Tesla’s Full Self Driving clocks over 8 billion miles cumulatively

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, an advanced driver-assist technology requiring driver supervision, has reached a significant milestone by accumulating over 8 billion miles driven. This achievement moves Tesla closer to CEO Elon Musk’s long-standing prediction that 10 billion miles of FSD training data would enable scalable unsupervised autonomous driving. Since Musk’s initial 2013 promise of achieving fully autonomous (SAE Level 5) driving within a few years, the system has evolved from being called Autopilot to Full Self-Driving, now explicitly requiring supervision. FSD currently supports maneuvers such as lane changes, navigation, steering, parking, and features like Smart Summon, which allows the vehicle to autonomously navigate parking lots to reach the owner. Tesla’s approach to autonomy relies primarily on visible-light cameras and 2D maps, contrasting with competitors like Waymo and Cruise that use lidar and 3D maps. The rapid growth in cumulative miles—from 6 million five years