Elon Musk has made a brand new assertion about Full Self-Driving software program that reassured homeowners of Tesla automobiles with HW3, however it’s going bum out homeowners of newer Tesla automobiles with HW4.

{Hardware} 4.0 (HW4) is Tesla’s newest suite of Autopilot/self-driving sensors and a brand new FSD pc. The brand new {hardware}, which provides radar and new cameras throughout the car, has already been deployed in most of Tesla’s car lineup.

Whereas Tesla was anticipated to maintain upgrading its self-driving {hardware}, the transfer to HW4 was regarding for a lot of Tesla homeowners as a result of the automaker had but to ship the options it promised for automobiles with HW3.

There’s a concern that Tesla received’t maintain its promise to ship self-driving know-how to automobiles and that it’s going to want the brand new {hardware} – HW4, which isn’t retrofittable – to realize the aim.

CEO Elon Musk has tried to squash that concern by saying that Tesla remains to be dedicated to delivering self-driving on HW3 automobiles via software program updates.

Now, in a brand new remark on X (previously Twitter), he has gone a bit additional by warning HW4 homeowners that their software program will probably be about six months behind HW3 automobiles as Tesla focuses on delivering software program updates and enhancements to the latter:

HW4 software program will lag HW3 by at the least one other six months, as our focus must be on getting FSD on HW3 working tremendous properly and offered internationally.

That must be reassuring to HW3 homeowners, however it will be a bummer for homeowners of newer Tesla automobiles who’re nonetheless ready on options powered by the Autopilot/Self-Driving {hardware}.

If you happen to imagine Musk’s timeline, they may not have to attend for for much longer since he claims that Tesla will obtain this “tremendous properly” working degree on HW3 by the tip of the 12 months, however he has been unsuitable about timing many instances.

Electrek’s Take

That brings some welcomed readability to the plan with HW3/HW4.

On the opposite aspect, any slip on the HW3 timeline, which is probably going based mostly on historic efficiency, will lead to HW4 homeowners having to attend a very long time.

Personally, I’m nonetheless extra optimistic about HW4 as a result of the software program is already years behind, so six months is nothing. I choose having the potential for higher efficiency from the {hardware}.

On the similar time, there’s going to be HW5 and HW6, and many others.