Overview

• Tesla pushed FSD v14.1.2 to Early Access users and began expanding distribution, marking the first broader wave of the v14 rollout.
• Release notes introduce the ‘Mad Max’ speed profile with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes than Hurry, plus a conservative ‘Sloth’ profile below Chill.
• Ashok Elluswamy said Mad Max is designed to shine in denser daytime traffic, with early user videos praising quicker acceleration, confident lane changes, and highway speeds up to about 85 mph.
• Tesla says driver profiles now more strongly influence behavior and confirms v14 remains limited to Hardware 4 vehicles with additional v14-series updates planned.
• Some coverage flagged videos showing the system exceeding posted limits and performing rolling stops, recalling prior scrutiny of FSD, which remains a supervised driver-assistance feature requiring driver attention.