The Tesla owner who claimed the first zero-intervention coast-to-coast drive across the US has set out to do it again — this time across Canada.
David Moss announced the attempt on X on Sunday, posting from Horseshoe Bay in Vancouver, British Columbia, alongside travel companions Devin Olsen and Spencer.
Moss, a Model 3 owner from Tacoma, Washington, who works as “a LiDAR salesman,” has become one of the most visible advocates for Tesla‘s camera-only approach to autonomy.
The advocacy carries a certain irony as Moss works in the LiDAR business as a 3D solutions manager at Stonex USA, selling laser scanners, mobile mapping systems, and photogrammetry software.
LiDAR is the sensing technology that most of Tesla‘s autonomy rivals consider essential and that Tesla has pointedly rejected in favor of cameras alone.
The contrast was widely noted across the Tesla community after his US drive, framed as a LiDAR salesman vouching for a system that uses none.
“Canada Coast To Coast Attempt Begins!” Moss wrote.
The group is driving Moss’s 2025 Model 3, equipped with AI4 hardware, on Tesla Full Self-Driving version 14.3.3.
The planned route runs more than 3,700 miles, or nearly 7,000 kilometres, from British Columbia through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick, ending in Nova Scotia.
The goal is to complete the entire crossing with zero interventions.
“We’re here to do it first. We’re here to do 100%,” Moss said in a video posted to X. “We’re not all about speed. We’re doing standard profile the whole way, zero interventions.”
An API dedicated to the trip, built on the FSD database maintained by Tesla owner and content creator Omar Qazi (@WholeMars), showed the Model 3 near Abbotsford, British Columbia.
As of press time, the car had travelled 76 of a planned 3,700 miles with zero interventions, for a self-driving rate of 100%.
A Sequel to the US Record
The Canada run follows the drive that made Moss a fixture in the Tesla community.
On the last day of 2025, Moss said he completed “the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive,” covering 2,732.4 miles from the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
He made the trip in two days and 20 hours on FSD V14.2, reporting zero disengagements of any kind, including for parking and at Superchargers.
Moss has said FSD was the primary reason he bought the car, describing the electric powertrain as almost an afterthought by comparison.
The announcement post drew nearly 17 million views and recognition from Tesla‘s leadership.
Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla‘s VP of AI software, wrote on X: “World’s first fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive, done with Tesla self-driving v14. Congrats and thank you @DavidMoss!”
Chief executive Elon Musk reposted Moss’s announcement with the caption “cool,” while former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy called it “the first 100% autonomous coast-to-coast drive on Tesla FSD V14.2.”
That cross-country run was part of a longer streak.
Moss logged 12,961 intervention-free miles across 30 states over roughly seven and a half weeks before the streak ended in January in rural Wisconsin, where snow-covered roads and temperatures in the teens forced a human takeover.
Tesla later featured the US trip as an official customer story in March, describing it as “one of the first verified coast-to-coast drives across the U.S. using Full Self-Driving (Supervised) with zero interventions.”
What Canada Adds
The Canadian attempt raises the difficulty.
At more than 3,700 miles, the planned route is roughly 1,000 miles longer than the US crossing.
It also pushes FSD across a wider range of conditions and a newer software version, 14.3.3, than the V14.2 build that handled the December drive.
Moss said the trip would run nearly nonstop, with Supercharger meetups planned along the way.
The attempt is backed by sponsors including EVject and TesCam Studio, with the team selling commemorative shirts through a dedicated merchandise site.
