Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Cars With HW3 Chip Won't Achieve Unsupervised FSD, Touts 'Distilled' V14 Instead

Musk pledges to fix 2019-2023 Teslas that can't fully self drive

Tesla still doesn’t have a solid pathway for how to give Hardware 3 cars Full Self-Driving (FSD) capabilities, based on what Elon Musk said during the company’s latest earnings call. The automaker has known for quite a while that its vehicles equipped with Hardware 3 aren’t capable of unsupervised FSD, even though the company built the system specifically to give its cars the ability. Tesla used Hardware 3 on cars manufactured from 2019 until ea…

Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Cars With HW3 Chip Won't Achieve Unsupervised FSD, Touts 'Distilled' V14 Instead

Elon Musk confirms that HW3 chip-equipped cars won't achieve unsupervised autonomy, offers to upgrade existing cars to HW4 tech.

Tesla confirmed HW3 can’t do Unsupervised FSD but there’s more to the story

Tesla has officially confirmed that early vehicles with its Autopilot Hardware 3 (HW3) will not be capable of unsupervised Full Self-Driving, while extending a path forward for legacy owners through a discounted trade-in program. The announcement came by way of Elon Musk in today’s Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call. Our LIVE updates on the Tesla Earnings Call will take place here in a thread Follow along below: pic.twitter.com/hzJeBitzJU — TESLARATI …

Tesla Says It Will Need To Build Micro Factories To Retrofit Old Cars For FSD

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Hardware 3-equipped cars will not be able to achieve Full Self-Driving without upgrades on Tesla's mini assembly lines.

Tesla will build factories just to retrofit HW3 cars it said could do FSD, but can't

Tesla said every car had the hardware to drive itself. That was false, so it will build factories in every city to retrofit millions of cars.