Overview
- At Tesla’s shareholder meeting, Elon Musk said the company is almost ready to let drivers look away to text, framing it as an FSD update arriving in a month or two.
- Musk also claimed Tesla is a few months from unsupervised FSD, moving beyond today’s Level 2 driver-assistance toward functionality akin to Level 4.
- Texting while a vehicle is moving is illegal in most jurisdictions, and Musk did not detail how Tesla would secure approvals or assume liability for disengaged drivers.
- Tesla said it will “look at the data,” as new internal reporting separates Autopilot and FSD mileage, while outside figures from an Austin robotaxi pilot indicate crashes far more frequently than Tesla’s aggregate comparisons.
- Musk set product targets that include Cybercab robotaxi production by April next year with no steering wheel or pedals, and shareholders approved his goal‑contingent pay package reportedly worth up to $1 trillion over 10 years.