#15 Tesla Hardware 4 5 Mystery What's New

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Now they have made some changes that they have completely unannounced and they're not saying anything about it and that is the computer on the inside of the car which you cannot see. So under the passenger side footwell, if you pull a panel down it'll tell you what computer is in there. Now in the infotainment system it will say hardware four. When you go to the sticker underneath the footwell it will say hardware 4.5 and basically what my understanding is is that is a three sock system so it can handle more compute and has more fault tolerance. It's just evolving so it can handle more full self-driving technology. The question is though, will hardware four vehicles be left in the dust as we transition toward hardware five? I don't know. I personally I think where the full self-driving in this is right now is unbelievable. Now after doing a little bit more research on this hardware 4.5 situation, I found that it actually might just be a misprint on the label.

[00:00:56]Now with that said, I do find it to be a really weird misprint. I still think there is a chance but ultimately what you would need to do is take your car apart to see if it was a 4.5 system if that even exists. So everyone on X seems to think it's just an error but I just have my doubts because I could see them covering up for what was a leak which could hurt their sales in the short term as people wait for hardware five but I truly don't know. I just wanted to at least mention it because it is a difference. It's just a weird sticker that they showed whereas in the past they said Highland didn't exist is an internal term but [snorts] then it was printed on a sticker underneath the seat. So I just wanted to leave this in there as this isn't that credible of a change and it might be no change at all.

[00:01:40]So they're adding more compute, they're adding a three sock system and that's that. Now overall on the exterior of the vehicle everything still fairly the same so you still have the silver lining on the roof, you still have the darker rear windows. The only other thing on the exterior that they've changed is the badging on the back. Now comes standard in chrome black. So, if you see on my vehicle here where it says dual motor, so I'm at Dynamic Tint currently and that's why we're able to film this other vehicle. Uh so, Tyler put this on in the aftermarket. Now, the vehicle comes with this standard. So, this has full body PPF and this newer one also did a full body PPF. Now, it comes with that lettering in black and this is a launch edition. So, technically the dual motor is generally over here on the regular models uh and they don't make the launch editions anymore. If you can find a launch edition used, it's actually a really good deal cuz it comes with a perpetual license of full self-driving.