Tesla now says it needs its own maps for FSD after years of dismissing maps

According to Electrek, Tesla has acknowledged it needs its own maps to fix persistent Full Self-Driving problems such as reading speed limits, parking and routing, marking a reversal from years of dismissing map-dependent systems as brittle.

On a recent earnings call, Tesla's AI head said the company is building a fleet-sourced map layer that will begin handling trip start and end points with the next FSD version and later take over navigation, parking and destination handling. The move follows shareholder complaints about reliance on third-party maps and evidence that the vision system still misreads speed signs, including a Belgian test where FSD exceeded 30 km/h limits in over half of zones.

The article notes Tesla's approach now resembles Waymo's practice of mapping cities before deployment, though without lidar, and that unsupervised FSD for consumer vehicles has been pushed to 2027, limited to a robotaxi fleet operating in geofenced areas.

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Tesla now says it needs its own maps for FSD after years of dismissing maps — Electrek