Tesla’s unreleased full self driving (FSD) Beta old firmware has been exposed and has been circulated in the Tesla cracking community. As of now, Tesla’s FSD Beta firmware has only been tested internally and as part of the automaker’s “early access program”, which includes some Tesla customers.
In the new FSD Beta firmware version, the driver is allowed to enter a location in the navigation system. Under the driver’s continuous supervision, the vehicle will try to drive to the location by itself, but the driver is still responsible and needs to be ready to control it at any time.
CEO Elon Musk has always promised to release the FSD package more widely to American Tesla owners, but the release time has been delayed several times. Recently, he said that it will be online before the end of September.
It is reported that the installation firmware files of Tesla FSD Beta have been leaked, and they have been passed on to Tesla’s root community. For Linux-based systems, such as Tesla’s operating system, root permissions generally refer to the ability to log in to some root accounts on the server, or to be able to run commands as root on the server.
Some hackers who own Tesla vehicles already know to use root privileges to check Tesla’s software updates and even activate unreleased or hibernating features. In this community, people have known that the FSD beta firmware has been around for a while, and with root privileges, you can run it in your vehicle.
They have remained silent so as not to alarm Tesla, but now a Ukrainian Tesla owner has released a video running the 8.2 version of FSD Beta in his own vehicle in Kiev. Tesla has not released the software yet.
This indirectly exposed that the software had leaked outside of Tesla’s internal testing and early access programs. Although this is an earlier version, sources familiar with the matter told Electrek that a newer version of FSD Beta 9 is also circulating.
Tesla is only adjusting its complete self-driving software for the U.S. market. It has not optimized it for regions outside the U.S. because the road signs and signs are different. In this video, you can see that the software has some problems due to this fact, but despite its limitations, its performance is relatively good.
