Tesla China's official website recently issued an important announcement announcing that its FSD (Full Self-Driving) driving kit is officially renamed to "FSD Intelligent Assisted Driving Function" in the Chinese market. This change is not only an adjustment to the feature name, but also an update to the capability description of the feature. Despite the name change, the price of the feature remains at 64,000 yuan, consistent with the previous one. It is worth noting that before the name change, the FSD function was literally translated as "full autonomous driving capability", a statement that has sparked widespread discussion.
According to relevant personnel inside Tesla, the company has decided to unify the Chinese expression of FSD into "intelligent assisted driving function" or "intelligent assisted driving system". This adjustment is intended to more accurately reflect the actual capabilities of the feature and avoid consumers' misunderstandings about "fully autonomous driving". However, compared with the official website name, the internal statement omits the "FSD" prefix, further emphasizing the auxiliary nature of the function.
At the same time, Tesla began to push 2024.45.32.12 software updates to some customers in batches. The core content of this update is the "City Road Auto-assisted Driving" function, which optimizes the existing NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) automatic navigation and driving. Specifically, vehicles can now identify traffic lights at intersections and complete operations such as direct, left, right, and turn. In addition, the vehicle can automatically change lanes according to speed and route, and select the optimal road to drive according to the actual road conditions without setting a navigation route. At present, this function is only available to some vehicles equipped with FSD intelligent assisted driving function and equipped with HW4.0 assisted driving hardware.
According to the description of the new FSD intelligent assisted driving feature, the feature will cover the full functions of the basic version assisted driving and the enhanced version of automatic assisted driving, and plans to launch Autopilot automatic assisted driving on controlled roads and urban roads in the future. Tesla said that in the future, vehicles will complete most driving tasks with very little driver intervention. Judging from the description, the "Autopilot Auto-assisted Driving on Urban Roads" function pushed today is part of the FSD intelligent assisted Driving function, marking Tesla's further exploration in the field of autonomous driving technology.
Tesla CEO Musk mentioned in a previous earnings call that the company plans to launch FSD (driver regulatory version) in Europe and China in 2025. This name change and feature upgrade are not only a reflection of Tesla's technological progress, but also reflects the company's keen insight into market demand. With the continuous development of autonomous driving technology, Tesla will continue to lead industry changes and provide users with a smarter and safer driving experience.