Tesla amplified a video of 98-year-old Larry driving his new Model Y on FSD Supervised for everyday trips, sharing the clip on September 9, 2026, after the interview showed how far supervised autonomy has come for an owner whose first car was a 1931 Ford Model A.
In the clip Tesla pushed out, Larry says he uses FSD Supervised to take him everywhere and leans on Grok for navigation. “It has no problems. In fact, the other day FSD stopped when a chipmunk was crossing the road,” he said, framing the system as careful enough for wildlife as well as traffic. A follow-up comparison set the Model A cabin beside his 2026 Model Y interior, underlining nearly a century between those two first-and-latest cars.
The share lands while Hardware 4 owners are getting FSD Supervised builds in the v14.3 line, including the Automatic Collision Evasion notes in v14.3.9, and while Tesla keeps treating owner videos as social proof for supervised driving rather than unsupervised Robotaxi service. Larry’s Model Y still needs a supervising driver under the product’s rules, yet his routine use is the kind of day-to-day FSD story Tesla chose to put on its own timeline.
For readers watching how FSD Supervised shows up outside tech circles, a 98-year-old treating the stack as his default chauffeur is a sharper signal than another highway montage, even as the wider unsupervised Cybercab push runs on a separate Robotaxi track in Austin.
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