ewoodrick
Well-Known Member
FSD (supervised) was FSD (beta), and before that Enhanced Autopilot, and before that Autopilot. Tesla keeps changing the names, and fragmenting the functions.
That's not quite right. It's a lot more nuanced than that. Sure, the FSD product line leads the development. And EA and AP are basically earlier versions (more specifically a subset of the functionality at a specific time.)
But yes, at one point in time through FSD history, the EA and AP functionality were nearly the same as FSD.
That comes from the fact that Tesla was getting a lot of pressure to create features similar to the other cars of the day. So they grabbed a bunch of code and called it AutoPilot. They then grabbed a bigger chunk of code and called it EAP.
But when AutoPilot was introduced, it was NOT the same as FSD
When EAP was introduced, it was not the same as FSD.
FSD was always a few jumps beyond.