.
In this first video DirtyTesla tries the beta around some major construction.
Visualizations
We haven't noticed any new object visualizations yet, but the visualizations for road lines and road edges appear to be much improved.
Previously when the car wasn't sure exactly where a line or edge was, it could cause excessive blurring or jitteriness where the line would shift back and forth.
In this release the lines appear much more consistent and do not bounce back and forth as much as they did in previous releases.
The improved visualizations can be seen in this James Locke video where he takes the beta through his test loop 1. James has consistently tested previous betas through various loops so that we can see their progress over time.
If you'd like to see all the FSD visualizations that the beta can display and what they mean, you should take a look at our FSD Visualizations article.
Beta | Released | Version |
July 10th, 2021 | ||
July 31st, 2021 | ||
August 15th, 2021 | ||
September 11th, 2021 | ||
September 18th, 2021 | ||
September 25th, 2021 | ||
October 11th, 2021 | ||
October 24th, 2021 | ||
October 25th, 2021 | ||
November 6th, 2021 | ||
Beta 10.5 | November 22nd, 2021 |
