Anybody Getting the Holiday Update on their CTs?

[Jhodgesatmb]

it’s not about which car or hardware you’re on, it’s about which firmware/FSD your individual vehicle is on.

If you’re ahead of the FSD version that ships with it you don’t get it. My Model X and my Model S Plaid are both on FSD v12.5.6.4 (which is the newest version of v12) that’s firmware 2024.33.40⁩. And my CT, just like yours, is firmware 2024.39.5; FSD v12.5.5.3.

As I said above, if your firmware/FSD version is ahead of what’s going out in the holiday update it doesn’t matter whether you have a S3XY or CT you will not be getting that update.

Think of it this way, you will never have both the latest and greatest FSD and the holiday update. It never works that way.

Choose one! Dirty Tesla nodded at this fact in one of his recent videos when he got v13. He noted that, “well I’m not going to have the holiday update but I’ll trade that for v12.x or v13 any day.” He knew immediately that he was not going to get the holiday update (and still does not have it) because it’s only coming out for those who are on FSD v12.5.4.2 or lower.

So it’s not about what car you have it’s about what firmware is stable enough/widespread enough or whatever I don’t know the exact criteria that is existent when they start working on/finish the holiday update.

This is the way it always works (when they add new features) people are just more keenly aware of it when the holiday update comes out because everybody wants to get it.

But you can take this to the bank: if there is a cool update that comes out on Teslas and your firmware version is ahead of where that update launches, you will not have it first and the further out you’re ahead, generally the longer you’ll have to wait.

There may be some nuances that I have wrong, but this is 100% been my experience and understanding of that experience since 2019.

Maybe you are right, but I do not see the point of having a holiday update, especially with CT-specific features, that doesn’t drop to every CT before the holidays.

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[rtfitch]

Has anyone activated santa mode

Yes, and I love it...BTW, in this brief clip, Blitzen is doing all the driving, I wouldn't venture into downtown without FSD. What a rush.

Well, the video did not work, but here is a picture from the Santa command center.

 

[65SoYoLO]

Lol the reindeer makes every drive hysterical

Yes, and I love it...BTW, in this brief clip, Blitzen is doing all the driving, I wouldn't venture into downtown without FSD. What a rush.

Well, the video did not work, but here is a picture from the Santa command center.

 

[DonSteve]

Need to find some Christmas blues music to play until the update. I am ok if we get FSD13 instead.

 

[fishtek]

I've got a 14 hour drive coming up with my wife, dog and two kids on the 22nd... really would be great to get the holiday update before that, thinking games in the backseat for one! The current FSD is pretty good on the interstate, so I'd be happy with the holiday update over FSD 13 and that come come in January!

 

[vandytom]

im just glad my CT got the last update

 

[ZillaVilla]

Getting my 2024.39.15 this morning...

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