First of all, for background, note that FSD was one of my top 4 reasons for buying a Tesla Model 3, and I'd be more than thrilled if FSD got to robotaxi-level capability — and
, and I’d be more than thrilled if FSD got to robotaxi-level capability — and the sooner, the better. I’m also a longtime TSLA shareholder, so any claims that I’d write anything negative about Tesla to hurt the stock are laughable. Lastly, just on a pure website traffic basis, we get much more love for pro-Tesla content than anti-Tesla content — the conspiracy theory that we’d write things critical of Tesla for clicks is ludicrous.
I received the latest Tesla FSD Beta update today and almost immediately took it out for a short drive — not because I expected much from it, but because I needed to go to the store and was going alone . I will have to use it more to see how well it is driving in different scenarios, but just on this short trip, which was on almost completely empty suburban roads, it displayed the same problems it’s had as long as I’ve had it.
But none of this surprised me or disappointed me. I stopped getting hopeful that new updates would solve these problems months ago. I never really expect notable improvement any more. I did for several months after getting FSD, but after not seeing any clear progress in that time , I instinctively realized it made more sense to expect nothing and wait to be surprised.
*Note that other experts in the field see this path toward truly autonomous driving as deeply faulty and predict that it will never work. And then there are experts somewhere in the middle. The Twitter user “green” is a white hat hacker who has worked to help Tesla identify and fix bugs in its software. They see robotaxi-capable Teslas as being years away.