TSLA is set to end one-time FSD purchases, moving fully to subscriptions for steady revenues, to cut legal risk, and reset autonomy expectations.

Tesla’s Full Self Driving program has entered a strange new phase, where the software is improving quickly, the business stakes are enormous, and the regulatory and competitive pressures are finally catching up.

This makes Musk’s latest admission incredibly strange. If the internal metric for true, safe, regulatory-grade autonomy is 10 billion miles, why on earth was the CEO promising it would launch last year when the company was mathematically nowhere near that goal?

“Mad Max mode” may sound like something out of a video game, but it is a real-life setting for cars currently plying America’s streets. And it poses genuine danger. Despite its name, FSD does not enable the car to drive itself. Rather, it is an ...

In October 2016, tech mogul Elon Musk exclaimed during a press call (per Tech Crunch) that within a year, "Our goal is, and I feel pretty good about this goal, that we'll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from L.A. to New York.

Insuring a Tesla has proven rather expensive for most owners, which was a key reason why Tesla started its own insurance business. However, things might change as Tesla's Full Self-Driving software improves. Recently, a major insurance company expressed ...

The Model Y refresh played a significant role in the decline in deliveries during the first half of 2025. The second-half sales recovery, although weaker than hoped, puts Tesla on track to improve EV deliveries in 2026. A return to growth in EVs will strengthen the investment case for buying the stock.