Part 6/14:
Breakthroughs in Autonomous Driving and Robotics
Full Self-Driving (FSD)
Musk is optimistic about the exponential improvements in FSD software, emphasizing that the current iterations are approaching safety levels surpassing human drivers. He discussed the planned rollouts of Hardware 5, expected in about 18 months, which will offer ten times the capabilities of Hardware 4 and be foundational both for autonomous vehicles and Optimus robots. Musk predicts that successive versions (12.4, 12.5, etc.) will deliver radical safety and efficiency gains, with the fleet collecting billions of miles of data to refine and validate the system.