Tesla autonomous driving: After 8 years of false promises, Elon Musk still repels the deadline
Tesla’s supervised autonomous driving software, called Full Self-Driving (FSD), has not experienced concrete improvement since December 2024.
While Elon Musk promised a spectacular leap thanks to version 13, the data largely contradict this speech. The boss of Tesla now evokes a more complex new model, but returns, once again, later in the year. In the meantime, the owners of vehicles purchased with the promise of a day letting go of the steering wheel can iron.
Tesla FSD: six months of immobility, and always “for soon”
Officially, Tesla has not published new statistics to demonstrate the progress of its autonomous conduct. Unofficially, the community data that Musk himself once validated indicate that FSD V13 has certainly made an improvement-about twice as much kilometers traveled without critical intervention on Hardware 4 vehicles – But we stay far from the multiplication by six announced.
And for older cars, equipped with hardware 3? Nothing. They stagnate on version 12, with a now official confirmation: they will never be capable of autonomous driving without supervision. Double, there will be no magic update.
Version 13.2.9, just deployed, does not help: according to the latest data on more than 5,000 km, it does worse than the previous one. And during this time, all Tesla’s attention seems to be paid on A Robotaxi project in Austin… In a limited, ultra-controlled area, and Endowed with remote human assistanceas we explained to you. In short, a demonstrator, not a large -scale viable solution.
Faced with this, Musk promises a new model “four times more complex”, more economical in memory, supposed to arrive “in a few months”. He ensures that this update will soon merge with the main version of FSD. But if the recent history has taught us something, it is that in Tesla, soon can ever mean.
So no, Tesla will not deliver independent driving tomorrow to its customers, despite years of communication in this direction. And while the Robotaxis go around in Austin, those who have paid for the FSD since 2016 are reduced to hoping for a software miracle … or a resale before disillusionment.
