Tesla announced on Tuesday that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system was able to drive 362 miles (582 km) without requiring any intervention.
A new video posted on X showed a Model Y driving in California, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, with the company stating that “7 hour road trips aren’t so bad when your Tesla does all the driving.”
The driver completed the entire journey without touching the steering wheel. The trip was interrupted once to charge at around the 242-mile mark.
Below is the video shared by Tesla on X:
The EV maker is preparing to unveil a new version of the FSD by the end of September “if testing goes well”, according to CEO Elon Musk.
Musk wrote on X earlier this month that “Tesla is training a new FSD model with ~10X params and a big improvement to video compression loss.”
Over the past weeks, Musk has said the FSD software will have a “step change improvement” as the company prepares to publicly release its robotaxi service, also scheduled for next month.
The ride-hailing service launched in Austin in late June and is currently operated through a fleet of altered Model Ys, which feature a specific, fully autonomous-grade version of full-self driving — the Robotaxi FSD.
Additionally, Tesla’s first vehicle “that drives itself from factory end of line all the way to a customer house was delivered on June 27 — a day ahead of the schedule given by the CEO.
The Model Y made its way from the Texas Gigafactory to the customer’s house, being fully operated by the full self-driving and with no one present inside the vehicle.
The FSD is available for purchase in the US, with a single payment of $8,000, or as a monthly subscription of $99.
Tesla has launched a version of the system in China earlier this year and is still “awaiting regulatory approval in Europe,” according to Musk, who has reaffirmed it during the latest earnings call.
By then, the chief executive said that “half of Tesla owners who could use [the FSD] haven’t tried it even once,” with CFO Vaibhav Taneja adding that “a car being ten times safer should be a motivator.”
Tesla claimed it had completed over 4.5 billion cumulative miles driven with the FSD as of June 30.
On Wednesday, a JD Power study said that Tesla Superchargers are the most reliable EV chargers in the US on a 1,000-point scale, with a customer satisfaction’s score of 709 points.
