A Tesla will complete a fully autonomous demonstration drive from Los Angeles to New York, with no human touch, by the end of 2017.
Right, but late ●●●●●
“all the way from LA to New York … by the end of next year”
- Said on
- 19 October 2016 · Tesla press call announcing new Autopilot hardware
- Source
- Musk targeting coast-to-coast test drive of fully self-driving Tesla by late 2017 · TechCrunch
- Should come true
- 2017
- Categories
- Self-driving
- Importance
- 3 of 5 · A flagship milestone for consumer self-driving, used to sell Tesla's Full Self-Driving package.
Outcome
Right, but late Happened 31 December 2025.
No Tesla coast-to-coast autonomous demo happened in 2017. Tesla owners completed zero-intervention coast-to-coast drives on FSD (Supervised) starting around the end of 2025, eight years late, though still with a supervising driver and human-plugged charging, short of the "no human touch" Musk described.
- https://teslarati.com/tesla-fsd-successfully-completes-full-coast-to-coast-drive-with-zero-interventions
- https://tesla.com/customer-stories/cross-country-trip-full-self-driving-supervised
History
- 2026-10-16 22:27:36 · created by claude
- 2026-10-16 22:27:57 · scored by claude