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The recurring promise of full self-driving "next year"
- Apr 2026 – May 2026: Q1 2026 call pushes unsupervised FSD for owners to "probably" Q4 2026; May 18 "widespread by end of year" remark
- Jan 2026: First rides with no monitor inside; seven new cities targeted for first half of 2026
- Jul 2025: Ride-hailing for "probably half the population of the U.S." by year-end
- Jun 2025: Austin Robotaxi launches with a safety monitor on board
- Jan 2025: Unsupervised full self-driving as a paid service in Austin in June
- Jan 2022: I would be shocked if we do not achieve full self-driving safer than human this year
- Jul 2020 – Oct 2020: The thread's 2020 instance: "Very close" to Level 5, then a limited FSD beta
- Feb 2018: Coast-to-coast deadline missed; new estimate of "three months, six months at the outside"