# What Tesla “Full Self Driving” V14 Still Can’t Do > Source: > Published: 2026-08-26 22:49:08+00:00 # What Tesla “Full Self Driving” V14 Still Can’t Do *Support CleanTechnica's work through*[a Substack subscription](https://cleantechnica.substack.com/subscribe),[on Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/cleantechnica), or[on Stripe](https://cleantechnica.fundjournalism.org/contribute/). Help us produce all of the[high-quality, original content we publish week after week](https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/14/10/)despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles.I’ve been driving my base 2026 Tesla Model Y with “Full Self Driving” V14 since May 26 — 3 months now — so here’s an update on what it can do and cannot do for me. I drove earlier versions of FSD on my 2019 Model 3 for 6+ years, so I have some perspective on the matter. On June 9th I had an accident that put my Model 3 to rest. I’m 86 and had been planning that my Model 3 would be my last car. However, it had now-obsolete Hardware 3, which wouldn’t run FSD 14 — FSD V14 was in use on newer cars and had been getting rave reviews. Due to the accident, I was forced into buying a new car. For me it had to be a battery electric. I do a couple of cross-country trips every year and I know that Tesla is still the only brand of EV that can be driven on all the US Interstates without worrying about finding a working charger. Also, I was addicted to FSD V12 and couldn’t wait to try V14. I find Elon Musk to be a despicable racist, but I make my buying decisions based on the merit of the product, not on the politics or behavior of the management. I’ve spent most of the past 3 months driving my Model Y near a little town in Northern Wisconsin, with only a couple of trips on Interstates across the state and into the Michigan Upper Peninsula. Therefore, my review is based on that experience. Compared to the most recent version of V12, V14 is amazing. Most of the time it is like turning over the driving to a professional driver who is exercising all of his/her skills. It drives the car precisely in the middle of the lane, it makes accurate wide turns at intersections, it moves to the left just the correct amount to avoid pedestrians, bikes, parked cars, and even big construction vehicles. It navigates perfectly through and around complex situations with construction barrels. It navigates roundabouts/rotaries perfectly. It brakes and stops for deer near and crossing the road. It anticipates pedestrians about to cross at a crosswalk and stops for them, etc., etc. A biggie: for the first time, FSD handles the beginning and end of your trip. Sitting in my garage, I verbally ask to navigate to Walmart Rhinelander, a town 30 miles distant. I tap the brake and “Start Self-Driving” by pressing the right steering wheel scroll wheel. There is also a blue “Start Self-Driving” button on the screen, but that is harder to reach. Without touching the steering wheel, brake, or accelerator, my Model Y backs out of the garage, makes a three-point turn, and exits my tree-lined gravel driveway. It then makes all the necessary route changes, slowing for sharp turns, obeying the speed limit in towns, stopping for stop signs, proceeding when traffic allows, stopping for stop lights, following cars at a comfortable distance, passing slower moving vehicles on multi-lane roads, and returning to the right-hand lane. When I get near Walmart, I get a choice between Pull Over, Street, Driveway, and Parking Lot. In the case of Walmart, it will automatically choose the Parking Lot. It then finds a parking spot at Walmart, backs in, and stops. While the beginning of trips from your driveway or parking place are done almost always perfectly, the arrival is more complex and not necessarily optimal. It will not find the parking place closest to your preferred door at Walmart, and it doesn’t know that I have handicapped plates. On the return trip, it may not find my driveway and will not park in my garage. On earlier versions of FSD, the right scroll wheel would allow you to set an exact speed. Now the right scroll-wheel allows the choice between Mad Max, Hurry, Standard, Chill, and Sloth. Mad Max will give you a speed up to 20 mph over the speed limit (don’t expect sympathy from the police), Hurry will give you speeds up to ~7-10 mph over the speed limit, Standard gives you 5 mph over the speed limit (no ticket in most places), Chill holds to the speed limit, and Sloth keeps your wife happy while watching for deer or antiques stores. I usually choose Hurry or Standard depending on how lenient the police are in that area. I am usually comfortable with my choice and am no longer twiddling the scroll-wheel like I did on earlier software versions. If I come to an intersection with no stop sign or stoplight and no traffic, my car turns and proceeds without stopping. However, with a stop sign, my car comes to a complete stop and waits about 1.5 seconds before proceeding. If there are passing cars, it will start up immediately after the last car passes. Perhaps just a minor annoyance for me, as I would normally proceed immediately after the complete stop. If I can determine there is no cross-traffic, I usually give slight pressure on the accelerator to eliminate the 1.5 second pause. What would I expect for the future? Parking in the optimum spot is messy, and this could be a tough nut to crack. Also, my car won’t always find someone’s driveway, including my own. I would like to be able to choose a specific parking spot, including my garage, but I can’t do that presently. Driving on country gravel, blacktop roads, highways, and Interstate highways, FSD V14 is almost always perfect. I have almost never had to make a safety related intervention. I wonder if Tesla could get Level 5 (autonomous driving) approval for, say, just Interstate highways. That would be very useful because it is when you would most likely want to go to sleep, text, or read a book. Notice the bike on a rack in the back of my Tesla Model Y in the photo above. I am pleased that FSD still works going forward with V14. That was not true of V12. However, your car will not back up under control of FSD V14 even with no bike on the rack. The camera above the rear license plate is at least partially obscured by the bike and rack. Tesla mounts two rear-facing cameras on each front quarter panel, but they can’t see anything close by and directly behind the car. I don’t know how this could be remedied without another camera mounted high enough to see over the rack and the bicycles. In the last version of FSD V12 that I used on my 2019 Model 3, my car would occasionally get in the wrong lane at a stop light. This is not a totally trivial matter, you only know for sure if the right-hand lane is a turn lane when you come up to the light and see the arrow on the pavement. Human drivers occasionally make the same mistake. I had hoped that the latest version of FSD, V14.3.7, would have fixed this. However, driving yesterday through little Iron Mountain in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, my car ignored the right turn arrow on the pavement and stayed in the right lane as it went straight through the intersection. It would appear that this is a map omission problem. Obviously, automatic navigation would not work without a complete detailed accurate road map of the whole United States. I surmise that those roadmaps do not include the specification of the turn lanes at all stop lights. If they were included, FSD V14 would not be making this mistake. May 26, making my first stop in my brand-new Model Y at the COSTCO in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, I was surprised to see that the COSTCO was not on the Google map, it was still shown as an empty field. I was even more surprised when inside I learned that the COSTCO had been there for three years. Without more accurate, more up-to-date maps that include turn lane markings at stoplights, Level 5 (unsupervised) driving automation will not be possible. **If you find any of my articles helpful to you, please use my referral link when buying a new Tesla:** [https://ts.la/arthur73734](https://ts.la/arthur73734) (Be sure to use it when you make your order). Tesla keeps changing the program, but here’s the latest: If you are buying a new Tesla Model 3 or Y and use my link, you will get two months of free Full Self Driving (a ~$200 value) on top of the one month that comes free with every new Model Y right now. This will get you a total of 3 months free Full Self Driving. 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