FSD update v12.5.6.2 is expected to start rolling out this week. FSD 12.5.6.2 will be the successor to v12.5.6.1, which has been rolling out over the past week. This latest release is still limited to AI4 vehicles, but is expected to expand to HW3 vehicles in the coming days or weeks.

FSD 12.5.6.2 will be mostly a bug-fix release, but anyone who isn’t on FSD 12.5.6.x yet, it brings major new features such as Speed Profiles and the End-to-End Highway stack.

There’s one bug fix that’s coming in v12.5.6.2 that’s worth the wait. Tesla is finally making changes to the dreaded “Full Self Driving may be degraded; Poor weather detected” notification that plagues the ears of everyone driving with FSD in anything less than California sunshine.

The Complaint

The old FSD weather degradation notification would pop up constantly in poor weather, and ding at nearly full volume. And in light rain, it would sometimes come up, then go away, then come up again. More infuriating was the fact that because it was a critical (red exclamation) notification, whatever audio you were listening to would duck down in volume behind the incessant dinging.

Of course, turning on Joe Mode would lower the volume of the ping, but didn’t fix the audio ducking. We wonder if this could finally be the Joe Mode update with a volume slider that owners have been asking for since 2020.

The Solution

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s now VP of AI, confirmed on X that v12.5.6.2 would be releasing this coming week, along with a fix to the constant dinging and notifications. This will be a nice change, and we’re excited to see what else Tesla has been cooking up while we wait for FSD v13, which should be just a few short weeks away.

Release Date

Given that FSD v12.5.6.1 has going been going out in small waves this past week, we’ll likely see v12.5.6.2 roll out initially to early access testers, and if it goes well, out wide to the rest of the AI4 owners in short order. Within a week or two, HW3 owners will hopefully also get the update, once Tesla finishes the optimizations required to get the new model running smoothly on HW3.