Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software has just crossed another eye-opening milestone, this time in the real world. According to data shared by longtime Tesla watcher Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt), a 2025 Tesla Model 3 Long Range RWD completed more than 5,000 miles on FSD without a single human intervention.
To put that into perspective, Merritt noted the distance is roughly equivalent to driving from Miami, Florida, to Anchorage, Alaska — without ever touching the steering wheel or pedals. The numbers come directly from the vehicle’s updated FSD statistics panel and show 5,008.3 miles driven entirely by the car, with zero miles driven by the human occupant. The route mix was roughly 10% city streets and 90% highway driving.
The data belongs to Tesla owner David Moss (@DavidMoss), whose Model 3 is running FSD (Supervised) V14. These stats were pulled from Tesla’s new “Self-Driving Stats” tracking panel, which arrived alongside FSD 14.2 last month. The panel offers a clearer look at how much drivers are actually letting FSD take the wheel in everyday conditions, rather than short demo clips or cherry-picked scenarios.
While Tesla owners have shared impressive hands-off drives before, this result significantly raises the bar. Just weeks ago, a Cybertruck owner made waves after logging over 1,200 miles on FSD without interventions. This Model 3’s performance more than quadruples that distance, suggesting meaningful improvements in consistency and long-distance reliability.
The timing is notable. Tesla recently began testing fully autonomous Robotaxis in Austin, running an “unsupervised” version of FSD with no driver, safety monitor, or passengers inside the vehicle. CEO Elon Musk has said Tesla has “pretty much solved” unsupervised autonomy, and long, uninterrupted supervised drives like this help reinforce that narrative. The latest publicly available iteration of FSD, version 14.2.1, even lets drivers text behind the wheel when road and traffic conditions allow.
FSD’s progress is also drawing attention beyond Tesla’s fanbase. Earlier this week, a South Korean lawmaker publicly praised the system after experiencing it firsthand in Seoul, calling it comparable to how most people drive and describing it as feeling close to “a completed technology.”
Of course, FSD remains a supervised system, and Tesla is clear that drivers must remain attentive at all times. Still, a 5,000-mile stretch without intervention is difficult to dismiss. As Tesla continues refining FSD V14 and pushing toward wider autonomy, examples like this highlight just how far the system has come — and why the debate around self-driving technology is heating up again.
