We’ve crossed yet another one of Elon Musk’s self-driving thresholds. Tesla’s fleet has now driven over 10 billion miles using its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) system, according to the company's latest safety page.

However, this milestone doesn’t mean unsupervised driving is imminent. FSD remains a Level 2 autonomous system, requiring constant human oversight. Tesla’s terms of service place liability on vehicle owners rather than the tech giant itself.

The implications are significant: hundreds of crashes involving Tesla’s partially autonomous features and dozens of fatalities have raised questions about safety and responsibility. Yet, Tesla continues to tout FSD as safer than human driving, despite experts’ doubts over its methodology.

Robotaxi fleets in Dallas and Houston use unsupervised vehicles, but legal hurdles are likely to delay broader consumer access. Musk predicts unsupervised driving will arrive when it's legally permissible—likely the fourth quarter of this year—or maybe another goalpost will shift.