Full Self Driving V14 navigation screen, 2026 Tesla Model Y. Camp Hasler, Three Lakes, Wisconsin. June 11, 2026. Fritz Hasler photo.
I’ve been driving my base 2026 Tesla Model Y with “Full Self Driving” V14 since May 26 — 3 months now — so here’s an update on what it can do and cannot do for me. I drove earlier versions of FSD on my 2019 Model 3 for 6+ years, … [continued]
Tesla has had more good news regarding its robotaxi rollout this past week. Nevada has decided that the company can deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the state, up from just 10 on the Las Vegas Strip. That’s a huge potential increase in vehicles. However, “Tesla representatives at the meeting … [continued]
Tesla FSD (“Full Self Driving”) recently received permission to be activated in the Netherlands. This made it the first country with FSD in Europe. My friend Dick Helders of XpengCam, who sometimes comments here on CleanTechnica, was one of the first to drive it in the country. He has a … [continued]
Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) is still not at the unsupervised level in the United States. If your car is driving itself with FSD, you are supposed to be paying attention the whole time and ready to intervene. However, many FSD users love the capability and swear by it. I … [continued]
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov recently gave a very interesting, 49-minute-long presentation at a Y Combinator event. A few days ago, I covered some of his comments from the beginning of the presentation. Getting further into it, this next topic had to be highlighted. In the video above, 16 minutes in, … [continued]
For reasons that never quite made sense to me, people get all jiggly when the conversation turns to Tesla and its so-called “robotaxis.” Some act as if the thought of a car that picks you up and drives you to your chosen destination without a human driver — nothing less … [continued]
Sometimes it’s very hard to know if Elon Musk is saying something completely idiotic and believing it or is simply lying. At the same time, people hang on every word he says and think his forecasts come from the mind of Einstein or something (in fact, one major investor has … [continued]
XPENG has been developing self-driving tech in a very similar way as Tesla for several years. In fact, while pretty much everyone else has decided radar and/or lidar sensors are needed in addition to cameras, XPENG has stuck with Elon Musk’s argument that cameras are the only sensors needed. Our … [continued]
One of our excellent commenters posted an intriguing comment this morning under an article about how robotaxi app usage is split across the US market. I’ve been following and engaged in this debate for more than a decade, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a comment quite like this. … [continued]
A video that purports to show a Tesla driver asleep behind the wheel has appeared on social media. Is it a fake?
