Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Roll Out FSD Beta V11 Next Week

Tesla's Full Self-Driving will finally be updated to v11

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Tesla's FSD Beta version 11 is expected to arrive next week, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. This comes a few days after Tesla started rolling out FSD Beta 10.69.3.3.

The outspoken CEO responded to a comment from Tesla Owners Silicon Valley’s account asking about FSD Beta version 11’s release. To which Musk responded, “Next week.”

The Austin-based automotive company has slowly started rolling out FSD Beta v11 to select employees, but now it's rumored to be a part of Tesla's Holiday Update. The update, which is perhaps one of Tesla’s biggest to date, is chock-full of exciting features such as Steam and Apple Music integration, new media cards and controls, and hopefully a single-stack for Full Self-Driving Beta.

Unifying highway and city driving into a single stack is expected to bring big improvements to highway Autopilot use. In technology, a single stack refers to using the same technologies for multiple applications instead of having separate technologies for different features or services. Applying the much better and recent FSD Beta technology to highway driving will allow Tesla to combine all of the data it has gathered from city driving and apply it to its Navigate on Autopilot feature.

This integration between all of Tesla’s technologies will likely mean much smoother merging, lane changes and cornering on the highway. The city-driving visuals are also expected to be applied to highway driving.

One of the recent builds of FSD Beta v11 was spotted last month and the release notes have recently been leaked, showing that this new beta will in fact merge highway and city driving. This internal only version was version 2022.40.5, is not expected to be the build that will go out to the public.

Merging of FSD Beta and Production Updates

When FSD Beta v11 goes out to beta testers next week, it's expected to be a part of the Holiday Update, which means that FSD Beta and regular production builds will finally be merged and beta testers will no longer remain on a separate track.

For owners who are not in the FSD Beta, this means that they'll finally have access to the FSD Beta by simply turning on the option in the vehicle. FSD Beta will no longer be a separate version or update.

For exisiting beta testers this will also be a big deal. Beta testers will now stay current with the latest updates and features and will not have to wait months between updates.

Tesla's single-stack was exected as early as this summer, but that timeframe conveyed by Elon was likely overly optimistic.

But now that it’s going wide in about a week, the wait is almost over. And we’re likely going to see major improvements to Navigate on Autopilot and FSD in 2023 and beyond, especially as Tesla gears up to add HD radar next month, the announcement of hardware 4, and the revamped 2023 Model 3.

We’re anticipating 2023 to be a big year for Tesla.

Tesla Sends Out Another Free Trial of FSD

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Following the events of We, Robot, Tesla has begun sending its customers in the U.S. and Canada another free trial of FSD. While FSD is a feature built into every Tesla, not every owner has tried it out, especially given its price tag.

However, the subscription option does provide a fairly economical way to test out FSD - but Tesla’s got something else on their minds here. Why not try out hands-free FSD for the first time for many users? While many vehicles still include FSD 12.3.6, many users are getting updated to update 2024.32.10, which FSD 12.5.4.1.

This version includes Actually Smart Summon and hands-free driver monitoring with sunglasses support.

This means it's an excellent time to give customers another chance to experience the latest FSD features.

Trial Details

The trial is coming out as an email from Tesla, offering free Full Self Driving as a complementary 30 day trial for its customers. This email ia going out to both, customers who have never tried FSD before and to customers who received the previous trial back in April.

The trial email will be sent out to customers in both the United States and Canada, and will offer 30 days of complementary, free, Full Self Driving. Within 24 hours, owners will receive a notification in the cars, saying that “Your Autopilot package has been upgraded. Enable your new feature in Autopilot settings”. 

Keep in mind that the FSD version on your car software is likely FSD 12.3.6, which doesn’t include Actually Smart Summon, but you should receive an update to FSD 12.5.4.1 shortly after.

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FSD will not be enabled by default, but users will be prompted to enable FSD with a modal pop-up.

Enable the Trial

Once you've received the trial notification via email, there’s no need to subscribe to FSD or activate it in any manner. FSD will automatically show up in your vehicle, but it can take up to a day after receiving the email. Unfortunately, for some owners who may be away for work or vacation, you can not postpone the trial, and it begins immediately.

