As rivals begin to threaten Tesla's leadership position in the electric vehicle market, and China's BYD has technically already displaced its American rival, Elon Musk's company is starting to look beyond price competition. In North America, every buyer of a new Tesla electric vehicle will now be required to undergo a brief introduction to FSD technology.
This was reported by CNBC with reference to Tesla’s internal order, which came directly from the company’s CEO to the specialists who are responsible for the delivery and sale of electric vehicles. Tesla employees who issue electric cars to customers are now required to install the latest version of FSD 12.3.1 on their cars and arrange a short test drive to demonstrate the ability of the automation before handing over the electric car to the owner for use.
“Almost no one has any idea how well FSD technology actually works with a driver behind the wheel. I know this will slow down the delivery of cars, but this is a strict requirement,” Elon Musk said in his address to Tesla employees in North America. Obviously, due to this requirement, Musk hopes to remind that every Tesla released since 2016 is capable of, after a software update, gaining the ability to be controlled automatically without driver intervention. True, despite Tesla’s steady progress towards creating a full autopilot, this complex has not yet achieved its goal. Initially, Musk stated that this would happen by the end of 2019, but since then, with the onset of each new year, he has pushed this target back by another 12 months.
Along the way, Musk appealed to auto assembly workers to take part in the process of delivering electric vehicles to customers by the end of the quarter. Typically, this human resource is not used for such activity, but in order to improve reporting for the first quarter, Tesla is ready to take such measures. Hourly workers receive additional money for participating in the logistics process for finished electric vehicles.
It is noteworthy that at the end of last week, Elon Musk, on the pages of his social network X, announced that Tesla has no technical limitations in terms of the development of its proprietary artificial intelligence system. At least now the company has enough computing power to solve the assigned tasks in improving its artificial intelligence system. Just a few months ago, Musk used a lack of computing resources as one of the justifications for the lengthy development of a full autopilot.
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