A Tesla Model S just completed a fully autonomous drive across the United States. The 2024 Model S, running Full Self-Driving (FSD) version 14.2.2.3 on HW4 hardware, traveled 3,081 miles from Los Angeles to New York City with zero human interventions.
The journey took 58 hours and 22 minutes of driving time, averaging 64 miles per hour. Charging stops added another 10 hours and 11 minutes.
The run was led by Alex Roy, a veteran of Cannonball Run records. In December 2024, Roy's team made a coast-to-coast run requiring 32 interventions. A subsequent New York-to-Los Angeles run saw only 5 minutes and 20 seconds of human intervention-99.78% autonomy. Now, zero interventions across 3,081 miles.
The rules prohibited any manual intervention, testing whether FSD could handle end-to-end autonomous driving across diverse road conditions.
This achievement highlights Tesla's neural network-based approach versus competitors like Waymo, which rely on pre-mapped, geofenced areas. However, a single flawless trip does not prove statistical safety across millions of miles. Highway driving remains easier for autonomous systems than complex urban environments.