Although Tesla has moved away from the FSD Beta wording and it’s now officially called FSD (Supervised), always remember that this feature requires you to be constantly aware of your surroundings and to monitor the vehicle closely. While FSD will navigate, change lanes, and even take turns, it's imperative to stay attentive and cautious—the system is designed to assist, not replace, the driver.

What If I Already Subscribe

In the previous FSD trial earlier this year, Tesla also gave a free trial to all Tesla owners who already subscribe to FSD. This essentially gives you a month of FSD for free. We expect this trial to function the same way. After you receive the email, you should see the payment date for FSD skip a month so that you only get charged the next FSD payment after your free month ends.

Unfortunately, if you bought FSD, the offer doesn’t apply to you since you already own FSD for the life of the vehicle.

How to Get the FSD Trial

You don’t need to do anything special to get the FSD trial. Tesla isn’t sending it to everyone at once, but most owners who live in the U.S. or Canada should receive the free 30-day trial at some point in the future.

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Tesla's New Navigation Voice and How to Get It

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Tesla has updated its English voice for navigation guidance on newer vehicles. Many users have noted a change in the pitch and speed of the spoken text when using Tesla’s navigation system. Right now, we’re not sure whether this voice change is an indication of a larger change that’s coming, a minor tweak for better clarity, or possibly a bug.

Update: We’ve updated the article with how you can get the new voice in your existing vehicle.

Tesla Voice Guidance

A reader, known as FSDTester#420 on Tesla Motors Club, recently reached out to us to report a new nav voice. He took delivery of a new Tesla and immediately noticed that the navigation’s voice was much better than his other Tesla. The voice is noticeably faster and appears to have fewer pauses, making it sound more natural.

After posting his experience on Tesla Motors Club, other readers chimed in, saying they had the same voice in their new vehicle. The change does not appear to be affecting older vehicles, but it turns out you can update other vehicles as well (see steps below).

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You can listen to the navigation voice guidance in the video video below by FSDTester#420.

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How to Get the New Voice

It turns out you can get the new voice on older vehicles as well, but it requires resetting all of your settings. X user, IRSHater69, tipped us off that a software reset may get you the new nav voice, and @brandonee916 just recently tried it and confirmed that resetting the MCU will indeed get you the new, faster voice.

If you’d like the new voice, you’ll need to factory reset your vehicle, meaning that all settings will go back to their factory defaults. You can do this by going to Controls > Service > Factory Reset. This will reset all of your vehicle settings, but most settings are now saved to your Tesla profile in the cloud, assuming you have one set up. Keep in mind that not all settings are saved to your profile and will be lost.

Settings such as browser bookmarks, trip meters, and others are not saved to your profile, and you will lose them if you factory reset your vehicle. Any drivers who don’t use a cloud account (the ones that display an avatar) will also be lost, and the driver will need to set them up again. This includes data such as seat and mirror positions, Autopilot settings, and more.

Update: Brandon has reported that his navigation voice has reverted back to the older one. It’s not clear what caused it to revert or if other users would face the same situation. If you have tried a factory reset and received the new voice, let us know.

Tesla Smart Assistant

It looks like Tesla will be updating its Voice Commands system in the future, with Musk recently saying that Tesla will support Grok AI in the car. Tesla’s current voice commands are limited and require you to say phrases in a very specific way, although they do give you access to the most common features (Top 10 Tesla Voice Commands).

Overall, voice commands are not very smart – and they’re nothing like using Google Gemini with Voice or other modern AI-based assistants. Back in January, Tesla began implementing a smart assistant in China – which brought things beyond just vehicle control, like weather updates, stock market information, language translation, and even poetry.

However, this never made its way out of China, even though Tesla’s smart voice assistant has been sitting dormant in the software for quite a while. It looks like we’ll get a wake-word, similar to the common “Hey, Tesla” – it could even be “Hey, Grok” – if we get full Grok integration as previously hinted at by Elon Musk earlier in 2024.

Either way, for now, there haven’t been any significant changes, but this voice change we’re seeing could be related to Tesla’s upcoming smart assistant feature, where they may need a more capable, more natural sounding voice.

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