The Full Self-Driving software at Tesla has hit a huge blockade. The company has been more than 110 days without a major update to its FSD system, and as a result, thousands of customers are frustrated and many are either canceling their subscriptions. The most recent radical update, 13.2.9, was released in May 2025. This disclosure is at an opportune moment when Tesla is opening FSD to new markets outside North America is underway, as it begins to guarantee breakthrough gains. The silence of the Tesla AI team has caused a heated debate among the Tesla community regarding the future of that technology and whether Tesla is indeed focusing on the robotaxi development or is neglecting the issue of updating its customers regularly.
The Growing Frustration Among Tesla Owners
Tesla owners do not sit and wait. Numerous people are publicly demonstrating their frustration and voting with their wallets. The fact that Tesla has not contacted its customers is turning into one of the primary pinch points, particularly as, when Tesla 0.06 is available on the market, in new markets, such as Australia, customers who have already bought FSD are still trapped in old technology. This is especially exasperating to the owners of Hardware 3 (HW3) cars, as Tesla does not seem to look at them as they are developing the newer Hardware 4 (HW4) technologies.
Software updates are not the only source of frustration for the community. Tesla has undertaken some important business changes in the last few years, such as the introduction of robotaxi, new lines of insurance, and even menu eateries, yet they have not led to improved sales among current users of FSD. Being out of touch with the expansion of the corporations and the satisfaction of the customers is causing subscribers to leave the FSD service, and this poses a difficult trajectory for Tesla’s recurring revenue model.
What is especially agonizing here is that Tesla had once put much attention to timelines and frequent updates regarding the progress of the FSD. At this point, consumers have no clue when a new update will come, and the distortion of the files keeps people informed about their next update, the occasional subtle clues via CEO Elon Musk on social media.
Tesla’s Strategic Shift Toward Robotaxi Development
Behind the scenes, Tesla appears to be making a calculated bet. The company is heavily investing in its robotaxi program, which uses a more advanced version of FSD with significantly different algorithms. This robotaxi FSD reportedly has four times the parameters of the regular customer version, suggesting Tesla is channeling its best AI talent and resources into unsupervised driving technology rather than incremental improvements to supervised FSD.
The strategy makes business sense from Tesla’s perspective. Robotaxi services could generate massive revenue streams, potentially worth trillions of dollars, according to some analyst projections. But this focus comes at the cost of customer satisfaction in the short term. Tesla is essentially asking current FSD subscribers to wait while the company develops technology that could eventually make their current systems obsolete.
Tesla has promised to integrate robotaxi improvements into the general FSD release, but CEO Elon Musk acknowledged the complexity of this process. The company needs to validate that improvements designed for geofenced robotaxi areas don’t cause problems when deployed to regular vehicles driving across diverse environments. This validation process appears to be taking much longer than anticipated.
What’s Next for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Technology
After the ongoing drought,, it is not in vain that there has been movement. Inn August 2025, Elon Musk gave a recent promise that FSD version 14 will be available in about six weeks, and it will have 10 times more parameters than the existing versions. This would really be an enormous advance in capability and could justify the long wait. Nevertheless, the history of meeting FSD deadlines at Musk is uneven, with numerous individuals in the community being uncertain.
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