My dear petrol romantics, manual transmission lovers and those who still claim that "electronics in a car just die" - I have bad news. While you were still debating in 2025 whether diesel has a future (spoiler: it doesn't), the world moved forward. And not just moved - it jumped. Reports coming out of the US about the latest Tesla FSD v14 update (Supervised) are not just technical news. They are an obituary of driving as we knew it. And if you think I'm exaggerating, you're probably still using a Nokia 3310
Before you start furiously banging your keyboard and explaining to me how your driving is art, allow me to... to set up a mirror for you. We all, absolutely all, claim to be above-average drivers. If restaurant debates are to be believed, Slovenia is a land of hidden talents for Formula 1, whose careers were hindered only by conspiracy and lack of sponsors. And maybe a lack of technology Tesla FSD.
And the truth? The truth is much more banal. Most of your “driving pleasure” happens in first gear on the Ljubljana bypass, while you wipe mayonnaise off your shirt and curse the guy in the Skoda in front of you for falling asleep at a green light for a whole second. Humans are biologically programmed to pick strawberries and run from tigers, not to steer a ton and a half of metal at 130 km/h while listening to a podcast and arguing with your wife. We are distracted, emotional and tired. And that’s exactly where the cold, calculating logic of silicon comes in, to save us from ourselves. Get your tissues ready, this is going to hurt.
A technological “slap in the face” for all skeptics
Let's clear things up first. I didn't get behind the wheel of this specific update in Texas (realistically, Tesla marketing in Milan doesn't answer my emails), but when I read the analyses of leading world experts like Fred Lambert, and watching the footage of the rides, the conclusions are impossible to ignore. FSD v14 on the latest HW4 (AI4) hardware is no longer a “beta experiment” where you fear for your life. It is a system that has finally become – and this is a word I have a hard time pronouncing – human.
Elon Musk He called it “sentient.” And while Musk likes to promise to colonize Mars before breakfast, it seems he wasn’t lying this time.
“This is no longer a robot that drives on rails. This is a driver who understands the context. Acceleration is smooth, braking is no longer panicky. The car 'sees' traffic and merges into the flow with an elegance that most Slovenian drivers lack.”
From parking lot to parking lot: Science fiction has become everyday
What is that “big thing”? Point-to-point function. We're not talking about highway cruise control anymore. We're talking about the car pulling out of a parking lot, navigating the city, roundabouts, the highway, and parking at its destination. All this with the Model 3, which in the Long Range version has a 79 kWh battery and accelerates to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 4.4 seconds.
But let's leave the numbers aside. The point is in the feel. Testers report that driving style “Hurry” works exactly like the average dynamic driver drives – just above the limit, without unnecessary fuss. The car no longer enters roundabouts like a scared tourist, but like a local. Resolutely. Quickly. Safely.
Sure, it's still Level 2. That means you have to be there. You have to watch the road. But let's be honest - in 99% of situations, this computer is better at monitoring traffic than you are. It's not having a bad day, it's not looking at its phone, and it's not thinking about what's for dinner.
The Bitter Truth: Your Old Tesla Is Now Just… an Old Car
Here's where cynicism meets consumerism. If you bought a Tesla before 2024 with HW3 hardware, you've been swept away by the technological wave. The reports are clear: the new magic only works impressively on HW4. The old processors simply can't process this amount of data in a "human" way.
This is a harsh lesson for all of us. Cars have become smartphones on wheels. Your three-year-old car is “out.” Owners of older models are angry, and rightly so. They were promised that their cars would one day be robotaxis. Now they’re finding out that they’re just beta testers for technology that those with new cars will enjoy.
Mistakes? Of course there are. But look at yourself.
Is the FSD v14 perfect? Far from it. Reports mention problems returning to the right lane after overtaking - the car sometimes "dances", indicates the direction, changes its mind and then turns anyway. Funny, but this reminds me of half the drivers on the Ljubljana bypass. The difference is that Tesla will learn and fix this with the next upgrade (OTA). Your neighbor driving in the left lane at 110 km/h will never.
Conclusion: Admit defeat, the future is here
The year 2026 will be a turning point. Not because cars will fly, but because we will have to admit that as biological drivers we have become bottleneck and reason for traffic jams on the bypass. Tesla FSD v14 is proof that artificial intelligence is ripe for the roads.
For those of us who love driving, this may sound like a dystopia. But let's face it – driving in the morning rush hour is not a pleasure. It's a pain. And if a car can take me through that pain on its own while I read the news (or write this article), then I say: The wheel is yours, Elon.
Skeptics, you still have a year to go, to complainThen, like everyone else, you will quietly sit in the passenger seat and enjoy the ride.
