Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system still has a long way to go before it can claim to be truly autonomous. Instead, the company continues to raise the bar on what it considers "safe unsupervised self-driving" and how far away it is from achieving that goal.
Last year, Tesla made headlines by launching its robotaxi service in Austin and San Francisco - but it was still a supervised system requiring human oversight. CEO Elon Musk promised an end to this requirement by the end of 2025, which never happened. Instead, he now claims that FSD needs approximately 10 billion miles of data to achieve true unsupervised self-driving.
The latest claim from Musk comes as Tesla currently has around seven billion miles on its dashboard. It raises questions about why Musk was so confident in his previous timeline - and whether the goalpost is being moved more often than not.
Last year, Tesla made headlines by launching its robotaxi service in Austin and San Francisco - but it was still a supervised system requiring human oversight. CEO Elon Musk promised an end to this requirement by the end of 2025, which never happened. Instead, he now claims that FSD needs approximately 10 billion miles of data to achieve true unsupervised self-driving.
The latest claim from Musk comes as Tesla currently has around seven billion miles on its dashboard. It raises questions about why Musk was so confident in his previous timeline - and whether the goalpost is being moved more often than not.