Musk promises FSD will soon avoid potholes — the same pledge he made in 2019
Elon Musk said over the weekend that FSD will soon be able to avoid potholes, but the promise dates back to 2019 — and the feature is still listed only as an 'upcoming improvement' in the latest v14.3.8 release notes, not yet shipped.
Elon Musk posted on X that Tesla's FSD will soon be able to steer around potholes. But pothole avoidance isn't new — Musk first promised to 'definitely' build it back in April 2019 after an owner requested it, and said in 2020 that Tesla was labeling potholes and bumps for the system to react to.
The feature is currently listed only as an 'Upcoming Improvement' in release notes for FSD (Supervised) v14.3.4 and v14.3.8, part of the rolling 2026 Summer Update — meaning it hasn't actually shipped yet.
Tesla's latest FSD stack learns from millions of clips of human driving rather than hard-coded rules, so it could plausibly mimic pothole-avoidance behavior without explicit programming. Still, Electrek's reporting notes the irony that Musk is repeating a promise he first made seven years ago.
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