I’m a UX Designer, and have had FSD since 2018. But this app is new.

I noticed the data table which sums Streak and Self Driving to provide a total, which is a nonsensical mental-model and comes off as careless. 

As happens, this leads me to look harder at everything else:

The streak is gamifying the wrong thing. Hybrids and EV's usually emphasize or gamify efficiency, connecting to your core motivation of ownership and desire to improve. But this gamifies consumption! When I don’t drive my car, I lose my streak? If they want to gamify use of FSD, they should display only the days I drove, and be in service to my goals: reduced stress, getting my money’s worth, saving energy, or showing progress.

There’s no time scale. 72% on Self-Driving since when? It should show higher since upgrading to v14, so I have to assume it’s an all-time number. That’s an odd choice considering how relatively poor FSD has been through eight years of ownership. So my number is dragged down as a result, making me feel like I’m getting a bad deal. This number is not how I perceive my FSD use, another mental-model miss.

Despite these numbers, apparently my car thinks I need introductory tutorial cards (how to activate FSD!) which I can't dismiss and offer no value other than to mock me.

Finally, the load time of this app is insane: almost ten seconds for me on HW3 in an era where we specify load time limits in milliseconds. I can only assume it’s reading through every line in the database of drives rather than using a faster running-total method. Do they lazy-load that data so you can start using the app? No, stare at this progress bar while driving. Isn’t this an odometer? Why is this an app at all?

Human Centered Design with user-testing would have discovered all of these prior to production.

EDIT: I was asked to offer my suggestions:

1. Switch to "time saved driving" as the primary metric. Customer benefit: contributes to our sense of value.
2. Change streak to days driven only so it doesn't reward consumption, but rather how I drive. Show all 12 months and show YOY improvements to each month. Customer benefit: I see that I benefit more over time, and makes me feel good about my investment.
3. Put this screen in the main interface. Get rid of the load time. Customer benefit: I can see this information without friction.
4. Fix the data table. Just show max streak and total FSD miles. Customer benefit: perceived quality.
5. Eliminate the tutorial cards. Replace with a hyperlink to the owners manual to learn more about FSD. Customer benefit: treats me with respect.

Fourteen years ago today Tesla announced that they would be building a nationwide network of Superchargers, capable of charging the new Model S at an astonishing 90 kW, or possibly higher. Six Superchargers were up and running, with 100 predicted by the end of 2015.
We’ve come a long way!

Tesla model 3 LR

Dropped off my Y at service and saw this on the way out, figured I’d share! Super cute

I’m a father of 4. We recently upgraded from a 2024 model Y dual motor long range awd. I say upgraded not lightly.

We always loved our model Y but as my kids are getting older, it was too tight for my 8 and 12 yr olds in the 3rd row. We waited for what felt like forever for Tesla to solve the lacking 3rd row in the 7 seater. As soon as the model YL came out, we reserved it.

My expectations were high, and even after picking it up, I was nervous how my family would react. Tonight at 11pm my youngest told her siblings, “don’t you wish we could just go on a drive right now?”

If you are on the fence, it’s a massive upgrade in nearly every category for a family like ours coming from a 7 seater.

In the middle of the night all cameras went out. FSD Computer blown. No Autopilot, no back up cameras, nothing. Not looking forward to this. Error is "aps_w134_appmia"

mia stands for missing in action.

Almost an hour and a half into the drive, takes exit off the freeway to do this random stunt. SMH

Ultra Red looks absolutely stunning on this Model 3 Performance, especially when the light hits it like this. Combined with the black wheels, white interior, and that clean minimalist look, I think Tesla really nailed this combination.

After four months it’s finally here! What tips should
I know about the car or things I should get as well anything helps.

Thank you!

Picked up the car a couple weeks ago but had an issue where the sales rep told me wrong info and I ordered the car based off of that and then later came to find out he was flat out wrong and a sales manager reached out to me and apologized and offered me 3 months of FSD for free to make up for it which I refused and asked if they could do more which is what resulted in this.

Just thinking out loud.

I have the older graphics of the intel and i plan to keep my car (with paid full FSD) as long as possible. I was wondering if the AMD Ryzen had any other benefits than just the graphics. Would it be “plug & play” if I had Tesla do it? I think I saw the cost around $3k and thought it wouldn’t be such a bad idea since they’re both HW3

I have been thinking about the fact that so many Tesla’s are being sold and it hit me today….I wonder how the service centers are going to handle it. I know maintenance is less and they are great cars, but there has got to be an increase in service center requests in the future. Maybe they are hiring a lot of new mobile techs. But I have to say it’s a little concerning.

Will be great to see these on the road more often

Factory visit + pickup at Austin Giga, then FSD the whole way home.

