Andrej Karpathy, a former director of AI at Tesla, says a milestone long discussed inside the firm’s autonomy program has been reached this week.
In a new post on X, David Moss, who describes himself a LiDAR salesman, says he completed a fully autonomous coast-to-coast drive using Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving software without a single intervention.
“I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast-to-coast fully autonomous drive. I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles). This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2 with absolutely 0 disengagements of any kind, even for all parking, including at Tesla Superchargers.”
Andrej Karpathy, who also co-founded OpenAI, calls the drive a landmark achievement and tied it to a long-standing internal goal.
“The first 100% autonomous coast-to-coast drive on Tesla FSD V14.2. 2 days 20 hours, 2732 miles, zero interventions. This one is special because the coast-to-coast drive was a major goal for the autopilot team from the start.”
Karpathy notes that reaching zero interventions required years of detailed iteration.
“A lot of hours were spent in marathon clip review sessions late into the night looking over interventions as we attempted legs of the drive over time — triaging, categorizing, planning out all the projects to close the gap and bring the number of interventions to zero.”
The milestone signals a potential turning point for Tesla’s autonomy roadmap, particularly as the company pushes toward unsupervised driving and broader deployment.
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