Tesla releases Full Self-Driving version 14 update
Tesla has begun rolling out its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) version 14 software update to owners with Hardware 4 vehicles, marking the first major upgrade in nearly a year. The update incorporates features inspired by the company's Robotaxi program and addresses several driving scenarios. CEO Elon Musk had hyped the release, though it faced a delay due to a software bug.
Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) program saw its last significant update with version 13 in late 2024, rolled out to vehicles equipped with the latest Hardware 4 (HW4) computers. Despite Elon Musk's repeated claims that the automaker was close to achieving unsupervised self-driving, no major changes followed for almost a year. The company attributed the pause to efforts on its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, with FSD v14 now integrating lessons from that initiative into consumer vehicles.
Musk initially promised the update for September 2025 but announced a delay to late Monday night after discovering a bug. As of October 7, 2025, HW4 owners are beginning to receive the software download.
The release notes highlight several enhancements. New Arrival Options allow users to choose parking preferences such as Parking Lot, Street, Driveway, Parking Garage, or Curbside, with settings persisted per destination. The system now handles emergency vehicles by pulling over or yielding, and integrates navigation and routing into the vision-based neural network for real-time responses to blocked roads and detours.
Other improvements include an additional Speed Profile for customizing driving style, better management of static and dynamic gates, offsetting for road debris like tires or branches, and refined handling of unprotected turns, lane changes, vehicle cut-ins, and school buses. FSD v14 also enhances system fault recovery, adds automatic narrow field washing for the front camera, and alerts for interior windshield residue affecting visibility.
User interface updates enable starting FSD with a touchscreen tap and adjusting settings like Speed Profile and Arrival Options from the center display visualization. A new SLOTH Speed Profile offers lower speeds and more conservative lane selection than the existing CHILL option, with driver profiles influencing maximum speeds more strongly. Brake Confirm for engagement is now defaulted off.
Upcoming features focus on overall smoothness, sentience, parking spot selection, and quality. The update emphasizes that FSD (Supervised) requires constant driver attention and does not make vehicles autonomous.
Electrek notes that the changes add Robotaxi-inspired parking capabilities and performance upgrades after a year of reported regressions, potentially yielding a 2-3x improvement in miles between critical disengagements—bringing Tesla to around 1,200 miles, though far short of the 10,000 needed for limited unsupervised services or 700,000 for Level 5 autonomy safer than humans. Data collection over coming weeks will better assess the impact.
A top comment highlights ambiguity in features like neural network integration for detours, suggesting some may still rely on scripts rather than full end-to-end AI. It praises FSD as a solid Level 2 assistance system but criticizes marketing it toward Level 4 autonomy, noting hardware limits in HW4 and older HW3 vehicles.