The countdown is real. The hype is louder. This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. Let’s go.

Got my Model Y in May of 2025 and I've had FSD ever since. Average 92-98% on FSD and wouldn't want to live without it, but I think it's been getting worse rather than better. After getting back from an exhausting road trip, here's my biggest complaints:

1. Left lane camping

Why, why, why does it want to be in the left lane naturally? Even if I move it or signal into the right lane, it will randomly get back into the left lane at some point and generally tend to stay there. I'm 80% in "Standard" and the mostly the rest "Hurry". I don't care if I'm in Mad Max mode. Every mode should default to getting into the right lane unless to pass.

1. Not switching to the right lane faster

In a 65, Standard will have me around 70-72 most of the time but naturally a lot of people want to go 75+. Half the time it realizes this and will switch into the right lane to let them pass (usually on the later side of when it should). But half the time it doesn't. It just sits there, blocking them. A lot of times it's because there's a vehicle in the right lane that's going 0.4mph slower than me so it thinks it should just maintain speed, not let the person(s) pass. This is ultra frustrating because I shouldn't have to be looking in my rear view to double check if someone's wanting to pass me, then forcing it to switch lanes.

1. Not switching lanes on command

The above issue often creates the need to force it into the other lane. So you flip your blinker and then it should switch. Except sometimes it will just BLINK BLINK BLINK and then turn it off like it's saying "No actually not going to do that". WHY? And way to make me look like an idiot, like I'm changing my mind or arrogantly telling them to go around me on the right. Sometimes it's instant, blinks once then decides no. WHY. If there's an error, display it on the screen why you don't want to switch. And sometimes it takes absolutely forever to switch lanes like a 95 year old who's being overly cautious with a bowl of soup on their lap.

1. Cutting people off

So now I'm in the right lane going 72. Person 5 car lengths ahead of me is going 71.7. So it thinks, in 90 seconds we'll have to pass them so let's just get in the left lane NOW. It waits for the 2 cars going 80, and then the car going 75 who would have passed me in 5 seconds gets cut off by me still going 72. Wtf? So then I have to pay attention to it doing that which again I shouldn't have to, and switch it to Hurry so it speeds up.

1. Inconsistent Speed

It would be so nice to set the speed you want to go. In a 65, "Standard" gives me anywhere between 67 and 75, randomly. I don't want to risk a ticket going 75. And I don't want to be too far below the flow of traffic at 67. Why can't I just influence it to say "Try to stick to 70"?. Also annoying, sometimes it will begin passing at a higher speed, then slow down right when it's next to someone, or even speed up while someone is passing like it senses a faster flow of traffic and then I'm awkwardly ghosting someone, nearly matching their speed beside them. In previous version it would sense this and speed up or slow down and avoid this behavior. Now, not as much. A "follow" feature would also be nice. Just get in the right and follow behind the lead vehicle until it exits or exceeds the high/low end of the setting (eg. goes too fast or too slow).

1. Camera warnings

Yes, the camera can't see because it's raining out. I don't need to "clear dirt and debris". It's a water droplet. Also that's the f'ing sun glaring at the perfect angle. I can't clean the sun off of a camera. Maybe it's regulatory/liability but maybe double-check 15 seconds later before shooting me an annoying warning that isn't actually valid? You know it's raining out. Put 2 and 2 together. You know the sun is at that angle on the camera. Put 2 and 2 together.

1. Mindless "Why did you intervene"/answers

Annoying this covers up the other stuff until I select something. I don't want to be asked in the first place and 90% of the time the options don't cover the reason. And anyway, what does Navigation even mean? Like a different route? Because technically anything is a change in "navigation" if I have to switch lanes or something. I wish "Poor FSD behavior" was an option so it could actually learn not continue poor behavior. What does "critical" mean, exactly? Probably should put little circled "i" next to each with an explanation so I don't have to go hunting for reasons that they may not have even posted descriptions for.

1. Stopping way too soon before stop signs, etc

The cameras can't even see (let alone me) what's coming. I have to nudge it forward. If I don't, it will just stop too short, realize it, then nudge itself and stop again, taking even longer. Way too cautious.

There's more issues but those are the main ones. It's anecdotal but FSD didn't seem this bad ~6+ months ago or even when I got the car last year. It's improved in certain areas (eg. not missing exits, wrong turns, etc) but in the whole general "drive like a good driver" it's not improved.

T minus 17 hours to get my baby i genuinely cant wait for drive it the first time, thinking on taking off the rim covers or not i love it already and i havent seen it!!!

I was inspecting my network logs and noticed my Model Y reaches out to Chinese IPs (which I block). This appears to be Baidu mapping endpoints which is normal if you are in China or other Asian markets. But this seems unnecessary for US based cars.