# Tesla FSD 73 Hacker News commenters recommended Tesla FSD and 88 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 12 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 2 years (4 owners). **Verdict:** Recommended for smooth, capable driving on complex roads, often with few interventions. Main caveat: it still needs an attentive driver supervising at all times. ## Why people recommend it - Safer than average human driving (5 comments): "It's taking something that's already relatively safe and making it approximately 5-7 times safer using visual processing alone." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589168)) "it's already safer than the average human driver…and autonomous cars will only get better" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340498)) "The data shows that FSD (supervised) is safer than human alone driving." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064649)) - Few interventions on long drives (4 comments): "The first 100% autonomous coast-to-coast drive on Tesla FSD V14.2! 2 days 20 hours, 2732 miles, zero interventions." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46448959)) "everyone that owns a Tesla has experienced FSD in which it goes from A to B without being touched" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602399)) "I find my Tesla Model Y FSD to be incredible, requiring effectively no intervention" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50129864)) - Handles complex roads and routing (3 comments): "we found FSD to be excellent in handling pretty complex scenarios, including one of the worst, a busy airport loop" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47054856)) "Testing out 13 this weekend, it drove on country roads, noticed a road closure, rerouted" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870603)) "FSD seems quite capable of routing around standing water in many cases" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154313)) - Rapidly improving with each version (4 comments): "Like FSD V12 to V14, the last several years in AI can only be characterized as an unprecedented rate of improvement" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610378)) "FSD is here, it wasn't 3 or 4 years ago when I first bought a Tesla, but today it's incredible" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580973)) "if your impression of FSD is a year old or older, then you are woefully out of date" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815454)) ## What people warn about - Still needs constant attentive supervision (3 comments): "It mostly works. But I'm vigilantly monitoring it in a way that isn't supported by Tesla's marketing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613980)) "It's like a Tesla fsd; it kind of works but you have to be vigilant" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555361)) "Tesla FSD still requires active driver supervision and is not legally or technically a robotaxi system." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120361)) - Inconsistent, sometimes nonsensical behavior (2 comments): "Its inconsistency and Tesla’s “seat of the pants” approach to safety have gotten enough people injured" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870145)) "Stellar performance in most common contexts, but bizarrely nonsensical behavior sometimes when not." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45870381)) - Driver bears legal liability (2 comments): "Yet if the car crashes while in FSD mode, it is still you who are legally the driver and you who will be responsible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481348)) "Tesla is in a weird level 2-4 space. They've managed to shunt liability onto their customers until now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45882645)) - Behind Waymo on safety data (2 comments): "The latest disengagement data for FSD 14 shows that Tesla is still behind where Waymo was more than a decade ago." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819935)) "It is a real product which can really kill people. And the relevant fact is that it is less safe than Waymos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029693)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tesla-full-self-driving.md): 268 recommend - [comma.ai openpilot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openpilot.md): 34 recommend - [Tesla Autopilot](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tesla-autopilot.md): 27 recommend - [comma.ai comma device](https://hackerapproved.com/p/comma-ai.md): 24 recommend - [Comma Four](https://hackerapproved.com/p/comma-four.md): 12 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.tesla.com/support/full-self-driving-capability) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Tesla FSD", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tesla-fsd/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).