AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla's Full Self-Driving is good enough now that one longtime tester says it handles about 76% of his driving miles — and the short list of things still keeping it "Supervised" reads less like a wall and more like a punch list on the way to v15.
In a detailed owner review on Teslarati, Joey Klender laid out the five remaining friction points he runs into on FSD v14, the build that launched roughly a year ago and has since iterated rapidly through releases like v14.3.9, which shipped Automatic Collision Evasion, and v14.3.10, his current version. Far from a takedown, the piece is a roadmap — and it arrives with Tesla already tying the next major jump, v15, to round-the-clock Robotaxi operation.
The Punch List
First is speed-limit recognition: FSD still doesn't always slow enough for school zones or sudden drops, such as a 45-to-35 transition. Second is parking — execution has improved sharply, but the car sometimes picks awkward spots and can't yet choose a specific charger at a destination. Third is navigation, where FSD occasionally plots an over-cautious or technically illegal turn, though the Summer Update's Preferred Routes feature has already started smoothing that out.
Fourth is highway polish: the system can brake or change lanes a little abruptly near exits and sometimes lingers in the passing lane. Fifth is road-condition handling — big bumps, potholes, and manhole covers still trip it up, with Tesla reportedly working on pothole-specific improvements. Notably, every one of these is a refinement of behavior the car already performs, not a capability it lacks. We saw the system's underlying competence firsthand when Tesla FSD braked mid-intersection and avoided a T-bone crash.
Why v15 Matters
The reviewer's verdict is striking for how positive it is: he calls FSD "really good," says highway driving is its strongest suit, and cites Tesla's data that FSD Supervised is 4.1 times less likely to crash than a human driving manually. Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy has said v15 will bring earlier hazard prediction and still-better collision avoidance — precisely the categories on the punch list.
That connection is the whole story. Tesla has explicitly linked v15 to expanding Robotaxi into true around-the-clock service, the same frontier the company is pushing as it weighs night driving and added sensing for its robotaxis. Clear the punch list, and the gap between "Supervised" and "unsupervised" narrows from a leap to a step. For a technology many doubted would reach this point, a to-do list of five polish items — authored by a daily user who trusts the car with three-quarters of his miles — is about as bullish a status report as Tesla could ask for.
