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Tesla has discontinued<\/a> Autopilot, its basic driver-assistance system, as the company tries to boost adoption of a more advanced version of the technology that it calls Full Self-Driving (Supervised).<\/p>\n The decision comes as the company faces a 30-day suspension of its manufacturing and dealer licenses in its largest U.S. market, California. A judge ruled in December that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing<\/a> by overstating the capabilities of Autopilot and FSD for years. The California DMV, which originally brought the case and has a say over the licenses, stayed the ruling for 60 days to allow Tesla to comply by dropping the Autopilot name.<\/p>\n Autopilot was a combination of Traffic Aware Cruise Control, which sticks to a designated speed while maintaining distance with cars ahead, and Autosteer, a lane-centering feature that could steer the car around curves. <\/p>\n Tesla\u2019s online configuration site now states new cars now only come standard with Traffic Aware Cruise Control. It\u2019s not clear if current customers are affected.<\/p>\n The decision comes one week after the company said that starting on February 14<\/a>, it would stop charging a one-time $8,000 fee for the FSD software. After that, customers will only be able to access FSD through a monthly subscription of $99 \u2014 though Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote in a post<\/a> on Thursday that the subscription price will increase as the software\u2019s capabilities improve.<\/p>\n Musk believes that Tesla\u2019s newer cars will be capable of \u201cunsupervised\u201d driving, saying FSD advances will allow drivers to \u201cbe on your phone or sleeping for the entire ride.\u201d In December, he said a new version of FSD allowed the former, though texting while driving is illegal in almost all states<\/a>. <\/p>\n On Thursday, Tesla rolled out the first robotaxi versions<\/a> of its Model Y SUVs in Austin, Texas that have no human safety monitoring personnel in the cars. Those vehicles are running a more advanced version of the company\u2019s driving software, and are still followed by the company\u2019s cars for supervision.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<\/span> Tesla launched the beta version of its Full Self-Driving software in late 2020, but adoption has always lagged behind the expectations of executives like Musk. In October 2025, Tesla\u2019s chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0only 12% of all Tesla customers had paid for the software. Hitting \u201c10 million active FSD subscriptions\u201d by 2035 is one of the key \u201cproduct goals\u201d\u00a0required for Musk to receive the full payout<\/a>\u00a0of his new $1 trillion pay package. <\/p>\n Tesla first introduced Autopilot in the early 2010s after talks broke down<\/a> between Musk and Google to leverage the tech being developed by the search giant\u2019s then-nascent autonomous driving division (which eventually got spun out into Waymo). Tesla made the driver assistance system standard on all of its vehicles in April 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Across the decade-plus of Autopilot\u2019s existence, Tesla struggled with communicating the software\u2019s capabilities. The company often overpromised and made the tech seem more capable than it was, leading some drivers to become overly confident in its abilities, which in turn led to hundreds of crashes and at least 13 fatalities, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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