Tesla FSD 12.3.6 vs Waymo: Our Closest Race Yet!

Waymo and Tesla FSD Supervised V12.3.6 take on the route from McCormick Railroad Park to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona. Waymo is an autonomous taxi that serves a large portion of Phoenix and surrounding cities.

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[thewatcher]

To think Tesla is doing this with just cameras is hugely impressive. With 12.4 out this week with supposedly a 5 to 10x improvement, there is only one car in this race to autonomy, and it isn't Waymo. The fact Waymo chose not to navigate the roundabout at the end shows its limitations. Tesla still has work to do, but it is taking on the much bigger challenge of driving anywhere, with the huge data lead Tesla has, and no longer being compute constrained the gap will only widen.

Keep them coming Callas, These videos are great for showing the capabilities and progress of both systems.

[ernietam]

thanks. It was a very good side by side comparison. Excellent!

[eastmanwebb]

Thanks for taking the time to do this comparison.

[Cdictator]

Please keep up with the comparative videos. I think soon there will be no more need for comparing Tesla to Waymo, because they will be always the same in certain geographical areas, but no comparison in other areas because Waymo couldn’t go there lol😂

[nathanaelculver]

My only nit is that, since the Waymo was in front most of the drive, it was confusing having it on the bottom of the video; I kept thinking the upper view was the Waymo.

Thanks for the video; great job as always.

[balaji-kartha]

There is no comparison between the two. Just because both are cars that can drive themselves does not mean they are the same! One is an animal in a zoo and the other is out in the open and free to go anywhere! One is grotesque with weird tumours all over its body and the other is a handsome beautiful elegant intelligent robot !

[ashegam]

awesome review and very well put together video. cheers!

[fredhearty]

With the home court advantage (pre-mapped area) and avoiding freeways, Tesla still matched the performance of Waymo. As usual, drop the two vehicles in random city -- globally -- and the result would be very different.

[aurora_occidentalis]

I use FSD every day and intervention-free drives are becoming routine.

Tesla FSD is rapidly improving and will obsolete expensive over-sensored Waymo when Robotaxi becomes available.

Nice vid!

[Zedus-rlhp]

The roundabout was a classic Waymo move: places that could cause problems are avoided. They probably do it to reduce the necessary interventions and thus improve the statistics a little.

[SpaceXmank]

I don’t want to drive without FSD now.. This is the future…

[user-]

this is the best waymo vs Tesla comparison video. more videos like this pls!

[ysin]

Thank you so much! These comparisons are very valuable information.

[joshb.]

For those that haven't tried it (and rely on video only) FSD made a gigantic leap. It's incredibly smooth and adept in all types of settings. And I was a skeptic. A few notes, got a new Model Y in Nov 2023 (2nd one) and Tesla provided a free month of FSD. It was good for the freeway but too choppy and abrupt for roadways (In in SoCal, Orange County). FSD went away with the initial trial at time of purchase. Then, the big FSD update happened around mid March and Tesla provided another free month of FSD. Totally diffferent experience! Smooth take offs and braking. Good decisions. Could go pretty much anywhere. I was skeptical in Nov but incredibly impressed in March-Apr. And, yes, we have roundabouts near our home, without the escape route.

[alekar]

Wow very cool format, hope you make more of these in the future

[juancolmenares]

that first left turn had me sweating! One thing I noticed looking at the Waymo from the Tesla was that the Waymo tends to stick to the right side of the lane, it wasn't completely centered. I thought that was weird.

[bartdeking]

Waymo has no change. V13 out for FSD this video will age well

[aptwo]

Love this side by side shots. Keep making these, very good way to compare how both cars do.

[raymondgonsalves]

great job!!!! excellent comparison. I would love to see a a comparison in a more challenging driving environment.