---
title: "Tesla Shares All of Its Autopilot Data in Bid to Achieve Level 4 Autonomy"
description: "Tesla has just announced that it is willing to share nearly 780 million miles of data to achieve Level 4 autonomy and speed up the regulatory process."
date: "2016-06-14"
modified: "2016-06-14"
authors:
  - name: "Jelor Gallego"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jelor-gallego"
url: "https://futurism.com/tesla-willing-to-share-data-to-get-to-level-4-autonomy"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Tesla"
tags:
  - "Autonomous vehicles"
  - "driverless cars"
  - "elon musk"
  - "model s"
  - "Model X"
  - "Self-driving Technology"
  - "tesla"
---

# Tesla Shares All of Its Autopilot Data in Bid to Achieve Level 4 Autonomy

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Tesla's Autopilot feature [is certainly far from perfect](<https://futurism.com/watch-a-tesla-using-the-autopilot-feature-just-crashed-into-a-truck>). But it's currently the most popular shot out there for actual automated driving. So to improve Autopilot, Tesla is taking the humble route: it is willing to share data with the government and other companies in order to reach Level 4 autonomy in vehicles.

[Electrek reports that](<http://electrek.co/2016/06/03/tesla-share-autopilot-data-department-of-transport/>) Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered the US Department of Transportation its [780 million miles worth of Autopilot data](<http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/tesla-constant-cellular-tests-autonomy/#:scHhKydzl3eJ7A>), representing 70,000+ Autopilot-equipped Tesla Model S and Model Xs on the road. This is all to speed up regulatory approvals of fully autonomous vehicles.

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Level 4 autonomy represents the pinnacle of self-driving technology: it's the level where you merely have to tell the vehicle where you want to go and the vehicle will take you there, no other input required. In other words, a fully-functioning self-driving car.

No company has yet produced a Level 4 autonomy vehicle, but speculation regarding a supposed "big announcement" by Tesla at the end of 2017 has many wondering whether the automotive technology pioneer has finally achieved this milestone.