AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla's Full Self-Driving is about to get more conversational. In a post on X on Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said upcoming FSD releases will remember a driver's parking preferences and, within roughly three months, let owners guide the car with spoken Grok commands — telling it where to turn or where to drop them off, much like talking to a rideshare driver.
The update tackles the single most common reason drivers still reach for the wheel. Musk noted that destination parking is by far the biggest reason people now intervene with FSD, while adding that critical safety interventions are extremely rare — a reflection of how far the system has come since Tesla began publishing data like its Netherlands results showing FSD over three times safer than human driving.
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Today, when FSD pulls into a lot, it tends to grab the first open space it detects — sometimes too close to other cars or too far from the entrance. The new feature would have the car learn from a driver's past behavior instead, so it heads to the right spot at home, the office, or a school drop-off without being corrected.
Musk made the comments in response to Y Combinator partner Tom Blomfield, who praised FSD and shared a screenshot showing 96 percent autonomous usage over a 13-day streak, intervening only for a tricky garage maneuver. That kind of real-world endorsement underscores how reliable the system has become for everyday driving.
