[AutonomousVehicles] tesla releases full self driving version 14

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Tesla has released Full Self Driving Version 14. Below is an article about
it.

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Article Link:
https://electrek.co/2025/10/07/tesla-fsd-v14-release-notes/

Article Text:

Tesla releases FSD v14, first major update in a year, here’s what it can do
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Fred Lambert
 | Oct 7 2025 - 2:30 am PT
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Tesla has started to release its (Supervised) Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14
update, its first significant update in a year, to customers.

Here are the full release notes:

In late 2024, Tesla began rolling out FSD v13 to owners with the latest HW4
computers installed in their vehicles.

It has been the last significant update to Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving”
program despite CEO Elon Musk again claiming that the automaker was on the
verge of solving “unsupervised self-driving.”

Tesla’s excuse for not releasing any significant update for almost a year
was that the team was instead working on its “Robotaxi” service in Austin,
Texas.

FSD v14 has been described as Tesla using what it learned from the Robotaxi
program and rolling it into software for its consumer vehicles.

Musk has been hyping the update for the last few months. He first said it
would come in September, but he revealed that Tesla found a “bug”, which
delayed the release to late Monday night.

Tesla HW4 owners are now starting to download the update.

Here are the full release notes for FSD v14:

Tesla FSD v14 release notes
Added Arrival Options for you to select where FSD should park: in a Parking
Lot, on the Street, in a Driveway, in a Parking Garage, or at the Curbside.
Added handling to pull over or yield for emergency vehicles (e.g. police
cars, fire trucks, ambulances).
Added navigation and routing into the vision-based neural network for
real-time handling of blocked roads and detours.
Added additional Speed Profile to further customize driving style
preference.
Improved handling for static and dynamic gates.
Improved offsetting for road debris (e.g. tires, tree branches, boxes).
Improve handling of several scenarios, including unprotected turns, lane
changes, vehicle cut-ins, and school buses.
Improved FSD’s ability to manage system faults and recover smoothly from
degraded operation for enhanced reliability.
Added automatic narrow field washing to provide rapid and efficient front
camera self-cleaning, and optimize aerodynamic wash at higher vehicle
speeds.
Added alerting for residue build-up on the interior windshield that may
impact front camera visibility. If affected, visit Service for cleaning!
Upcoming Improvements:

Under your supervision, Full Self-Driving (Supervised) can drive your Tesla
almost anywhere. It will start from a parked position, make lane changes,
select forks to follow your navigation route, navigate around other
vehicles and objects, make left and right turns and park at your
destination. You and anyone you authorize must use additional caution and
remain attentive. It does not make your vehicle autonomous. Do not become
complacent.

Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is enabled on your vehicle. To use the
feature, press the Start Self-Driving button on the UI, or press the right
scroll wheel button once. You can disable Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in
Autopilot Settings.

UI Improvements
Start Self-Driving with a tap of the touchscreen from Park, or any time
during your drive.
Adjust settings like the Speed Profile and Arrival Options directly from
the Autopilot visualization on the center display.

Speed Profiles
FSD (Supervised) will now determine the appropriate speed based on a mix of
driver profile, speed limit, and surrounding traffic.

Introduced new Speed Profile SLOTH, which comes with lower speeds & more
conservative lane selection than CHILL.
Driver profile now has a stronger impact on behavior. The more assertive
the profile, the higher the max speed.
Right scroll-wheel up/down now adjusts Speed Profile setting rather than
your precise max speed offset selection in mph/kph.

Arrival Options
You can now select an arrival option such as Parking Lot, Street, Driveway,
Parking Garage and Curbside for Robotaxi-style drop offs.
Your preferences for arrival options and preferred parking positions are
persisted for each destination.
Our reasoning model will assess the suitable options for your destination
and pick an intuitive default.

Brake Confirm for the Start Self-Driving button is now defaulted off. When
disabled, Start Self-Driving will not require you to press and release the
brake to confirm engagement.

You can enable Brake Confirm in Autopilot > Brake Confirm.

Electrek’s Take
This is exactly what we expected. Tesla is adding some of the features of
Robotaxi, such as improved parking capabilities at your destination, and
much-needed performance upgrades after a year of regression based on
crowdsourced data.

As I previously stated, I expect at best a 2 to 3x improvement in miles
between critical disengagement, which sounds great until you realize that
that brings Tesla to a max 1,200 miles between critical disengagement and
the automaker needs to be closer to 10,000 miles for a limited unsupervised
ride-hailing service, and then 700,000 miles to be level 5 safer than
humans as promised.

We will have to wait a few days, and ideally a few weeks, to gather enough
data to gauge the significance of those improvements.

As usual, I like to point out that FSD would be truly impressive and likely
a praised product if it were sold and marketed for what it is: a level 2
driver assistance system.

However, we have to compare it against what Tesla is selling and claims it
will become: a level 4 fully autonomous driving system – something it is
not.

FSD still requires driver attention at all times and can make very dumb and
dangerous mistakes.

Furthermore, Tesla is clearly starting to reach the limits of HW4, even
though it will likely need to ~10x performance from FSD v14. It means that,
as Tesla already admitted with HW3, the automaker has sold “Full
Self-Driving” on cars that don’t have the hardware to make it a reality.
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